Wilton Mike, Vargas Paloma, Prevost Luanna, Lo Stanley M, Cooke James E, Gin Logan E, Imad Mays, Tatapudy Sumitra, Sato Brian
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, San Diego Mesa College, San Diego, California, USA.
J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2022 Jul 12;23(2). doi: 10.1128/jmbe.00048-22. eCollection 2022 Aug.
Academic conferences are integral to the dissemination of novel research findings and discussion of pioneering ideas across all postsecondary disciplines. For some participants, these environments are spaces to develop new collaborations, research projects, and social bonds; however, for others, conferences can be a place of marginalization and outright hostility. To assess how diverse individuals experience conference spaces, we interpreted results from a conference climate survey filled out by 198 of 482 registrants of the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER) West 2021 conference. Analysis of the survey data was conducted by six biology education researchers, who in addition to raising conference participant voices, provide insights, and next steps whose implementation can promote greater participant equity, representation, and engagement in future science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education conferences specifically and potentially all academic conference spaces more broadly.
学术会议对于在所有高等学科中传播新的研究成果以及讨论开创性想法至关重要。对于一些参与者而言，这些环境是发展新合作、研究项目和社会联系的空间；然而，对另一些人来说，会议可能是一个被边缘化甚至充满敌意的地方。为了评估不同个体如何体验会议空间，我们解读了生物学教育研究促进协会（SABER）2021年西部会议482名注册者中的198人所填写的会议氛围调查问卷结果。六位生物学教育研究人员对调查数据进行了分析，他们除了提升会议参与者的声音外，还提供了见解以及后续步骤，这些步骤的实施能够在未来尤其促进科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教育会议中，并且可能在更广泛的所有学术会议空间中，实现更大程度的参与者公平、代表性和参与度。
