2021 roundup: Resources to support diversity, equity and inclusion
Insights from the social and behavioral sciences can help us to understand, challenge and dismantle the inequities that continue to pervade our societies. Below you will find a selection of some of the resources SAGE has shared this year to help advance diversity, equity and inclusion for underrepresented groups, both in academia and in wider society.
Supporting pathways into academia
Event recording: What does inclusion mean in the world of research?
In this SAGE-sponsored event, speakers discuss what journal editors, funders, and publishers are (and should be) doing to support researchers from underrepresented, unheard and underprivileged backgrounds.
Event series: Building academic pathway programs for underrepresented students
This three-part event series examines what makes a successful academic pipeline program for students from underrepresented backgrounds.
Event recording: What it means to be an early career researcher as a woman of color
The hour-long discussion helped to uncover the layers of difficulty that come with being a gendered and racialized subject in an academic environment that is frequently dismissive of these struggles.
Racial equity
Resource list: Anti-racist social science books and articles
A list of works across social science disciplines that engage with the ongoing need to understand, analyze, resist and dismantle the racism that continues to pervade our societies.
Research collection: Structural Racism & Police Violence: Causes, Impact, and Reform
A collection of permanently free-to-access SAGE research that supports researchers, educators, policymakers and advocates to work towards dismantling mechanisms of racial discrimination, oppression and violence.
Blog: Why is interdisciplinary research on race and racism so important?
This blog posts discusses where Critical Race Theory and Gender Studies belong in the landscape of anti-racist research in the social sciences.
Blog: Racist humor normalizes anti-Asian racism and must stop
This blog addresses how certain types of anti-Asian discrimination have become socially acceptable in the US, and why that’s so dangerous.
Research collection: Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month
This collection of research examines the experiences of AAPI communities in the US, including stereotyping, colonization, racism, media depictions and intersectionality.
Research collection: Minority Cancer Awareness and Minority Health Month
This collection calls attention to minority cancer health disparities and the need for awareness, as well as research on health, cancer types, and inequities, and building a diverse biomedical workforce.
LGBTQIA+ inclusion
Research collection: Celebrating Pride with resources and education
A collection of research, videos, and books takes a look at Queer Theory, Gender Identity, Queer Justice, Hegemonic Heterosexuality, Sexual Orientation, and more.
Event recording: The State of Trans Studies in the 2020s
A panel of leading scholars in the field of Trans Studies discuss what the field looks like now and in the future.
Event recording: How to Decolonize and Decisnormatize Curricula
A wide-ranging conversation in which speakers share how they have worked to decolonize and decisnormatize the higher education system.
Blog: Changing the names of trans people in their own work is not enough
Why publishers’ name-change policies are only one small piece of the work required to make academia truly inclusive of trans people.
Book: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies
The first volume of its kind, the SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies was published this year with the aim to define the scope of trans studies and how it has grown as a field of study over recent decades.
Women’s equality
Research collection: Women’s History Month
A research collection spotlighting research by women that focuses on intersectionality, women’s studies, business and management, women in STEM, women’s health, and more.
Blog: Is there a glass ceiling in higher education?
This blog post examines the challenges women in higher education face and what can be done to support more women into positions of leadership.