Duke Graduate School

Scholarly publishing, like many facets of the academic world, faces challenges and opportunities for improvement when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion. In this week’s blog post, learn how a recent Duke event brought together representatives from Duke UP, Oxford UP, and local faculty to consider how we might make progress together.

Most of us would like to think that we are not biased, but research shows that this is unfortunately not the case. Read on to find out how the Biology Department recently addressed these issues with a workshop on breaking the bias habit, and consider how their strategies may be helpful for you.

If we, as Duke students and postdocs, want to address the issue of diversity and encourage others to do the same, why can't we be the ones to instigate it?