EDI Resources for Research

The courses listed below are available to faculty, students, and staff at Laurentian University via the D2L platform, which can be accessed through the MyLaurentian portal.

• Introduction to EDI for Researchers
  • Code: MICRO_INTROEDI_MASTER
• Creating Inclusive Workspaces: Exploring Power Dynamics and Graduate Research
  • Code: CTCL_Inclusive_2023_EL
• Indigenous Cultural Humility Training (Faculty & Staff)
  • Code: SSC_CRU_ICHTraining

The Equity, Diversity, and Human Rights Office (EDHRO) at Laurentian University provides a range of training programs addressing discrimination, harassment, sexual harassment, sexual violence, and bullying. For further details, please visit their webpage. https://laurentian.ca/human-rights. 

The resources listed below are provided by several federal research funding agencies, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the Canada Research Chairs Program (CRCP).

• Best practices in equity, diversity and inclusion in research practice and design
  • A key Tri-Council resource on EDI in research provides clarifying questions and examples for integrating EDI into your research design and practices, including the research team and research environment. This page serves as a solid starting point for gaining a better understanding of EDI in research and in research grant applications.
• NSERC guide on integrating equity, diversity and inclusion considerations in research
  • This guide provides the research communities served by NSERC with information and resources to help include EDI considerations in their research and consists of two sections: EDI at each stage of the research process and EDI considerations for research teams.
• NSERC - Alliance Advantage - EDI in your Training Plan
  • Provides extensive guidance on considering and integrating principles of EDI in both your research process and your research team. 
• Unconcious Bias Training Module
  • This presentation explains the concept of unconscious bias, describes its potential impact on the peer review process, and proposes strategies to mitigate its effects.
• CIHR Online Training Modules: Integrating Sex & Gender in Health Research  
  • Course 1: Sex and Gender in Biomedical Research
  • Course 2: Sex and Gender in Primary Data Collection with Human Participants
  • Course 3: Sex and Gender in the Analysis of Secondary Data from Human Participants
• Guide to Addressing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Considerations in Partnership Grant Applications (SSHRC)
  • This guide outlines expectations and provides definitions, examples, guiding questions, and resources for Partnership Grant applicants to refer to when incorporating EDI considerations into the development of their partnerships and the conceptualization of their research projects.
• How to integrate sex and gender into research (CIHR)
• Guidelines, tools and resources to help researchers integrate sex and gender into their research designs, methods and analyses and interpretation and/or dissemination of findings. 
• Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans – TCPS 2 (2022)
  • TCPS 2: CORE-2022 (Course on Research Ethics)

• TCPS 2 (2022) – Chapter 9: Research Involving the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples of Canada
  • This chapter of the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans is designed to serve as a framework for the ethical conduct of research involving Indigenous peoples and forms an integral part of the Policy to which institutions eligible to administer and receive research funding from any of the three research agencies agree to adhere as a condition of funding.
• First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC): First Nations Principles of Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession (OCAP)
  • The online course on the principles of OCAP addresses essential foundational concepts, including Data Sovereignty, Information Governance, and First Nations collective rights. Additionally, the course looks at the distinctions between asserting and respecting OCAP, while linking the relevance and significance of OCAP to your current role or responsibilities. The online course consists of 5 modules and costs $500.
• Indigenous Community Research Partnerships Courses
  • IRCP provides free online courses designed to support researchers in collaborating effectively with First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples. These resources aim to promote equitable inclusion of Indigenous knowledge and prioritize Indigenous ways of knowing and doing in the research process.
• Setting new Directions to Support Indigenous Research and Research Training in Canada
  • This Tri-Council document highlights the issues and concerns raised by First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in the context of Indigenous research and research training. Four strategic directions are presented to guide the ways forward in building  new models to support Indigenous research and training.

• A Practical Guide to Writing about Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in Grant Proposals (Toronto Metropolitan University)
  • This guide from TMU provides information on granting agency requirements, examples of EDI considerations, what to include, and what not to include regarding EDI in grant proposals, and more.
• How to incorporate equity, diversity, and inclusion in your grant applications (Ask Dr. Editor article in University Affairs)
• Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion - Educational resources
• Inclusive Language Guide (University of Victoria)
• San Francisco Declaration of Research Assessment (DORA)
  • DORA recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated, beyond the widely used journal impact factor. NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR, CFI and Genome Canada have signed the declaration.