Thu, Apr 28, 2022
Our vision
- We have trust in our guts and minds!
- For everyone (lab members and guests), to be welcome, included, safe, supported and respected.
- Ensure equitable access to resources, opportunities, and mentorship.
- Every team member offers a unique perspective that adds value to the lab.
- Collaboration between researchers having diverse identities, diverse knowledge systems, diverse world views, and diverse lived experiences promotes personal growth, mutual understanding, problem-solving, productivity, creativity and discovery.
- Belonging fosters self-confidence, flexibility, team goals, motivation and collaboration.
Actionables
- Organizing group activities involved all lab members, and everyone is encouraged to join in the activities.
- Make sure the type, time and place of activities are accessible for all members, and consider the level of safety.
- Create a multi-faith calendar and ensure lab events are not scheduled on important religious or cultural days.
- Work towards preventing unconscious bias and unconscious microaggressions:
- Educate ourselves about biases and microaggressions.
- Actively identify and recognize potential unconscious biases that may impact our lab members. It can be dynamic and complex –
- Embrace diverse voices, perspectives, values and thoughts.
- Empathy is the key to preventing microaggressions. We create a thoughtful and considerate atmosphere by maintaining our colleagues’ self-esteem and demonstrating empathy.
- Learning to avoid / correct doing microaggression mistakes.
- Encourage new ideas that reflect the viewpoints of people coming from diverse life experiences
- Interacting with researchers from all over the world to conduct exchange activities to enhance understanding and inclusion of different cultures while conducting academic exchanges.
- Remove barriers that may block motivation: increasing motivation is less about adding to the level of motivation, but more about removing barriers that might be blocking it.
- Develop the skills to listen to others. People may feel demotivated when they are not being heard and understood.
- Together build an environment with trust and integrity, clear visions and team goals to remove the barrier of uncertainty and confusion.
- Physically barrier-free work environment with equitable access to lab hardwares, instruments, methods, software etc. Open to feedback and suggestions about accessibility. Actively identify any potential limitations of people accessing our resources.
- Equitable access to mentorship and time.
- Equitable opportunities and funding to participate in conferences, professional development. One conference per year and professional development opportunities will be tailored to the trainee’s needs.
- Selection process for biases and barriers
- Learn more about EDI.