Research Justice

This is the second of three articles from the Addressing Privilege and Anti-Blackness in Research Culture workshop, part of the Asking Different Questions program. You can read the first one here: Update: Impacts of Anti-Blackness in Research Culture.

UC Davis graduate students: you can apply now to participate in a quarter-long workshop on how conduct research grounded in a commitment to justice. Participants will earn one unit graduate course credit, get a certificate of completion, and be eligible for research funds. Sessions will take place on Wednesdays from 10-11 am throughout Fall quarter (online).

This is, to quote UC Davis Vice Chancellor Renetta Tull, a moment of “uncomfortable reckoning.”

This Asking Different Questions working group invites participants to consider how white supremacy persists in our research culture at a virtual discussion on July 14 from 1-2pm.  (Note: This event is currently at capacity, but we are accepting waitlist registrations. Register for the waitlist here.)

In the wake of the Covid outbreak, our interdisciplinary science initiative, Asking Different Questions. hosted a discussion on crafting the “new normal” of research culture. As part of the Asking Different Questions initiative, we hosted a community of scholars dedicated to addressing long standing inequities in research and research culture. 

Wednesday, May 20th 2-3 pm via Zoom

RSVP here: https://forms.gle/c1Az1xUttVouyw428 

What will be the “new normal” for our research practices? I invite you to join me at our next Asking Different Questions meeting to discuss how this moment offers us new ways of thinking about our research motivations, practices, and directions. What skills and tools will we need to move forward? How is the pandemic shifting our sense of what research questions matter most? 

How can UC Davis create research cultures that value deep equity and inclusion? Asking Different Questions has answers. 

The Feminist Research Institute is ready to bring workshops on science and culture to your classroom, lab, speakers series, colloquia, student group, office, or department. The Asking Different Questions series gets to the roots of the problem to address how we can change the way we research, learn, and teach so that all people feel included in the enterprise of science.

Read the Asking Different Questions project report.

Asking Different Questions: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Science is funded by National Science Foundation Innovations in Graduate Education grant. Co-PIs are Sara Giordano, Sarah McCullough, and Kalindi Vora.

We are excited to announce the official launch of the working group for "Asking Different Questions: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Science.” Asking Different Questions is what we will be calling the work conducted under the NSF IGE award: Pathways to Inclusion in STEM (Co-PIs Sara Giordano, Sarah McCullough, and Kalindi Vora). This working group will m