Identity and Belonging in Science, An Asking Different Questions training

How does our identity and position in the world affect our work as researchers? To what extent do we “fit in” to the culture of our lab and field? How is this fit influenced by histories of the field and the shaping of disciplines? How does this affect the research questions a field prioritizes? This video will prepare a research community to discussion how historically salient identities such as race, gender, sexuality, class, nationality, and disability affect cultural norms of science. They can also explore how starting from different social assumptions can produce knowledge aimed at increasing social justice.
This video is part of the Asking Different Questions research training series, put on by the Feminist Research Institute at UC Davis. Please visit fri.ucdavis.edu.
We apologize that the name of the main character in the story is mispronounced, an enactment of the very dynamics discussed. This will be corrected in future recordings and trainings.