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Are you looking for data on gender or racial disparities in funding, best practices to host more inclusive meetings, testimonials and insights from diverse scientists, or examples of institutional actions to support mental health and well-being? Find all this and more on the searchable ALBA database of over 1000 resources, curated and categorised by topic, type and group identity.

With this database, we hope to foster an environment of awareness and learning, support individuals and organisations in their DEI efforts, and promote best practices and tools to achieve equity and inclusion. 

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eLife Latest: July 2023 update on our actions to promote equity, diversity and inclusion

This sixth report highlights eLife's accomplishments from the first half of 2023 and outlines their planned actions for the remainder of the year.

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Unconscious bias
Disability & Neurodiversity
Gender & sexual diversity
Gender equity
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Gender Inclusive Methods in Studies of STEM Practitioners

Authors find that problematic approaches to gender in surveys can be classified into 5 main themes—treating gender as white, observable, discrete, as a statistic, and as inconsequential.

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Data
Journal articles
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Designing equitable STEM education: Guidelines for parents, educators and policy-makers to reduce gender/racial achievement gaps

Visual-spatial training and values affirmation are two techniques that make for more equitable STEM outcomes and have been shown to close racial/gender gaps in science and mathematics achievement.

Best practices & tools
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Disability & Neurodiversity
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Moving forward: from the passive Leaky Pipeline to the Hostile Obstacle Course

“Obstacles are not the inevitable consequence of poorly maintained infrastructure; instead, they are barriers that have often been deliberately — or at the very least unconsciously — put in place and sustained.”

Opinions & insights
Unconscious bias
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I worried my cerebral palsy would halt my progress in science—but I found a path forward

"The experience was disheartening: I was hoping to pursue a career in science, but I started to wonder whether that would be possible if I had trouble completing simple lab experiments."

Journal articles
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Disability & Neurodiversity
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