September 15, 2023

Unconscious bias workshop

This morning I participated in an unconscious bias workshop held by CSU for members of this year’s Academic Promotions committees. Here are some papers that I shared with people at the workshop: 

HEARING - USING MICROPHONES AT UNIVERSITY 

  • Van Den Heuij, K. M. L., Neijenhuis, K., & Coene, M. (2018). Acoustic environments that support equally accessible oral higher education as a human right. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20(1), 108-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2017.1413136 

 IMPACT OF COVID LOCKDOWNS (esp. on women) 

  • Pebdani, R. N., Zeidan, A., Low, L.-F., & Baillie, A. (2023). Pandemic productivity in academia: using ecological momentary assessment to explore the impact of COVID-19 on research productivity. Higher Education Research & Development, 42(4), 937-953. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2022.2128075 

"The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on academic mothers has many long-term implications on career progression and alleviating this gendered impact should be a priority for adminstrators worldwide." (Pebdani et al., 2023, p. 937)

  • Squazzoni, F., Bravo, G., Grimaldo, F., García-Costa, D., Farjam, M., & Mehmani, B. (2021). Gender gap in journal submissions and peer review during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. A study on 2329 Elsevier journals. PLOS ONE, 16(10), e0257919. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257919