Resources

A practical guide developed by the ALBA Gender & Sexual Diversity Working Group to making your data collection, analysis, and dissemination more inclusive of queer individuals. Whether you're working with human participants, animal models, or gathering diversity data for conferences and surveys, this article offers concrete tips to foster inclusivity across research contexts.

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.

New ALBA guidelines encourage neuroscientists to move beyond the binary categorisation of sex in research, in studies both involving humans and animals. Recognising the complexity of sex and gender, these recommendations aim to improve the analysis and reporting of their influence on the brain, moving beyond a simplistic male/female distinction.

Comprehensive ALBA definition that considers region-specific circumstances and systemic barriers contributing to disadvantage and underrepresentation. This aims to foster a universal understanding of privilege across cultural and geographic contexts, ensuring that those benefiting from targeted initiatives are genuinely the individuals who need them the most.

ALBA has curated a list of mentoring programmes that have been developed in various formats in neuroscience and more broadly academic STEM settings to offer support and guidance for students from underrepresented groups in the early stages of their career.