Ten simple rules for pushing boundaries of inclusion at academic events.

Autor: Hall SM; Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.; Deep Learning Indaba, London, United Kingdom., Kochin D; Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom., Carne C; Independent Researcher, Cape Town, South Africa., Herterich P; Independent Researcher, Cape Town, South Africa., Lewers KL; Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America., Abdelhack M; Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.; Arabs in Neuroscience, Toronto, Ontario, Canada., Ramasubramanian A; Independent Researcher, Cape Town, South Africa., Michael Alphonse JF; Department of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom., Ung V; ISYEB UMR 7205 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, MNHN, SU, EPHE-PSL, UA. Botanique, Paris, France., El-Gebali S; SciLifeLab-Data Centre, Uppsala, Sweden.; FAIRPoints, Gothenburg, Sweden., Currin CB; Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria.; Computational Neuroscience Imbizo, Cape Town, South Africa.; Deep Learning Indaba South Africa, Durban, South Africa., Plomp E; Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands., Thompson R; Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom., Sharan M; OLS (formerly Open Life Science), Wimblington, United Kingdom.; The Alan Turing Institute, London, United Kingdom.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PLoS computational biology [PLoS Comput Biol] 2024 Mar 01; Vol. 20 (3), pp. e1011797. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Mar 01 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011797
Abstrakt: Inclusion at academic events is facing increased scrutiny as the communities these events serve raise their expectations for who can practically attend. Active efforts in recent years to bring more diversity to academic events have brought progress and created momentum. However, we must reflect on these efforts and determine which underrepresented groups are being disadvantaged. Inclusion at academic events is important to ensure diversity of discourse and opinion, to help build networks, and to avoid academic siloing. All of these contribute to the development of a robust and resilient academic field. We have developed these Ten Simple Rules both to amplify the voices that have been speaking out and to celebrate the progress of many Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity practices that continue to drive the organisation of academic events. The Rules aim to raise awareness as well as provide actionable suggestions and tools to support these initiatives further. This aims to support academic organisations such as the Deep Learning Indaba, Neuromatch Academy, the IBRO-Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo, Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), Arabs in Neuroscience, FAIRPoints, and OLS (formerly Open Life Science). This article is a call to action for organisers to reevaluate the impact and reach of their inclusive practices.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2024 Hall et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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