EDI Resources for Research

Ryan O'Donnell
Research Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Advisor
Phone: 705-675-1151 ext. 5100
Office: L-648
Email: rodonnell@laurentian.ca

The Research EDI Advisor is responsible for working with various stakeholders within Laurentian University to support practices of inclusion and equity for researchers, faculty, students, and staff. For assistance in incorporating EDI principles into your research, please reach out to Ryan O'Donnell.

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)
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