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| Topic | Title | Type | Source | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | How I record accessible videos for teaching | Blog | Dr Stephanie Zihms Website | 2020 | https://stephaniezihms.wordpress.com/2020/09/22/how-i-recording-accessible-videos-for-teaching/ |
| Accessibility | Using alt text to make science Twitter more accessible for people with visual impairments | Article | Nature | 2020 | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19640-w |
| Accessibility | NaviLens | Webpage | NaviLens | 2025 | https://www.navilens.com/en/ |
| Accessibility | Planning virtual and hybrid events: steps to improve inclusion and accessibility | Article | Geoscience Communication | 2024 | https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Planning-virtual-and-hybrid-events%3A-steps-to-and-Doran-Dutch/edd5eac52d9424715075156fee0d7e4a2499b476 |
| Chronic Illness | Adjusting to (Academic) Life with a Chronic Illness by Stephanie Zihms | Blog | Voices of Academia | 2020 | https://voicesofacademia.com/2020/10/23/adjusting-to-academic-life-with-a-chronic-illness-by-stephanie-zihms/amp/ |
| Colonialism | Colonialism still influences the earth sciences today — and that’s a big problem for research | Web article | The Verge | 2022 | https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/4/22865758/decolonizing-earth-sciences-paleontology-fossil-record?fbclid=IwAR35lVIaRTgiIwsmj2_DBPTm_tWtL-LNdS1Kg0i6_aW5NU75ECIkuM1sByg |
| Colonialism | Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity | Article | Nature | 2021 | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01608-8 |
| Colonialism | Scientometric Trends in Myanmar Amber Research at the Palaeontological Association (PalAss) Annual Meeting 2020 | Webinar | Pal(a)eoScientometrics | 2020 | https://paleoscientometrics.github.io/talks/2020-12-19-PalAss/ |
| Colonialism | Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology | Article | Nature | 2021 | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01460-w |
| Colonialism | Exploring parachute science in analytical geoscience | Blog | EGU | 2021 | https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gmpv/2021/12/01/parachute-science-and-access/ |
| Diversity | Interventions to prevent pandemic-driven diversity loss | Article | Nature | 2021 | https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00310-8 |
| Accessibility | Guides & Tutorials for Digital Accessibility | Webpage | University of South Carolina | 2022 | https://www.sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/digital-accessibility/guides_tutorials/index.php |
| Disability | Between a rock and a workplace | Article | Nature | 2021 | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00775-4 |
| Disability | Professionally held perceptions about the accessibility of the geosciences | Article | Geosphere | 2016 | https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/article/12/4/1154/196037/Professionally-held-perceptions-about-the |
| Disability | Making geoscience fieldwork inclusive and accessible for students with disabilities | Article | GeoScienceWorld | 2019 | https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/article/15/6/1809/574966/Making-geoscience-fieldwork-inclusive-and |
| Diversity | Hostile Workplaces Drive Minorities from the Geosciences | Article | Eos | 2021 | https://eos.org/articles/hostile-workplaces-drive-minorities-from-the-geosciences?mkt_tok=OTg3LUlHVC01NzIAAAGBZwoReuG8jWOa2filUCB1mJg2YTYTpz9A7z2D00Rj4-hld3p-l7fODRDlztmeY3coIj07K43THmPJyGQE3ZKvKZ5zB9zq7rm17wwP9EXg |
| Diversity | Diverse Voices in the Aquatic Sciences | Digitial article | Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) | 2020 | https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1539-6088.diverse-voices-aquatic-sciences |
| Diversity | Why women are leaving the mining industry and what mining companies can do about it | Digitial article | McKinsey | 2021 | https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/metals-and-mining/our-insights/why-women-are-leaving-the-mining-industry-and-what-mining-companies-can-do-about-it |
| Diversity | 7 Leadership Lessons Men Can Learn from Women | Digitial article | Harvard Business Review | 2020 | 7 Leadership Lessons Men Can Learn from Women (hbr.org) |
| Diversity | Gender Equity Insights 2021 | Report | Australian Government / Curtin University / BankWest | 2021 | BCEC WGEA Gender Equity Insights 2021 Report.pdf |
| Diversity | Scientists from historically excluded groups face a hostile obstacle course | Article | Nature | 2021 | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00868-0 |
| Diversity | Moving Beyond the Business Case for Diversity | Article | Eos | 2022 | https://eos.org/opinions/moving-beyond-the-business-case-for-diversity?utm_source=EosBuzz&mkt_tok=OTg3LUlHVC01NzIAAAGCq3qKqmBLF4enyAURebiPWeuUl5rkqf2-JP-uZUuIMk6SLijwj6F9hL6SEm32wqb_Gn90p0Qgx6733oVAKEbf1v8JUc3A1JlmcUEupziM |
| Diversity | The Gollum Effect: The Issue of Research Opportunity Guarding in Academia | Article | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | 2022 | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.889236/full |
| Diversity | One More Time: Why Diversity Leads To Better Team Performance | Web article | Forbes | 2024 | https://www.forbes.com/sites/roncarucci/2024/01/24/one-more-time-why-diversity-leads-to-better-team-performance/ |
| Diversity | Scientists from historically excluded groups face a hostile obstacle course | Article | Nature Geoscience | 2022 | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00868-0 |
| Diversity | How to deliver a safer research culture for LGBTQIA+ researchers | Article | Nature | 2023 | https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01400-7 |
| Diversity | Reimagining STEM Workforce Development as a Braided River | Article | Eos | 2021 | https://eos.org/opinions/reimagining-stem-workforce-development-as-a-braided-river |
| Diversity | To diversify the scientific workforce, postdoc recruitment needs a rethink | Article | Nature | 2023 | https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01740-4 |
| Diversity and Inclusion in STEM | The impact of the APPG on Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) in STEM’s recommendations | Web article | Institute of Pysics (IOP) | 2021 | https://www.iop.org/about/blogs/impact-APPG-diversity-inclusion-recommendations |
| Diversity and Inclusion in STEM | Black Absences in Green Spaces | Web article | The Ecologist | 2019 | https://theecologist.org/2019/oct/10/black-absence-green-spaces |
| Diversity and Inclusion in STEM | Why a lack of equity in the UCAS process means inequality bookmarks school education | Web article | British Science Association | 2022 | https://www.britishscienceassociation.org/blog/why-a-lack-of-equity-in-the-ucas-process-means-inequality-bookmarks-school-education |
| Ethnic background | The time tax put on scientists of colour | Article | Nature | 2020 | https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01920-6 |
| Ethnic background | Diversity in UK Polar Science Initiative Race Impact Survey Report | Report | Birtish Antarctic Survey (BAS) | 2021 | https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/publication/diversity-in-polar-science-race-impact-survey-report/ |
| Fieldwork | Safety & Belonging in the Field: A checklist for educators | Article | EarthArXiv | 2021 | https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/2607/ |
| Fieldwork | Barriers to fieldwork in undergraduate geoscience degrees | Article | Nature | 2020 | https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-020-0022-5 |
| Fieldwork | Fieldwork and disabled students: discourses of exclusion and inclusion | Article | Journal of Geography in Higher Education | 2007 | https://doi.org/10.1080/0309826042000242495 |
| Gender equity | Opinion: In the wake of COVID-19, academia needs new solutions to ensure gender equity | Article | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) | 2020 | https://www.pnas.org/content/117/27/15378?etoc= |
| Gender equity | Structural change in research institutions: Enhancing excellence, gender equality and efficiency in research and innovation | Report | European Union | 2012 | https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/dff78961-40a9-41cd-940a-a4a5afa8ed5f |
| Gender equity | Gender equality in the geosciences: is it a numbers game? | Webpage | EGU | 2016 | https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2016/06/24/gender-equality-in-the-geosciences-is-it-a-numbers-game/ |
| Gender equity | To advance equality for women, use the evidence | Web article | Nature | 2022 | https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01045-y |
| General EDI | School of Earth Sciences Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Statement | Webpage | UCD | 2021 | https://www.ucd.ie/earthsciences/edi/ |
| General EDI | Breaking the glass ceiling in diversity, equity, and inclusion in geosciences | Blog | EGU | 2022 | https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/nh/2022/04/22/breaking-the-glass-ceiling-in-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-in-geosciences/ |
| General EDI | DEI Assessment: What Is It, and Why Should You Run One? | Web article | Peoplism | 2023 | https://www.peoplism.com/blog-post/dei-assessment |
| General EDI | Unleashing the power of inclusion | Report | Deloitte | 2017 | https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/about-deloitte/us-about-deloitte-unleashing-power-of-inclusion.pdf |
| General EDI | Planet. People. Mining. | Podcast | Allison Coppel | 2025 | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwgdghLZEY9rzTzNQNXB7X3cJ1ay135cN |
| General EDI | Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias | Book | Colombia University Press | 2024 | https://cup.columbia.edu/book/uncharted/9780231203630/ |
| General EDI | PhD training looks like UK universities’ next crisis | Web article | Research Professional News | 2024 | https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-views-of-the-uk-2024-may-phd-training-looks-like-uk-universities-next-crisis/ |
| General EDI | Journalism Initiative on Gender Peace and Security (JiG) | Report | Rutgers University | 2025 | https://gbvjournalism.org/ |
| General EDI | International Women in Mining Resources | Webpage | Women in Mining | 2025 | https://internationalwim.org/resources/ |
| General EDI | Project Dandelion | Webpage | Project Dandelion | 2025 | https://www.projectdandelion.com/ |
| General EDI | The Geological Society EDIA Resources | Webpage | The Geological Society | 2025 | https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/about-us/edia/ |
| General EDI | IOM3 EDI Resources | Webpage | Institute of Materials, Minerals, & Mining | 2025 | https://www.iom3.org/about-us/governance/equity-diversity-inclusion-edi.html |
| General EDI | IAPG Tools | Webpage | International Association of Promoting Geoethics | 2025 | https://www.geoethics.org/tools |
| General EDI | Imperial College London ESE EDI Podcast | Podcast | Imperial College London | 2024 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I90EbrA9P4&list=PLQ7dRjqDjebcg8OkowQA-gpR9OF8bIRMp&ab_channel=EarthScienceandEngineeringatImperial |
| General EDI | Geological Collectons Group EDI Resources | Webpage | Geological Collections Group | 2025 | https://www.geocurator.org/resources/179-edi-geoscience-collections |
| General EDI | Geological Collectons Group EDI Symposium 2025 | Youtube Video | Geological Collections Group | 2025 | https://www.geocurator.org/events/19-past-workshops-and-seminars/181-prog-archive-2025/182-edi-symposium |
| General EDI | EDIG 2020 Conference | Youtube Video | EDIG | 2020 | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTSbo2wJxJxq6XQeaegqLuRg93JMbgU72 |
| General EDI | EDIG 2022 Conference | Youtube Video | EDIG | 2022 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJRcvObG_y0&list=PLTSbo2wJxJxo9fi2LWFHw8iz9i7JIZhy5&ab_channel=EDIGConference |
| Indigenous Research/Colonialism | For better science, increase Indigenous participation in publishing | Article | Nature | 2022 | https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00058-x |
| Intersectionality | Applying an intersectionality lens to expand equity in the geosciences | Article | Journal of Geoscience Education | 2020 | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10.1080/10899995.2019.1675131?needAccess=true |
| LGBTQIA+ | The Challenges of Being LGBTQIA+ in Earth Sciences | Blog | EGU | 2020 | https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gmpv/2020/09/09/the-challenges-of-being-lgbtqia-in-earth-sciences/ |
| Neurodiversity | UCD CHAS Neurodiversity Project | Webpage | UCD | 2025 | https://www.ucd.ie/chas/about/committees/neurodiversity/#d.en.553505 |
| Racism | Challenging racism in the geosciences | Blog | EGU | 2022 | https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gmpv/2022/01/13/challenging-racism-in-the-geosciences/ |
| Resources | Diversity in Polar Science Resources page | Webpage | BAS | 2022 | https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/diversity-in-uk-polar-science-initiative/diversity-in-uk-polar-science-resources/ |
| Surveys | How to measure Diversity and Inclusion for a stronger workplace | Webpage | Survey Monkey | 2022 | https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/diversity-and-inclusion-guide/ |
| Terminology | Equity vs. Equality: What’s the Difference? | Webpage | George Washington University | 2022 | https://onlinepublichealth.gwu.edu/resources/equity-vs-equality/ |
