The first initiative of the DEI Committee has been to draft a collaboration Code of Conduct.
One of our goal is to raise awareness on DEI matters within the collaboration and make it a part of our collaboration culture. See a list below of speakers invited at our collaboration meetings
We are gathering resources on existing DEI initiatives within collaborations/institutes to devise an action plan that can help our collaboration thrive at the EDI level and stay tuned with the best practices. We are setting up a system through which we can analyze the impact of our actions, via for example annual surveys, regular tracking of distribution of talks and staffing of management positions etc. We have performed a demographic survey that we intend to renew yearly and are working on a climate survey. The DEI Committee has prepared onbarding documents for newcomers (if you are a new member of the collaboration, follow this link to access the onboarding page).
We are putting particular emphasis on showcasing the work of early career researchers at collaboration meetings and at conferences, provide resources for developing a mentoring network within the collaboration, as well as provide appropriate and anonymous channels to report issues within the collaboration (if you are a member of the collaboration, follow this link to access the anonymous reporting page).
List of DEI-speakers at our collaboration meetings:
- First Collaboration meeting Oct 2023 : Dr. Elizabeth Litzler, Director of the Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity at the University of Washington “Creating Inclusive Cultures in STEM”
- Second Collaboration meeting June 2024 : Dr. Alexandra Pedersen, manager for EDII Capacity Development at the McDonald institute ``Harnessing Demographic Data for DEI’’
- Third Collaboration meeting January 2025 : Prof. Jess McIver, Canada Research Chair in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics, professor at UBC “Building equity, diversity, and inclusion for a global physics collaboration”