These are a collection of research-based helpful resources for outreach, teaching, graduate student recruitment, hiring for diversity, incorporating EDI into research and some inspiring books.
Inclusive outreach
- A one-pager of inclusive outreach/recruitment approaches
- In-depth report of how to improve gender diversity in engineering classrooms from the Quebec NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering
- Useful K-12 outreach guide from the Forward Engineering Collective
Inclusive Teaching
- An action-focused set of advice for inclusive engineering classrooms, from the Queen’s Women in Engineering Chair
- Easy-to-digest suggestions for inclusive teaching from the Quebec NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering (currently in French)
- Specific suggestions (about 2 hours) to incorporate growth mindset messaging into course outlines and first day of class
- Inclusive teamwork ideas based on Canadian engineering students (see Table 4)
Recruiting diverse graduate students
- Checklist and accommodations to consider
- Job posting template, inclusive interview questions and rubrics
Incorporating EDI into research
- A selection of great resources — from how to include EDI in research grants to supporting a diverse research group — developed by the Quebec NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering
Hiring for diversity
Great resources developed by research partners
- The Engendering Success in STEM Consortium compiled multiple easy-to-digest one-pagers on EDI in STEM, from youth to the workplace
Great books
- The best description of low-level and constant exclusion I have seen. Graphic novel based in the Oil Sands (Ducks)
- Resource for supporting women to become Full Professors by a former Ontario NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering (Forward to Professorship in STEM)
- A great examination of the barriers women professors in STEM face by the late Dr. Kirsty Duncan, former Canadian Minister of Science (The Exclusion Effect)
- An incredible examination of how the idea of merit is misused in technical spaces to exclude and undervalue women, by an engineer turned academic sociologist (Misconceiving Merit)
- Great examples of women physicists by the Ontario NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering (Her Space, Her Time)
- Inclusive leadership through crisis by the first transman department Chair in Canada (The Glass Cliff)