ELSI Global Environment Team
What is GET?
GET examines strategies to promote diversity and inclusion in all ELSI functions; including recruitment, events, workshops/symposia, and daily life. GET also provides guidance when requested by ELSI members and committees as well as the Director’s Office on issues related to gender and culture and matters that may impact one subset of our members to a greater extent than another. GET is designed to be a nimble entity that can deal with diversity related matters before they become problems so that researchers can focus on science.
For details on the founding and development of GET, please see Marc Kaufman's article http://www.elsi.jp/en/media/blogs/2020/20200312_mkaufman
Raising the awareness of unconscious biases
GET collects information related to equality, diversity and inclusion in academic fields.
Promoting inclusive meetings
GET examines successful strategies to promote diversity in recruitment and retention in the sciences and encourages implementation at ELSI sponsored events and daily research life.
Helping resolve the issues related to equality, diversity and inclusion
GET welcomes consultations from ELSI people where one can be anonymous. Contact form is at the bottom of this page.
ELSI Code of Conduct (Click to open)
ELSI aims to be a safe and productive environment that fosters open dialogue and the free expression of ideas, free of harassment, discrimination and hostile conduct.
To achieve this goal, you, as a member of ELSI, take on the following responsibilities:
1. Behaving in a professional manner when acting in a professional capacity:
1.1. Treat everyone with dignity and respect, in a fair and equitable manner.
1.2. Be mindful that perception of misconduct varies from person to person.
1.3. Be considerate of different cultural backgrounds that may have different social codes.
1.4. Maintain/help maintain positive group interaction during discussions.
2. Responding to experiences, observations or claims:
2.1. Know what constitutes misconduct. When in doubt, ask.
2.2. Report experienced or observed misconduct to prevent future misconduct.
2.3. Acknowledge that not reporting observed misconduct normalizes and perpetuates this behavior.
These guidelines apply to ELSI members at all times and places when acting in a professional capacity and to anyone hosted by ELSI, on the ELSI campus, or attending an ELSI event.
Practical Information
Policies of Academic Societies
Tokyo Tech Harassment Policy, Consultation: https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/enrolled/counseling/harassment.html
Goldschmidt Conference Code of Conduct: https://goldschmidt.info/2018/codeOfConduct
Further Reading (Suggestions are welcome!)
"Most of us are biased" (2013) https://www.nature.com/articles/495033a
Tokyo Tech’s Gender Equality Center has now become the Gender Equality Section under the Diversity Promotion Office
https://www.gec.jim.titech.ac.jp/english/index.html
Unlearning Racism in Geoscience https://urgeoscience.org/
Asahi Shimbun’s space to discuss gender issues https://www.asahi.com/special/thinkgender/
Reiko, Hanako, and Christine gave an interview about GET for the WPI https://wpi-forum.jsps.go.jp/interview/
Current members
Christine Houser, Matthieu Laneuville, Hanako Ricciardi, Lucy Kwok, Ramses Ramirez, Reiko Nagano, Thilina Heenatigala, Henderson Jim Cleaves, Yuka Fujii
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ELSI’s Global Environment Team (GET) was assembled by ELSI members who had interest in supporting ELSI in its goals of achieving member diversity on par with international standards for the research fields represented at ELSI. The team is keeping a balance of female/male, Japanese/non-Japanese members, and theoretical/laboratory based researchers.
Contact us
Consider reporting the potential misconduct you witnessed to us, in order to prevent similar issues from spreading.