Bhalla Lab

Strategies to Improve Equity

Can rubrics combat gender bias in faculty hiring?

Why so Few, Still? Challenges to Attracting, Advancing, and Keeping Women Faculty of Color in Academia

Moving Beyond Implicit Bias Training: Policy Insights for Increasing Organizational Diversity

A new framework for assessing the contributions of professionals in the natural sciences

The Citation Diversity Statement: A Practice of Transparency, A Way of Life

Defining the Flow—Using an Intersectional Scientific Methodology to Construct a VanguardSTEM Hyperspace

Scientific societies fostering inclusivity through speaker diversity in annual meeting programming: a call to action

Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know

Retention of Underrepresented Minority Faculty: Strategic Initiatives for Institutional Value Proposition Based on Perspectives From a Range of Academic Institutions

Five years post-DORA: promoting best practices for research assessment

Signaling Safety: Characterizing Fieldwork Experiences and Their Implications for Career Trajectories

“Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence

“We Are All for Diversity, but . . .”: How Faculty Hiring Committees Reproduce Whiteness and Practical Suggestions for How They Can Change

Building and Sustaining Diverse Functioning Networks Using Social Media and Digital Platforms to Improve Diversity and Inclusivity

Gender Equity: Addressing recruitment at the departmental level

Institutional Interventions That Remove Barriers to Recruit and Retain Diverse Biomedical PhD Students

Women’s visibility in academic seminars: Women ask fewer questions than men

Graduate Recruitment Initiative Team (GRIT) Application Guide

Strategies to improve equity in faculty hiring

A Beginner’s Guide to Minority Professor Hires

Number #1 overall draft picks and minority hires

10 Small Steps for Department Chairs to Foster Inclusion

Ten simple rules for building an anti-racist lab

Everyone must be able to breathe: A plan to support diversity and inclusion in respiratory physiology

We Built a Diverse Academic Department in 5 Years. Here’s How.

Structural Solutions for the Rarest of the Rare - Underrepresented-Minority Faculty in Medical Subspecialties

Recreating Wakanda by promoting Black excellence in ecology and evolution

Opinion: Use science to stop sexual harassment in higher education

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Racial inequity in grant funding from the US National Institutes of Health

Resources for Culturally Competent Mentoring

Mentoring Across Differences

From Deficits to Possibilities: Mentoring Lessons from Plants on Cultivating Individual Growth through Environmental Assessment and Optimization

The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM

Collectors, Nightlights, and Allies, Oh My

Bias/Disparities in Education, Training and/or Professional Advancement

Counteroffers for faculty at research universities: who gets them, who doesn’t, and what factors produce them?

Gendered hiring and attrition on the path to parity for academic faculty

Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty

The Facade of Fit in Faculty Search Processes

Science Faculty's Subtle Gender Biases Favor Male Students

Survey of Academic Field Experiences (SAFE): Trainees Report Harassment and Assault

Biomedical Science Ph.D. Career Interest Patterns by Race/Ethnicity and Gender

Elite Male Faculty in the Life Sciences Employ Fewer Women

Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines

Career Development Among American Biomedical Postdocs

Ethnic Variation in Gender-STEM Stereotypes and STEM Participation: An Intersectional Approach

Systematic Inequality and Hierarchy in Faculty Hiring Networks

How Pay and Representation Differentially Shape Bias on the Pathway Into Organizations

Double jeopardy in astronomy and planetary science: Women of color face greater risks of gendered and racial harassment

Questioning Assumptions

Gender Disparities Among Independent Fellows in Biomedical Research

Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Post-Doc Interviews in the Life Sciences: An Often-Overlooked Process that Is Susceptible to Bias

Public Discussion Affects Question Asking at Academic Conferences

How Gender and Race Stereotypes Impact the Advancement of Scholars in STEM: Professors’ Biased Evaluations of Physics and Biology Post-Doctoral Candidates

The Diversity-Innovation Paradox in Science

Understanding persistent gender gaps in STEM

Systemic inequalities for LGBTQ professionals in STEM

Bias/Disparities in Publication and Peer review

Publishing While Female: are Women Held to Higher Standards? Evidence from Peer Review

Double-blind review favours increased representation of female authors

The Role of Gender in Scholarly Authorship

Is Science Built on the Shoulders of Women? A Study of Gender Differences in Contributorship

Time-to-Credit Gender Inequities of First-Year PhD Students in the Biological Sciences

Publications as predictors of racial and ethnic differences in NIH research awards

Author-Reviewer Homophily in Peer Review

Gender inequalities among authors who contributed equally

Unprofessional peer reviews disproportionately harm underrepresented groups in STEM

Is there a gender gap in chemical sciences scholarly communication?

Bias/Disparities in Grant Peer Review and Funding

Systemic racial disparities in funding rates at the National Science Foundation

Nepotism and sexism in peer-review

The Gender Gap in NIH Grant Applications

Race, Ethnicity, and NIH Research Awards

Are Race, Ethnicity, and Medical School Affiliation Associated With NIH R01 Type 1 Award Probability for Physician Investigators?

Women in Biomedical Research: NIH’s Analysis of women’s success in research and NIH extramural programs

Sex Differences in Institutional Support for Junior Biomedical Researchers

Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and National Institutes of Health R01 Research Awards: Is There Evidence of a Double Bind for Women of Color?

Analysis of National Institutes of Health R01 Application Critiques, Impact, and Criteria Scores: Does the Sex of the Principal Investigator Make a Difference?

Examining the distribution of K99/R00 awards by race

The gender gap in early career transitions in the life sciences

Assessment of potential bias in research grant peer review in Canada

Topic choice contributes to the lower rate of NIH awards to African-American/black scientists

Are gender gaps due to evaluations of the applicant or the science? A natural experiment at a national funding agency

NIH peer review: Criterion scores completely account for racial disparities in overall impact scores

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Racial inequity in grant funding from the US National Institutes of Health

Bias/Disparities in Teaching Evaluations

Evidence of Bias in Standard Evaluations of Teaching

Exploring the Personal and Professional Factors Associated With Student Evaluations of Tenure-Track Faculty

Bias/Disparities in Service

Faculty Service Loads and Gender: Are Women Taking Care of the Academic Family?

Underrepresented Faculty Play a Disproportionate Role in Advancing Diversity and Inclusion

Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia

Gendered and Racialized Perceptions of Faculty Workloads