To address barriers that racialized women with non-native accents experience in the Canadian workplace, we need to understand what kinds of bias they face.
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The Punan Batu is one of the most active nomadic hunter-gatherer groups still existing in the world. They have unique characteristics that are different from other groups in Borneo.
As a woman living on the disability support pension put it: ‘You don’t have the flexibility that a rich person has to respond to crisis, so you have to beg for help. And you know you’ll be judged’.
Communities that are underrepresented in research may also be at increased risk for dementia, or tend to experience dementia differently, often with poorer quality of care, later diagnoses and at possibly higher rates than the general population.
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Much dementia research does not reflect ethnically diverse communities. Studies used to make policy, clinical and investment decisions in dementia should reflect the diverse Canadian population.
Ecosystems thrive in places where human connections with nature go back generations.
A section of Quarry Road informal settlement in Durban after severe flooding in April 2019 where research was undertaken by local scientists.
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Climate change science dominated by knowledge produced in the global North cannot address the particular challenges faced by those living in the global South.
Privacy starts with the body and extends to digital data. There are few rules governing what companies can do – yet people can’t effectively protect their own privacy.
What factors contribute to some places having many, while other places have few?
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Linguists have a lot of largely untested theories. Borrowing a tool from ecology, researchers built a model that didn’t look for one worldwide explanation.
A diverse coalition is resisting pipelines and other big projects.
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By appealing to the hearts and minds of their white neighbors, Native Americans are carving out common ground. Together, these different groups are building unity through diversity.
Interpreters enable patients to be fully informed about their health condition and options for treatment.
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Australia is a cultural melting pot, but our blood donors are less diverse. We need a broad mix of ethnicities in our donor pool to meet the needs of patients with rare blood types.
By only working in their own backyards, what do psychology researchers miss about human behavior?
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Ninety percent of psychology studies come from countries representing less than 15 percent of the world’s population. Researchers are realizing that universalizing those findings might not make sense.