Below are some links to other resources and projects you might find useful. Note that these projects are not affiliated with GAIA and were not funded by the NERC “Making Environmental Science Equal, Diverse and Inclusive” grant.
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- Black Geographers: A community interest company working to tackle the erasure of black people in geography.
- Black in Geoscience: Aims to acknowledge, amplify, and support the work of Black earth and planetary scientists from around the world.
- Equator Research Group: Aiming to increase diversity and inclusion in the geoscience postgraduate community.
- Five Minutes with… from Geoscientist Online: Short text and audio interviews with working geoscientists.
- Geography For All: Aims to address EDI in geography focusing on under-representation by income and ethnicity. Run by the Royal Geographical Society.
- Geological Society career page: Career profiles of geologists.
- Geology for Global Development: Championing the role of geology in sustainable development.
- Geoscience for the Future: Aims to show how Geoscience gives us tools to tackle the biggest challenges facing our world – from fighting the climate crisis, to managing resources, to protecting communities from hazards.
- The Geospatial Scholarship Fund: Aims to support disadvantaged students from various communities to achieve their full potential in higher education by removing much of the financial stress of studying in higher education.
- GROW: Geoscience resources on opportunities in the workforce, including links to collections of (mostly US-based) geoscience career profiles.
- I Am A Geographer: Showcasing the range of jobs available to geography graduates.
- Mosaic Outdoors: Connecting BAME communities with the outdoors.
- Pride in STEM: Showcasing and supporting LGBTQIA+ people in STEM fields.
- URGE: Unlearning racism in geoscience.
- Wild in the City: London-based organisation focused on supporting positive relationships with nature for urban residents and people of colour.
- Women in Mining: Interviews with a wide range of women working in the mining industry.
Further reading
Ali, H. N., Sheffield, S. L., Bauer, J. E., Caballero-Gill, R. P., Gasparini, N. M., Libarkin, J., … & Schneider, B. (2021). An actionable anti-racism plan for geoscience organizations. Nature Communications, 12(1), 1-6.
Burnham, B., Bond, C., Flaig, P. P., van der Kolk, D. A., & Hodgetts, D. (2022). Outcrop conservation: Promoting accessibility, inclusivity, and reproducibility through digital preservation. The Sedimentary Record. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2110/sedred.2022.1.2
Collier, B. (2022). Not My Green Space? White Attitudes Towards Black Presence in UK Green Spaces. An Auto-ethnography. In Whose Green City? (pp. 41-58). Springer, Cham.
Dowey, N., Barclay, J., Fernando, B., Giles, S., Houghton, J., Jackson, C., … & Williams, R. (2021). A UK perspective on tackling the geoscience racial diversity crisis in the Global North. Nature Geoscience, 14(5), 256-259. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00737-w
Dutt, K. (2021). Addressing racism through ownership. Nature Geoscience, 14(2), 58-58. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00688-2
Giles, S., Jackson, C., & Stephen, N. (2020). Barriers to fieldwork in undergraduate geoscience degrees. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 1(2), 77-78.
Mackay, A. W., & Bishop, I. J. (2022). Out in the Field. Area.
Marín-Spiotta, E., Barnes, R. T., Berhe, A. A., Hastings, M. G., Mattheis, A., Schneider, B., & Williams, B. M. (2020). Hostile climates are barriers to diversifying the geosciences. Advances in Geosciences, 53, 117-127.
Mol, L., & Atchison, C. (2019). Image is everything: educator awareness of perceived barriers for students with physical disabilities in geoscience degree programs. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 43(4), 544-567.
Núñez, A. M., Rivera, J., & Hallmark, T. (2020). Applying an intersectionality lens to expand equity in the geosciences. Journal of Geoscience Education, 68(2), 97-114.
Scarlett, J. P. (2022). Researching Natural Hazards: The Harmful Legacy of Colonialism in Geoscience.