Juneteenth—shorthand for June 19th—celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. Originating in 1865, Juneteenth commemorates the arrival of federal troops in Galveston, Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation and inform enslaved African Americans of their freedom. It is an official federal holiday and a time of joy, celebration, and reflection across the country.
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Louise Skelding Tattle, associate research integrity director at Sage, writes about publishing inclusive research in Sage journals and “how to ensure research outcomes work for the affected community and not a narrow group of privileged participants.”
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Last year, the SAGE Journals team released a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) pledge using a framework from the Royal Society of Chemistry’s joint commitment for action on inclusion and diversity. The pledge aims to ensure that SAGE’s identity, values, and animating principles such as our guaranteed independence and our mission of building bridges to knowledge, are incorporated into our DEI work. In this blog post, Martha Avtandilian, Publisher for SAGE's Social Science Journals division and lead of the Research Pillar's Application Stream, and Jessica Lipowski, Publishing Editor on the STM Journals Editorial team, reflect on our DEI pledge for SAGE Journals a year in and looks ahead to new goals to create more inclusive journals publishing at SAGE.
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Communication Disorders Quarterly (CDQ) publishes reports on typical and atypical communication—from spoken language development to literacy. The journal’s research extends across age. Articles range from an analysis of baby babble; to the effectiveness of choral singing for patients with Parkinson's who exhibit degradations in speech; to clinical interventions for patients with age-related hearing loss.
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For the second event in our “Reimagining Social Institutions” series, a panel of experts will be exploring what anti-racist higher education would look like. The series is a public forum created in partnership with SSRC for cultivating equitable, anti-racist social institutions. The discussions acknowledge that human behavior and outcomes are shaped by historical, political and social forces, and that lasting change today can only come from tackling the existing structures themselves. The event will be taking place on December 17, 2020.
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This year has exposed a lot of glaring flaws in how modern society functions, not least of which its relationship with race and racism. We all, as individuals and as part of institutions, had to take a long hard look at ourselves and the ways we were contributing to the problem. Racism has a long history within the academy—from unethical research methodology and cruel experimentation to outlandish theories about the hierarchies of human races—and no field was exempt, including the social sciences.
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