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Are you looking for data on gender or racial disparities in funding, best practices to host more inclusive meetings, testimonials and insights from diverse scientists, or examples of institutional actions to support mental health and well-being? Find all this and more on the searchable ALBA database of over 1000 resources, curated and categorised by topic, type and group identity.

With this database, we hope to foster an environment of awareness and learning, support individuals and organisations in their DEI efforts, and promote best practices and tools to achieve equity and inclusion. 

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Conduct

Conduct is a platform to analyze the diversity metrics at your workplace. At the time of onboarding, your employees will be asked about their profile. This data can later be converted into analytical reports that will help you determine the diversity metrics in your workplace.

Best practices & tools
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Expertise vs. Bias in Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH

This paper develops a framework for separately identifying the effects of expertise and bias on decision making and applies it in the context of peer review at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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Gender equity
Gender & sexual diversity
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Women less likely to win major research awards

Although the gap is narrowing, prestigious prizes are still more likely to go to men, finds an analysis of gender bias in the world’s top science awards.

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Implicit Bias and Selection: The Facts and Best Practices

“The selection committees for scholarships are objective.” To some extent, this is true. No one on a selection committee does their job with the intention to discriminate against a certain group. However, humans are still vulnerable to implicit bias.

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Managing internal nomination and peer review processes to reduce bias

Various forms of bias threaten the integrity and effectiveness of peer review at journals, funding agencies, and even for programs within institutions. This guideline offers strategies to reduce bias in peer review, with a focus on internal award nominations and funding programs

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Unconscious bias
Gender equity
Gender & sexual diversity
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