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Transforming research environments: the active bystander

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UCL's MAPS and Engineering Faculties are holding a workshop on how best to create research environments free of harassment.

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Harassment endangers the professional and personal well-being of individuals and their communities and contributes to hostile climates in science. It can exploit differences in religion, race, class, ability, sexual orientation, and gender identity and is especially toxic when perpetrated by people in positions of power, such as supervisors or advisors.

The goal of this workshop is to raise awareness of the problem in scientific communities, discuss initiatives to address harassment and discuss practical ways for creating research environments that challenge and prevent harassment.

The workshop is open to all PhD students from the Engineering and MAPS faculties.

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The workshop will be held by Professor Asmeret Asefaw-Berhe (University of California). Asmeret's research interests center on the effect of changing environmental conditions—specifically fire, erosion, and climate change—on important soil processes. Her group is working to understand how perturbations in the environment affect how essential elements like carbon and nitrogen cycle through the soil system. Her research extends to political ecology, working to understand the contribution of armed conflict to land degradation and how people interact with their environment.

An advocate for women in science, Berhe is currently a co-Principal Investigator of ADVANCEGeo, which is working to transform the workplace climate of the geosciences to increase retention of women in the field and develop a sustainable model that can be transferred to other scientific domains. Currently, the Earth Science Women's Network, the Association for Women Geoscientists, and the American Geophysical Union have partnered to address the issue of sexual harassment in the earth, space and environmental sciences. The program led by Erika Marín-Spiotta and is run with support from a four-year $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

She currently serves as an advisory board member of 500 Women Scientists, a grassroots organization working to make science open, inclusive, and accessible, and is on the leadership board of the Earth Science Women's Network.

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