Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) should be central considerations when planning and supporting any scientific community. Our resources on this topic include blog posts and tip sheets to help you to nurture more inclusive communities.

DEI blog post series

In 2018, a group of the CEFP2017 Fellows comprised of Jennifer Davison, Josh Knackert, Marsha Lucas and Rosanna Volchok created a series of blog posts focused on issues of diversity, equity and inclusion as scientific community managers.

DEI tip sheets

The DEI project team comprised of Kate Baker, Ellen Bechtol, Rayna Harris and Camille Santistevan from the CEFP2019 cohort created a first set of DEI tip sheets focused on four different areas in which scientific community managers can prioritize making their work more inclusive. The tip sheets are intended to provide starting points for further reflection and reading.

DEI tip sheet: Inclusive Marketing

by Kate Baker, Ellen Bechtol, Rayna Harris, Camille Santistevan

April 21, 2020

This DEI tip sheet helps community managers consider inclusive marketing strategies that ensure new content is representative of our communities, and builds trust within them and beyond.

DEI tip sheet: Member recruitment

by Kate Baker, Ellen Bechtol, Rayna Harris, Camille Santistevan

April 21, 2020

This DEI tip sheet helps community managers consider issues of unconscious bias, support structures, and creating diverse leadership committees as part of an inclusive member recruitment strategy.

DEI tip sheet: Childcare at scientific meetings

by Kate Baker, Ellen Bechtol, Rayna Harris, Camille Santistevan

April 21, 2020

This DEI tip sheet walks meeting organizers and community managers through considerations for providing childcare at scientific meetings with a set of reflection questions to show you C.A.R.E. (Childcare, Accommodations for families, Resources and Establishment of social networks)

DEI tip sheet: Decolonizing international research collaborations

by Kate Baker, Ellen Bechtol, Rayna Harris, Camille Santistevan

April 21, 2020

This DEI tip sheet encourages scientific community managers who support international research collaborations to consider ways in which they can help to decolonize the way research is carried out.

We are also creating additional DEI tip sheets in collaboration with members of the CSCCE community of practice. The first of these to be published addresses how to live caption or subtitle an online event.

DEI Tip Sheet: Captioning, subtitles, and transcription for online meetings and events

by Katie Pratt, Camille Santistevan, Lou Woodley, Stefanie Butland, and Cass Gould van Praag

November 12, 2020

In this tip sheet, we offer some solutions for creating captions, subtitles, and transcripts to improve accessibility of your online settings and events.

DEI Tip Sheet: Virtual event accessibility guiding questions

by Rebecca Carpenter, Sara Kobilka, Katie Pratt, Maya Sanghvi, Casey Wright, Yanina Bellini Saibene, Hao Ye, and Lou Woodley

June 27, 2023

This tip sheet explores 12 guiding questions to help improve the accessibility of your next virtual event; from the very earliest planning stages, through communications and marketing, to event hosting, follow-up, and evaluation.

Community call

April 2020’s community call was led by Kate Baker, Rayna Harris and Camille Santistevan of the CEFP2019 DEI project team.

  • Read the blog post summary of the call here.
  • The recording of the call will be released here in due course.

Code of conduct resources

A code of conduct and accompanying ways of enforcing it and talking about your community’s core values are important for creating an inclusive, safe and welcoming community. Our code of conduct working group reflected on the experience of creating our core values and community participation guidelines in this blog post.

Creating core values statements

by Lou Woodley and Katie Pratt

June 26, 2020

The activity described in this worksheet is designed to help you to collaboratively identify and define, as a group, the core values that underpin your work together.

Special interest group

CSCCE has a member-led special interest group focused on DEI. To request to join the group, please drop us an email: info@cscce.org