Nov 2018: I believe we need both bottom-up and top-down approaches to tackling diversity problems in science. Bottom-up could be seen as inspiring children and early career scientists and celebrating individuals who've made great leaps. While I think of top-down as structural changes and hard work from organisations. But when it comes to gender, we have an imbalance. The discourse is dominated by bottom-up approaches that put the responsibility on individual women to be more inspirational and extraordinary.
My new Perspective article argues that there should be a greater focus on what journals, publishers, societies and universities should do instead of focusing on stories and celebrations of extraordinary individuals overcoming barriers. I explain why this is the case and then provide a series of practical solutions that might help us achieve structural changes.
You can read the paper here: Smith A.L. (2018). Increasing editorial diversity: strategies for structural change. Fire 1: 42.
Or check out my blog post on Trinity College's excellent EcoEvo Blog.
My new Perspective article argues that there should be a greater focus on what journals, publishers, societies and universities should do instead of focusing on stories and celebrations of extraordinary individuals overcoming barriers. I explain why this is the case and then provide a series of practical solutions that might help us achieve structural changes.
You can read the paper here: Smith A.L. (2018). Increasing editorial diversity: strategies for structural change. Fire 1: 42.
Or check out my blog post on Trinity College's excellent EcoEvo Blog.
