Webinar: What Does Inclusion Mean in the World of Research?

This announcement originally appeared on Social Science Space here

What are journal editors, funders, and publishers doing to support researchers of all backgrounds – specifically those who have been underrepresented, unheard, and underprivileged? What impact does this effort have on the research environment and even for the research itself? And what can we learn from each other to enable new changes that address shortcomings? In a free hour-long webinar on July 28, a funder, editor, and publisher will share what they are doing to make a more inclusive research environment, challenges they face along the way, and ideas for future improvement.

Following their brief presentations, the audience will offer questions, ideas, and discussion to collectively identify new policies and practices.

This webinar is sponsored by SAGE Publishing (the parent of Social Science Space) and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences. It takes place at 4 p.m. BT/11 a.m. ET/8 a.m. PT on July 28.

Moderator:

Elizabeth R. Cole is professor of psychology, women’s and gender studies, and Afroamerican and African studies at the University of Michigan. Her scholarship applies feminist theory on intersectionality to social science research on race, gender, and social justice. She is coauthor (with Andrea Press) of Speaking of Abortion: Television and Authority in the Lives of Women (University of Chicago Press, 1999). She is a past president and a fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (American Psychological Association Division 9), and a consulting editor for Psychology of Women Quarterly.

Panelists:

Christopher Barnhart, the session’s funder representative, is currently a health science policy analyst in the National Institutes of Health’s Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office, where he supports and promotes the health of sexual and gender minority communities through analysis of relevant grant portfolios, manuscript and report authorship, strategic planning, workshop development, outreach coordination, and representation. A pharmacologist and toxicologist, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, examining how environmental toxicants and individual genetic factors may interact to affect the developing nervous system.

Meng-Chuan Lai, the session’s editor, is a staff psychiatrist, clinician scientist and O’Brien Scholar within the Child and Youth Mental Health Collaborative at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children, and University of Toronto. He is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry, and Graduate Faculty at the Institute of Medical Science and Department of Psychology. His research delineates how sex- and gender-related factors act as risk, protective, and modulating mechanisms for the behavioral presentation and adaptation, clinical recognition and diagnosis, neurobiology and etiologies, of autism and co-occurring conditions.

Caroline Porter is executive publisher of journals at SAGE Publishing. She plays a key role in executing SAGE’s strategic objectives around the management, development and growth of its journals business. She sits on the steering group of SAGE’s global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Research taskforce, and is a member of SAGE UK’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council. She also sits on SAGE’s Research Integrity Group and is a trustee of the Committee on Publication Ethics.