Many people enter STEM careers with goals of enacting change in the world. But along the way they often feel alienated from their original motivations. This course will look at why this happens by teaching students about how scientific practice retains roots in white supremacy, colonialism, and patriarchy. Students will learn how these systems of oppression shaped norms of science and what they can do to create more equitable scientific practices.
Asking Different Questions in Climate Science is a seminar for climate scientists and researchers more broadly who seek to integrate equity more deeply into their research. Participants will learn how to more deeply integrate socio-cultural factors into their work. Topics covered include how historic bias still influences current scientific practices and how to address this, conducting meaningful community-engaged research, working with tribal nations, improving modeling through deeper incorporation of equity, and other relevant areas.
FRI Undergraduate Advisory Board and staff member Elaina Legg presented a poster at the UC Davis 34th Annual Undergraduate Research, Scholarship & Creative Activities Conference on April 28.
Take a look at what we've been up to by reading her abstract and checking out by her poster!
In this excerpted interview, Interim Co-Director Dawn Sumner (professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences) and Asking Different Questions scholar Maya Cruz (PhD candidate in Cultural Studies and Science and Technology Studies) explore the cultural and scientific significance of a viral image of Mars. Chiefly, how can we continue to center questions of care, responsibility and accountability in our scientific practices?
Director Kalindi Vora and Associate Director Sarah McCullough had the opportunity to share recent FRI work with attendees at the second STS Futures panel discussion. You can watch their talk, "The Science We Are For: Feminist Antiracist STS Approaches to STEM," which explores the origins and goals of the Asking Different Questions research training program, as well as other emerging research in the field.
Join FRI and the Asking Different Questions research training program in Spring 2021. This quarter-long workshop is grounded in a commitment to social justice, and welcomes researchers who seek to better incorporate their values into their scholarship. Programming will take place on Fridays from 12-12:30 pm during Spring Quarter. Register here.
UC Davis graduate students can apply now to participate in the Asking Different Questions Scholars program for Spring Quarter 2021. This quarter-long research training workshop is grounded in a commitment to social justice, and welcomes researchers who seek to better incorporate their values into their scholarship. Programming will take place on Fridays from 12-1:30 pm.
Asking Different Questions Scholars and Seminar Participants
Research Grant Call for Proposals
The Feminist Research Institute welcomes proposals for research, discussion groups, events, workshops, or other projects that applies the material in the Asking Different Questions research training series or the Asking Different Questions seminar.
The Feminist Research Institute is proud to present the full collection of Asking Different Questions research training videos to help support researchers interested in better integrating social justice into their scholarship.
Join Feminist Research Institute Director Kalindi Vora and enroll in WMS 201, a graduate seminar Winter 2020 about how to integrate social justice values into scientific research design. Graduate students from all fields are welcome!
WMS 201: Asking Different Questions: Feminist approaches to scientific research and design
Thursdays 2:10-5pm
CRN: 44279
Instructor: Dr. Kalindi Vora
Starting in fall quarter of 2020, Feminist Research Institute Associate Director Sarah McCullough and the rest of the Asking Different Questions research team launched a series of workshop sessions that train researchers how to integrate social justice values into their scholarship.
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).
