UBC Science is dedicated to providing staff, researchers, post-docs and faculty with the support they need to fulfill their potential, and to promoting a diverse community. Explore networking, support, mentoring and career resources for members of underrepresented groups--including women, racialized, Indigenous, LGBTQ+ faculty and faculty with disabilities--at all stages of their career.
We would like to acknowledge that we are located on the unceded and occupied traditional territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of xʷməθkwəyəm ̓ (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səlílwətaɬ (Tsleil H -Waututh).
University-Wide EDI Initiatives
- Indigenous peoples' human rights through the Indigenous Strategic Plan and the Inclusive Action Plan
- Faculty equity and inclusion: UBC Academic and Provost
- Human Resources website on Respectful Environments statement and process for resolving conflicts
- Trans, Two-Spirit and Gender and Sexuality task force to provide strategic direction to the leadership
Faculty of Science EDI Committees
- Getting started with a departmental EDI Committee with the Indigenous Self-Assessment Toolkit and the Inclusion Action Toolkit
- Effective Practices for Academic leaders
- Workshops, books and other resources to help individuals better understand basic principles of EDI
- Self-guided learning and reflections to enhance personal understanding about EDI
- Equity and Inclusion Office Glossary of key terms in EDI
- Science Student Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Funds
- Anti-Racism Initiative Fund
- Equity Enhancement Fund
- EIO Skylight Science EDI Fund. For more info, email skylight@science.ubc.ca.
- Equity & Inclusion Scholars Program
- Anti-Racism Initiative Fund
- Vivien Srivastava Childcare Funding
- Faculty of Science Early Career Inivitation Award
Inclusive Teaching in Science
- Skylight and Inclusive Teaching at UBC
- Resources on Indigenous engagement in curriculum and teaching at Indigenous Initiatives (CTLT)
Research
- Support for conducting research in collaboration with Indigenous communities at IRSI
- Federal Dimensions Pilot and implementation at UBC to Identify and eliminate systemic obstacles for people in research
- Resources and workshops on equity considerations in research at VPRI
- Canada Research Chairs UBC Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plans and report
- Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Computer Science and Engineering
- BC Office of the Human Rights Commissioner on the importance of disaggregated demographic material for equity, inclusion and human rights
- Canadian Women in Mathematics
- Association for Women in Mathematics
- Computing Research Association
- COACH - Programs to enhance representation in Engineering and Science
- Committee to Encourage Women in Physics - Canadian Association of Physicists
- Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology
- Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Science, Trades and Technology
- Association for Women in Science
- The Role of Professional Societies in STEM Diversity article
Faculty and Staff Support
- Equity Inclusion Office resources available to support faculty and staff
- Vancouver/Lower Mainland BIPOC Counsellors at Healing in Colour
- Creating a Respectful and Inclusive Workplace for Employees with Disabilities
- Human Resources Employee and Family Assistance Plan for Couselling Support Plan
- IBPOC Connections (affinity groups for Indigenous, Black, People of Colour)
- UBC IGNITE Book Club for faculty
- Information hub for Indigenous Faculty, Staff and Students
- UBC Discrimination Policy
- Parental leave and adoption leave information for Faculty of Science
- Mentoring of junior faculty by tenured faculty in the Faculty of Science (processes, principles and policies)
- Faculty of Science Statement on principles in faculty review. Principles on merit pay and performance salary adjustments
Promotion and Review Resources
- Framework for Educational Leadership faculty to demonstrate effectiveness in teaching and evidence of impact
Recruitment Resources and Reports
- Faculty of Science Guidelines and Checklist on hiring
- Unconscious bias in faculty and leadership recruitment: A literature review
- 2019 Faculty diversity report (by race and gender) for the Faculty of Science
- Peer reviewed paper on Empirically Testing a Three-Step Intervention to Increase Faculty Gender Diversity in STEM
- Peer reviewed paper on how faculty hiring committees reproduce whiteness and practical suggestions for how they can change
- Peer reviewed paper on Race, racialization and Indigeneity for faculty in Canadian universities
Student Support
- Equity Inclusion Office resources available for students
- Student advocacy and ombuds office
- Indigenous graduate students support
- UBC Graduate Studies Office and policies and procedures related to graduate supervision
- UBC Graduate Studies student health and well-being website and graduate student online community
- The UBC Trans & Non-Binary Student Guide
- Indigenous student support resources
- Counseling, mental health and wellness
- List of anti-racism support resources for UBC students
- Student financial support (bursary program)
- UBC Physics & Astronomy Launchpad: a program for students interested in applying research-based graduate programs
- UBC Graduate Student Office Professional Development opportunities
- UBC Graduate Studies - Graduate and post-doctoral student procedure for leave of absence
- NSERC: Paid parental leave for students and post-doctoral fellows
- Expectations document and agreement between graduate students and faculty supervisors
- UBC Science student advising
- Center for Accessibility at UBC
- UBC Accommodation policy that lays out the process for obtaining accommodations
- Academic concessions within the Faculty of Science
- Science Peer Academic Coaching within the Faculty of Science
- Career mentoring for grad and post-doc within the Faculty of Science through the Vivien Srivastava workshops
EDI Events
EDI Reports and Monitoring
Safety
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