26 March 2025 | 10:30 - 12:00 (MDT)
Open Session - HYBRID
Room: UMC Second Floor - 235
Organisers: Otto Habeck (Universität Hamburg); Tahnee Prior (Dalhousie University); Malgorzata Smieszek-Rice (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Session Description:
This session and roundtable will revise recent and ongoing activities related to gender, equity, diversity, and inclusion in polar research. We have come a long way discussing research labor conditions, implementing diversity and equity in the scientific community and in capacity building for future generations. These topics require further debate: how can they be incorporated and reflected in future research priorities? How can they be included in research funding frameworks? How do they tie into research policy making? We invite participants to reflect on research practices, research policies, and research agendas. We hope for the participation of Indigenous and local actors, early-career research organisations, queer activists in Polar research, IASC and SCAR working groups and committees, research funding agencies, polar research policy actors – beyond that, everyone interested is welcome! The aim of the session is to formulate input into ICARP IV and the International Polar Year 2032-33.