Journal Articles
Equitable research funding: Strategies, challenges and the role of funding agencies
11 June 2025. This EJN article explores how research funding agencies are addressing EDI in grant allocation. Based on interviews conducted by the ALBA Network with representatives from major funders, it highlights current strategies, persistent challenges, and the urgent need for evidence-based, transparent practices to ensure fairer access to funding for underrepresented researchers in an increasingly politicised landscape. Read more
Ten simple rules for queer data collection and analysis by STEM researchers
28 May 2025. Based on recent guidelines developed by the ALBA Gender & Sexual Diversity Working Group for collecting and reporting sex and gender data, this article offers concrete, practical recommendations to make data collection, analysis, and dissemination more inclusive of queer individuals - whether working with human participants, animal models, or gathering diversity data for conferences and surveys. Read more
Making space for people with disabilities
20 May 2025. This EJN editorial is inspired by the work of the ALBA Disability and Accessibility Working Group, which advocates for greater visibility of scientists with disabilities and promotes best practices to ensure equity and inclusion within scientific institutions. It sheds light on the structural and cultural barriers disabled scientists continue to face, and offers concrete recommendations to create a more accessible and inclusive neuroscience community. Read more
Strategies and a checklist for increasing diversity, equity and inclusion in your journal
2 August 2023. This editorial stems from a panel discussion co-organised at the FENS Forum 2022 by the ALBA Network and editors from EJN and Wiley. Authors discuss strategies to improve diversity at various stages of the publishing process for authors, editors, reviewers & readers and provide a ‘self-administered checklist’ to guide journals in thinking about how they can implement these strategies. Read more
Addressing the opportunity gap in the Latin American neuroscience community
16 August 2022. Neuroscientists in Latin America face unique challenges tied to their cultural and socioeconomic identity that reduce the impact of their scientific contributions. This commentary reflects on steps to improve their global inclusion, visibility and success. Read more
COVID-19, stress, and inequities in (neuro)science
3 November 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic has posed major challenges for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in research and academia. Chairs of the ALBA Network reflect on how the pandemic has exacerbated, and also shone a spotlight on, inequalities in science and society. Read more
“Diversity matters series”—The ALBA network
29 May 2021. ALBA Network gets featured in the “Diversity Matters Series” of the European Journal of Neuroscience (EJN), focused on highlighting the efforts of organisations in the neurosciences committed to DEI, both bottom-up grassroots movements as well as top-down efforts from organisations. Read more
Spotlight
Static pay, shrinking prospects fuel neuroscience postdoc decline
31 January 2025. At the ALBA-IBRO social during SfN2024, Dr Mayank Chugh discussed the systemic challenges postdocs face — from job insecurity to visa hurdles. This article in The Transmitter features his insights from the event and expands on these issues, examining how long hours, shrinking pay, and limited career prospects are affecting the neuroscience postdoc community. Read more
The Global Scientific Community Needs to Promote Diversity in Research Together
22 July 2021. Five members of the ALBA Network Steering Committee introduce the ALBA network to the global community and emphasise the importance of coordinated international efforts to effectively promoting diversity in science. Read more
