Following the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion panel discussion at the CAN 2022 meeting in Toronto, the committee has put together a short reading list of articles of interest.
This paper by Anais Llorens et al. Neuron 2021 is a comprehensive piece that breaks down the literature and key issues (and provides evidence-based solutions) on gender bias in academic STEM:
- Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(21)00417-7
Also UCSC prof and cell biologist Needhi Bhalla has an extensive list of literature on EDI in STEM (mainly gender bias and racism) organized under subheadings https://www.bhallalab.com/equity-reading-list. The following papers are especially relevant to the discussions had at the CAN meeting:
- Assessment of potential bias in research grant peer review in Canada https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29685909/
- Are gender gaps due to evaluations of the applicant or the science? A natural experiment at a national funding agency https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30739688/
- Strategies to improve equity in faculty hiring (this was written by Needhi Bhalla; contains a lot of key references to the relevant literature and also provides evidence-based strategies and solutions) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31609672/
Additional papers of interest:
- Best Practices in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Research
https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/nfrf-fnfr/edi-eng.aspx - Diversity Innovation Paradox
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1915378117 - Addressing Racial and Phenotypic Bias in Human Neuroscience Methods
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-022-01046-0 - Racial and ethnic imbalance in neuroscience reference lists and intersections with gender
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.12.336230v1 - Towards an antiracist (neuro)science
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01075-y
