Inclusivity

Creating family-friendly conferences in geosciences: a new study needs your help!

Elena Päffgen June 18, 2024

A parent sits with their child in a pushchair beside them during a talk at the EGU General Assembly EGU23. Permission for the photograph given by parent at the time. (Credit: Hazel Gibson, EGU)

Do you think managing a scientific career and having a family is difficult? Would you like to see more family support at conferences? So do we! ‘We’ are Lisa Schielicke, Leonie Esters, and Elena Päffgen from the Meteorological Department of the University of Bonn in Germany. Together, we are working on the project “Family-Friendly Conferences in the Geosciences” to increase ...[Read More]

Mind Your Head: How to have a mindful December and holiday season

ECS group: Work-Life Balance December 1, 2023

The EGU Life-Work-Balance group takes you on the road to a healthy life-work-balance. Behind every curve on this road, new aspects of mindfulness at work await you. (Image Credit: Ökyü Koç)

It’s December and the Life-Work-Balance group is recalling the “Mind Your Head” blog posts, a blogpost series which started in May 2018. We invite you to join our journey through 11 inspiring blog posts and five simple activities to foster our life-work-balance, revive knowledge and find new inspiration during this holiday season. A word at the beginning: perhaps your current life and daily routin ...[Read More]

Support inclusive geosciences by taking this workplace survey today!

Andrea Popp May 19, 2023

Credit: Dan Parsons (from imaggeo.egu.eu)

By Andrea L. Popp, Anouk Beniest, Anita Di Chiara, Derya Gürer, Elenora van Rijsingen, Mengze Li and Simone Pieber. The geoscience community has long been recognized as one of the least diverse scientific fields. However, the extent to which this homogeneity affects workplace climate, particularly for under-represented groups, remains unclear (Berhe et al., 2022; Popp et al., 2019). Documented ins ...[Read More]

The geological period that no one talks about: menstruation in the field

Robyn Pickering and Rivoningo Khosa May 12, 2023

Photo credit: Human Evolution Research Institute (HERI)

Try typing the phrase ‘period in geosciences’ into Google. You’ll get something like ‘divisions of geological time’, and how we divide ancient earth time into eras, periods and epochs. We learn about this in the first year and again in every subsequent year of geological training. We are both geochronologists, so this is a topic we are deeply familiar with. But we are also both women. To us, and e ...[Read More]