Anti-Harassment Best Practices Workshop
This workshop will bring leaders of anti-harassment efforts together to share ideas and discuss best practice methods to reduce harassment in the science workplace.
Intended Audience:
The science professional community, including field-work intensive sectors. This includes government and academia.
Logistics:
A 3-day workshop at the BLM National Training Center in Phoenix, titled:
“Preventing Harassment in Science: Building a Community of Practice Toward Meaningful Change”.
Objectives:
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Summary of existing data and literature on harassment in sciences.
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Review of anti-harassment programs, training methods, codes of conduct, and reporting mechanisms in science-based academic and government institutions.
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Convene active agents of change and leaders in harassment prevention to exchange ideas and best practices in several focus areas organized around harassment prevention in federal-sector scientific workplaces, academia, and field-work-intensive settings.
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Utilize data synthesis and input from the workshop participants to produce a white paper summarizing current best practices for publication as a peer-reviewed journal article.
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Establish or recommend specific common data collection methods among participants for interoperability and comparability of metrics that measure impact of best practices.
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Create a community of practice to continue to engage in anti-harassment efforts.
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Plan for future workshops to revisit best practices and report-out on ongoing data collection/results.