Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Supporting our LGBTQIA+ Community
C-Hub is committed to supporting our LGBTQIA+ community at OIST and beyond. Creating an inclusive climate in our laboratories, offices, social spaces, and our interactions across the university is essential for the well-being and success of all individuals. While LGBTQIA+ acceptance and rights have continued to make progress, many still encounter discrimination, bias, and challenges.
Below is a starting point of resources for all of us to continue learning how we can affirm and actively support our LGBTQIA+ members.
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LGBTQIA+ vocabulary and glossary of terms
Resources and Best Practices Guides
- 500 Queer Scientists Resources
- Applying the Seven Learning Principles to Creating LGBT-Inclusive Classrooms
- Assessing LGBTQI+ Inclusion in Your Workplace
- Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Students
- Career and Job Search Resources for LGBTQ Studnets: Columbia University Center for Career Education
- Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
- Inclusion by Design – Survey your syllabus and course design
- LGBTQ-Inclusive Language Dos and Don’ts
- Out and Equal Guide for LGBTQ people and allies
- Pride-Out-of-the-Box: An ERG Guide to Celebrating Pride 2022
- Pronouns Matter – How to use personal pronouns and why they matter
- Springer Nature’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Talking about pronouns in the workplace
- University of Birmingham Best Practices Guide
- Navigating the world of science as a nonbinary person and supporting nonbinary colleagues and students
Professional and Student Organizations
- 500 Queer Scientists - LGBTQ+ people and their allies working in STEM and STEM-supporting jobs
- Human Rights Campaign list of organizations
- LGBT+ Physicists
- National Center for Transgender Equality
- oSTEM
- Out and Equal
- Out Professionals
- Out to Innovate
- Stonewall Japan: LGBT University Groups
Mental Health Resources
- OIST Ganjuu Wellbeing Service
- Research on Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing
- Stonewall Japan: Mental Health Resources in Japan
- The Impact of Sexual and Gender Microaggressions on LGBT Accessibility to Healthcare
Inclusive communication
A curated list of resources, guides, websites, and papers aimed at advancing knowledge of best practices in inclusive communication.
Inclusive STEM Training Environments
This resource contains the materials used in the Visiting Fellow Workshop, Designing Inclusive STEM Training Environments, delivered by C-Hub’s inaugural visiting fellow, Dr. Tari Tan. They aim to foster reflection on features of STEM training environments that either promote or inhibit inclusion, equity, and belonging among trainees. Included are strategies and approaches to create inclusive and equitable training environments in the classroom, laboratory, and institutional contexts.