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Today I presented a talk on geology fieldwork and inclusivity, specifically on fieldwork culture and the harm in exclusively targeting fieldwork at rugged, able bodied, white men.
As my first proper virtual talk, I think it went really well! Especially the huge turnout from undergraduate students from multiple disciplines.
Several people have asked for some more information about fieldwork and inclusivity, so here’s a thread of interesting articles. I’ll definitely add to this as time goes on, and please do add your own ideas!
- Sam Giles, Chris Jackson & Natasha Stephen: Barriers to fieldwork in undergraduate geoscience degrees https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338723516_Barriers_to_fieldwork_in_undergraduate_geoscience_degrees
- Alison N. Olcott & Matthew R. Downen: The Challenges of Fieldwork for LGBTQ+ Geoscientists https://eos.org/features/the-challenges-of-fieldwork-for-lgbtq-geoscientists
- Alex Fitzpatrick: You Will Never Be Indiana Jones https://www.ladyscience.com/essays/you-will-never-be-indiana-jones-toxic-masculinity-archaeology
- Sarah Greene, Kate Ashley, Emma Dunne, Kirsty Edgar, Sam Giles & Emma Hanson: Toilet stops in the field: An educational primer and recommended best practices for field-based teaching. https://osf.io/gnhj2/
- Riley Black: It’s Time for the Heroic Male Paleontologist Trope to Go Extinct https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/what-the-new-yorker-dinosaur-story-gets-wrong.html
- Faith Tucker & John Horton: ‘The show must go on!’ Fieldwork, mental health and wellbeing in Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences https://pure.northampton.ac.uk/en/publications/the-show-must-go-on-fieldwork-mental-health-and-wellbeing-in-geog
- Rebecca Dzombak: It’s time to change the geosciences’ outdated, exclusionary, and ableist field requirements https://sisterstem.org/2020/07/22/its-time-to-change-the-geosciences-field-requirements/
- John Pickrell: Scientists push against barriers to diversity in the field sciences https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2020/03/scientists-push-against-barriers-diversity-field-sciences
- Alison Stokes, Anthony D. Feig, Christopher L, Atchison & Brett Gilley: Making geoscience fieldwork inclusive and accessible for students with disabilities
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/article/15/6/1809/574966/Making-geoscience-fieldwork-inclusive-and
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/article/15/6/1809/574966/Making-geoscience-fieldwork-inclusive-and
- Richard J. Sima: Accessibility & Fieldwork in the Time of Coronavirus https://eos.org/features/accessibility-and-fieldwork-in-the-time-of-coronavirus
- Kristen St. John, Eric Riggs, & Dave Mogk Sexual Harassment in the Sciences: A Call to Geoscience Faculty and Researchers to Respond https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.5408/1089-9995-64.4.255
- Nicholas P. Lang &Lyman P. Persico: Challenges and approaches for creating inclusive field courses for students with an autism spectrum disorder https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10899995.2019.1625996
- Katy Montgomerie: What rights don’t trans people have? https://medium.com/@KatyMontgomerie/what-rights-dont-trans-people-have-228c728f564a
