期刊
GIGASCIENCE
卷 10, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giab051
关键词
online conferences; diversity; inclusivity; open science; collaborative events
资金
- Medical Research Council UK
- NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre
- NIH [R25-DA051675, U01-DA041156, R01-DA041353]
- Brain and Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD grant
- NIMH [5R21MH118556-02]
- TransMedTech Institute fellowship
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, London [BB/S008314/1]
- National Imaging Facility, a National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) capability, at the Centre for Advanced Imaging, the University of Queensland
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [694,665]
- Elsass Foundation [18-3-0147]
- Laboratorio Nacional de Imagenologia por Resonancia Magnetica (LANIREM)
- European Union
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research [016.Vidi.188.029]
- MIUR project Dipartimenti di eccellenza
- National Institute of Mental Health [RF1 MH120021, R25 MH112480]
- Translational Research Institute through the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the NIH [TL1 TR003109]
- UK Medical Research Council [MR/N013700]
- King's College London
- Wellcome Trust [109062/Z/15/Z, 213722/Z/18/Z]
- Melbourne Research Scholarship
- AXA Research Fund
- National Imaging Facility, a National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) capability, at Sydney Imaging, The University of Sydney
- Intramural Research Program of the NIMH [ZIAMH002949, ZIAMH002783, ZICMH002960, ZIAMH002909]
- Research Foundation Flanders [G036716N]
- Weizmann Institute of Science -Israel National Postdoctoral Award Program for Advancing Women in Science
- NSF [1631325]
- Wellcome Trust [109062/Z/15/Z, 213722/Z/18/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
- BBSRC [BB/S008314/1] Funding Source: UKRI
The shift to online academic conferences in 2020 has been praised for its inclusivity in removing economic, physical, and legal barriers, allowing a more global community to participate. However, there are still significant obstacles to truly diverse participation in online conferences, such as inaccessible tools, scheduling biases, and visibility issues. Therefore, actively promoting diversity in online conference design is crucial to fostering social justice and ensuring meaningful participation for all.
As the global health crisis unfolded, many academic conferences moved online in 2020. This move has been hailed as a positive step towards inclusivity in its attenuation of economic, physical, and legal barriers and effectively enabled many individuals from groups that have traditionally been underrepresented to join and participate. A number of studies have outlined how moving online made it possible to gather a more global community and has increased opportunities for individuals with various constraints, e.g., caregiving responsibilities. Yet, the mere existence of online conferences is no guarantee that everyone can attend and participate meaningfully. In fact, many elements of an online conference are still significant barriers to truly diverse participation: the tools used can be inaccessible for some individuals; the scheduling choices can favour some geographical locations; the set-up of the conference can provide more visibility to well-established researchers and reduce opportunities for early-career researchers. While acknowledging the benefits of an online setting, especially for individuals who have traditionally been underrepresented or excluded, we recognize that fostering social justice requires inclusivity to actively be centered in every aspect of online conference design. Here, we draw from the literature and from our own experiences to identify practices that purposefully encourage a diverse community to attend, participate in, and lead online conferences. Reflecting on how to design more inclusive online events is especially important as multiple scientific organizations have announced that they will continue offering an online version of their event when in-person conferences can resume.
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