Over the past year, the RCN has focused considerable attention on making our conferences safer and more welcoming spaces.
Following the Inclusive Conferences Working Group recommendations, ROOT & SHOOT has partnered with the ADVANCEGeo Partnership to organize a set of bystander intervention workshops. This free training will describe different types of exclusionary behaviors that affect recruitment and retention into STEM, the academic practices and institutional structures that allow for exclusionary behaviors to persist, and provide training in personal intervention strategies to protect and support targets of exclusionary behaviors.
ROOT & SHOOT has organized two repeat sessions, one on June 27 at 11:00 am EDT, and the other on July 10 at 3:00 pm EDT.
Spaces are limited – each workshop is capped at 100 participants.
Please use this form to register by Friday, June 23: https://forms.gle/Ux3uqRbEjoyRTFfr7
The description for the sessions is as follows:
This interactive session describes different types of exclusionary behaviors that affect recruitment and retention into STEM, the academic practices and institutional structures that allow for exclusionary behaviors to persist, and provides training in personal intervention strategies to protect and support targets of exclusionary behaviors. As a result of this session, participants will be able to identify: (1) different ways in which harassment, bullying, and other types of exclusionary behaviors can manifest in research environments; (2) strategies for bystander intervention, and (3) resources for cultural change in academic institutions and professional societies.
All participants will be provided with handouts that describe the bystander intervention strategies and point to resources related to the issues discussed. Participants will be asked to complete a short survey at the end of the workshop to provide feedback to the facilitators.
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