Resources

Click on an article to find out more about BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabilities, women, and inclusion and diversity in biology, conservation, and other STEM subjects.
BIPOC and Ethnic Minorities

Race, inclusivity and environmental sustainability

Towards greater diversity in conservation
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'Black women who bird' take the spotlight to make their presence known

Seizing opportunities to diversify conservation
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10 things that the scholarly community can do to stand in solidarity

There is no place for racism in birding

This is what the race gap in academia looks like

The broken pipeline - barriers to black PhD students accessing Research Council funding

Empowering Latina scientists

Cognitive reserve and racial privilege in STEM

How do we change a whole sector? Colonialism in conservation nature is the cause of institutional racism - by Mya-Rose Craig

Are there two different versions of environmentalism, one “White,” one “Black”?

Ethnic discrimination in “global” conservation

‘Racism dictates who gets dumped on’: how environmental injustice divides the world

Climate change is environmental racism

Why are Britain’s green movements an all-white affair?

Black AF in STEM Twitter list


Disabilities

Let COVID-19 expand awareness of disability tech

Accessibility suffers during pandemic

Disability inclusion enhances science

Climate concerns and the disabled community

Out of sight, out of mind?

The climate revolution must be accessible - this fight belongs to disabled people too

Science must rise up to support people like me

Celebrating scientists with disabilities

Our disabilities have made us better scientists

It’s time to stop excluding people with disabilities from science

A culture of neglect: climate discourse and disabled people

Feeling overwhelmed in academia? You are not alone

Mental health in academia: an invisible crisis
LGBTQIA+

Being queer in the jungle: the unique challenges of LGBTQ scientists working in the field

In fieldwork, other humans pose as much risk to LBTQIA+ people as the elements

Queer in STEM organizations: workplace disadvantages for LGBT employees in STEM related federal agencies

Discrimination drives LGBT+ scientists to think about quitting

The Lab and Field LGBTQ Archives | Alex Bond

Coming out in STEM: Factors affecting retention of sexual minority STEM students

Male LGBQ students more likely to leave STEM majors than their heterosexual peers: study

STEM needs to face up to its problems with LGBT diversity

Carrying the PRIDE message to the ends of the earth

Pride in STEM resources


Women

“We must inspire women to fight for nature” - Lucy McRobert discusses sexism in conservation 

The decline of women’s research production during the coronavirus pandemic

Women’s research plummets during lockdown - but articles from men increase

Relying on women, not rewarding them

The pandemic and the female academic

Opinion: gender diversity leads to better science

Elite male faculty in the life sciences employ fewer women

Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students

Women for Conservation | Luwi Nguluka



Inclusion & Diversity

Working together: A call for inclusive conservation

Conservation needs diverse values, approaches, and practitioners

Diversity and inclusion in conservation: a proposal for a marine diversity network

Consciously combating unconscious bias

Science benefits from diversity

Diverse nature: does nature conservation represent society?

How to be an inclusive leader through a crisis

Volunteer field technicians are bad for wildlife ecology

Risk without reward

Making diversity programs more effective

Natural diversity: how taking the bio- out of biodiversity aligns with conservation priorities

Why conservation should embrace a diversity of people and values
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