Here you’ll find practical tools or guides that will help with planning, implementing or evaluating projects and programmes to improve EDI in science and health research.
INCLUDE provides a suggested framework of questions to guide the deliberations of funders, researchers and delivery teams as they design and assess clinical research proposals. It gives examples of good practice and resources to guide teams seeking to engage with, and include under-served groups in clinical research.
This guide from Wellcome has now been replaced with a Version 2 (2022). This guide, supported by EDIS, gives general recommendations when asking diversity questions. It includes suggestions for questions you could ask and why you might choose to ask them in certain ways.
Diverse & Inclusive Spaces and Conferences: Overall Vision and Essential Resources - This cookbook is intended as a resource for organizers of conferences and events to support and encourage diversity and inclusion at those events. Developed by the NumFOCUS Diversity & Inclusion in Scientific Computing (DISC) Program.
The UK Standards for Public Involvement are designed to improve the quality and consistency of public involvement in research. This link takes you to the resources listed to support meeting the 'inclusive opportunities' standard.
In each section (attraction, progression and retention) there are case studies, advice and practical resources to help employers bring about positive change within their workforce and address their gender pay gaps. These resources include a dashboard tool to measure their progress against #STEMbalance targets.
This handbook compiles a series of recommendations for a more fair, objective, and transparent recruitment process for senior leadership positions in science research institutes that can also be applied more broadly to include the recruitment of PhD students, postdocs and technical staff.
The Global Diversity & Inclusion Benchmarks: Standards for Organizations Around the World (GDIB) aims to support organizations globally in the development and implementation of Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) best practices covering competence, compliance, dignity, organisational development and social justice.
The D&I Progression Framework aims to help professional bodies track and plan progress on D&I. The framework asks professional bodies about progress on D&I in eight areas, by setting out four levels of good practice for each.
The European Association of Science Editors (EASE) Gender Policy Committee, experts and members of the research community have developed the SAGER guidelines: a comprehensive procedure for reporting of sex and gender information in study design, data analyses, results and interpretation of findings.
