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Meeting notes: Project Biodiversify

Meeting notes: Project Biodiversify

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Original email I sent

Hello!

My name is Katie, and I am a recent graduate at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. I'm reaching out because I'm a physicist who is also passionate about representation and equity in STEM, and I'm really inspired by your project! I am currently working with some colleagues at McGill in the Education as well as Physics department to create a slide-deck of contemporary physicists to be used in McGill undergraduate classrooms, and maybe beyond.

We stumbled on this project while doing research, and we realized that the structure of Project Biodiversify is very similar to what we are envisioning to do for our physics community. We are hoping that you wouldn't mind us taking inspiration!

As a group starting a new project, we are also very receptive to advice from those further along the line. If possible, we would love to know if there are any tips you would be able to share for someone starting a similar project, or things that you wish you had known or done differently if you could go back to the beginning of the development of your project.

Project Biodiversify is truly a wonderful resource. Thank you for any guidance you might be able to give!

Best Regards,

Katie Savard

Meeting: 27 May 2021

My questions:

  • Who was your target audience when starting this project?
    • How did you cater your content to this audience
  • Who uses your slides now?
  • How did you start the project?
  • What were the difficulties you faced?
  • Most time-consuming aspects of the project?
  • What advice do you have for someone starting a similar project from scratch

Meeting notes:

  • Give people the option to not be searched by identity / let them choose what identities they want to be public
  • They focused a lot on consent, all people included had to give consent
  • Humanizing information helps students
  • Request lots of feedback → especially anonymous feedback! Set up a google form for anonymous feedback on your website 1st thing
  • Wordpress is flexible, you get a free 30 min introduction
  • Enable google analytics on your webpage
  • IUSE → measure the success of your slides in the classroom , this ensures future funding and can promote the use of your slides, you can also include research done before about inclusion of representative scientists and its effect on learning outcomes and/or belonging
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Their audience was mainly for teaching sex and gender related biology topics, and humanize biology as a field.

Our audience is more for the general inclusion of a more diverse set of physicists that represents our modern-day community.

They said the most time-consuming aspect was coming up with the format, exactly what they wanted to present.

They made the website from scratch.