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The EDI in Research team supports all members of the UCalgary research community to effectively embed EDI in research design, practice, and administration. Our work aligns with the two organizing principles of the UCalgary model of EDIA in research:

Nothing About Us Without Us, and
One Size Does Not Fit All

Our Approach

The EDI in Research team aims to bring appreciative and strengths-focused approaches to supporting all members of the UCalgary research community to effectively embed EDI in research design, practice, and administration.

Consultations: Through 1:1 consultations or workshops and programming, our goal is to continually explore and support a mastery of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (EDIA) principles, leading to effective and meaningful actions.

Connect with our team to move from EDI as a checkbox to EDI a sandbox!

For Researchers:

Specialized consultations for effectively addressing EDI in research practice and design in competitive funding applications
Host workshops and programming tailored to competition requirements
Develop evidence-informed EDI actions for competitive funding opportunities including:
- detailed EDI review and consultations (DG, CREATE, NFRF)
- advising research teams on competition requirements and EDI action plans

For Research Administrators

Process and practice support including:
- consultations and end-to-end review of internal funding programs (administration, evaluation, and adjudication)
- collaborate for faculty specific programming such as EDI in Peer Review, Building Blocks for EDIA statements, Writing Effective reference letters Catalyst, and Postdoc Slam
- EDI in peer review training
- EDI data
Support for institutional EDI strategies and action plans including:
- Canada Research Chairs (CRC) EDI action plan
- Dimensions EDI action plan
- working group on EDI Research and Scholarship (presidential task force membership)
- EDI plan for Research and Teaching Awards

View: UCalgary’s Dimensions EDI Action Plan

Nothing About Us Without Us

This idea draws from disability, racial justice and Indigenous activism, which insist that any initiative involving EDG group members must be developed by and co-constituted through direct engagement with them.

One Size Does Not Fit All

We recognized the importance of this notion, along with eschewing the practice of standardized or formulaic approaches to EDI and accessibility. This repudiation is crucial to designing and co-constituted policy approaches by, with and for members of each Equity Deserving Group (EDG).

Action Plans
CRC EDI action plan
Dimensions EDI action plan
EDI plan for Research and Teaching Awards

Design and Implement

Design and Implement - home
Ethics, Animal Care, and Biosafety
Research Security Division (RSD)
Research Data Management (RDM)
Knowledge to Impact (KI)
Indigenous Research Support (IRST)
Transdisciplinary Scholarship (ITS)
Office of Institutional Commitments (EDI)

EDI plans for funding applications presentation landing page

Presentation: EDI plans for funding applications

EDI Plans are required for some Tri-Council funding applications. This presentation provides:

An understanding of how EDI is tied to research excellence
Initial and essential learning to develop an authentic, high-impact EDI plan in a research program/team, and
Skills to address EDI-related selection criteria and avoid common issues in Tri-council funding applications.

Download: PDF Presentation
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The resources below provide foundational knowledge about Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and its role in research and teaching. It is recommended that all faculty and staff familiarize themselves with these foundational resources prior to accessing the grant-specific resources below.

Foundational and general EDI and accessibility learning workshops are available from OIC.

Visit: Office of Institutional Commitments (OIC- EDI)

UCalgary Foundational Resources for EDI

The Language of EDI (OIC)

This glossary maintained by the OEDI contains definitions of commonly used terms in equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility.

EDI Data Hub (OIC)

The EDI Data Hub contains reports on the demographics of our university community, including the EDI Dashboard and campus census information, as well as resources on EDI data in the Canadian post secondary context.

Dimensions: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Canada

Dimensions aims to foster transformational change within the research ecosystem at Canadian post- secondary institutions by identifying and eliminating obstacles and inequities in order to support equitable and inclusive access, participation and creation of research.

EDI in Reserach and Teaching Awards

The University of Calgary Research and Teaching Awards Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Plan was developed to embed a foundational commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in identifying and nominating candidates for external research and teaching excellence awards.

Anti-Black Racism (OIC)

These resources highlight the diversity of the Black population in Alberta and Canada through stories, statistical profiles, books, films, as well as specific actions we can engage in to educate ourselves and to advance racial justice.