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Prioritizing safety and safeguarding against identity-based harassment and other exclusionary behaviors in field campaigns is critical to ensure safe and productive research environments. While harassment and discrimination in the field are not new phenomena, widespread recognition of their prevalence and harm has led to demands for increased training and preparation and culture change. That is where ADVANCEing FieldSafety comes in.
Sign up for the brand new ADVANCING FieldSafety online course, the synchronous reflection session, and check out our toolkit to support field teams in planning welcoming, inclusive, and safe field campaigns, and offer a certificate program.
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Featured in this Issue:
- Online Self-Paced Course Launch
- Debrief Workshops
- Field Safety Toolkit
- Become a Research Participant
- Resources & Tips
- Participant Highlights
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ADVANCEing FieldSafety offers a certificate training program that includes field safety, anti-harassment, and bystander intervention and is supported by a toolkit with ready-to-go templates and materials to customize safety plans and support systems for field teams and individuals as they plan safe and inclusive field campaigns.
A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is available and hosted on Coursera, allowing easy access and broad participation. The MOOC will have both participation (online, self-paced) and certification pathways (participation + facilitated debriefs/reflections) that will help field teams meet NSF’s new PAPPG field safety and anti-harassment mitigation requirements.
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A fully self-paced course that explores all aspects of field safety in seven training modules, includes voices from the field, actionable tips and skits that play out field scenarios covering content from risk management to leadership, mentoring to cultural awareness and much more. | |
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After completing the ADVANCEing FieldSafety online course, you and your field team can sign up to participate in a two-part, live, virtually-facilitated debrief workshop where we help you practice developing the course content on your own or with your team.
Learn more about the Debrief Workshops.
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An ADVANCEing FieldSafety Toolkit includes checklists, examples, fillable documents, and implementation guides that field teams can use to set codes of conduct, codes of ethics, surveys, reporting instruments, and structures to facilitate quick response in the field for different field contexts.
Each module is supported by customized resources. Learn more about the ADVANCEing FieldSafety Toolkit
If you have a resource that you would like our team to consider, please share it with us by following this link.
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The online course content is supported by Voices from the Field – experienced field researchers who share their experiences in creating safe and inclusive field environments.
To learn more about them, visit our website.
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By Meghie Rodrigues
Learn about the psychological toll of the impact of climate change on researchers conducting fieldwork.
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More From ADVANCEing FieldSafety | |
As part of the ADVANCEing Field Safety program goals, we will research the effectiveness of the training program in creating culture change within the field community. To do this, we will be recruiting full-field teams to participate in an ADVANCEing FieldSafety research study that involves participating in surveys throughout the training program and in interviews and/or focus groups. | |
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Sign up here if you and your field team are interested in participating in our research!
Click here to visit our website for more information about our research.
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In 2020, FieldSafe (now ADVANCEing FieldSafety) provided a three-part hybrid workshop with asynchronous, self-paced coupled with synchronous “live” facilitated discussion sessions covering topics such as Codes of Conduct, Communication, Decision-Making, and Bystander Intervention (in partnership with ADVANCEGeo).
Read what participants in our 2020 pilot workshop had to say about the course.
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Connect with us on LinkedIn! We will be posting resources, tips and strategies related to field safety and sharing upcoming events (e.g., Debrief Workshop sessions, AFS seminars/talks, etc.)
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Attending the 2024 Geological Society Meeting?
Come and hear more about ADVANCEing FieldSafety from one of our team members, Blair Schneider, on Wednesday, September 25 at 11:15 AM in room 208A (ACC).
Learn more about Blair's GSA presentation.
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Also, be sure to check out the ADVANCEing FieldSafety website for more information. |
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ADVANCEing FieldSafety is a three-year grant funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Research, Innovation, Synergies, and Education (RISE) within NSF’s Directorate for Geosciences (GEO), award numbers: 2307410, 2307411, 2307412, and 2307413. | |
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