Friday, October 29, 2021 3-6pm EST (Research Session). ALTHOUGH INTERVIEWS CAN BE SCHEDULED AT ANOTHER TIME.
Organisers: the Disciplinary Inclusion Task Force (DITF) on how Society for Conservation Biology (SCB).
Title: What does conservation mean to non-members of SCB? Scheduled 30-minute interviews to help the Disciplinary Inclusion Task Force make the Society more relevant to you.
Register for interviews here: or copy/paste this URL into your browser: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_l-uXRQhBzhx0FHDP9JaIqf5C4NU-6Y3hZ9TLj6P7FPepMA/viewform
Maximum Participants: Unlimited Non-Members
Workshop Summary
The results will provide insights to the Disciplinary Inclusion Task Force (DITF) on how Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) can achieve its mission to sustain biodiversity for today and tomorrow by cultivating a more diverse and inclusive global community, through a better understanding of the barriers to membership across disciplines, and recommendations on how to increase disciplinary inclusion and engagement within the society.
To that end, the SCB’s DITF hopes that participants that are not SCB members will share details of their connection to conservation to inform our efforts to be more representative of everyone contributing to the field.
Non-members interested in helping the DITF can sign up for an interview that will last for no more than 30 minutes to discuss their perspectives on conservation and how their discipline contributes to conservation, and how they view SCB’s place in the conservation community. These interviews will be scheduled within the timeslot for this Research Session if possible, but they can be scheduled at other times to avoid clashes or otherwise at the convenience of the interviewee. In general, participants will be asked to self-identify their main professional discipline of work, and share how they first got into conservation and/or what conservation means to them. Follow-on questions will relate a little more about how included they feel in SCB, and the conservation community more broadly.
Questions are being informed by the preliminary results of the accompanying survey, which is currently open to all non-members: https://bit.ly/ConservInclusion. All participants will be asked to complete this survey ahead of the session, although completion of that survey will not be mandatory. Similarly, you do not need to attend this session to complete the survey: we ask that every non-member attending ConsMark consider completing the survey regardless of their involvement in these interviews.
About The Taskforce:
Addressing today’s conservation challenges requires in-depth understandings of the complex interaction between ecological and human systems. Including and integrating disparate disciplines in conservation offers an opportunity to gain these crucial understandings. In 2020, the SCB established the DITF to explore and promote disciplinary diversity within the Society. The DITF is conducting wide-ranging evaluations of SCB, including potential members, to understand disciplinary inclusion and engagement.
Find out more about the DITF here: https://conbio.org/about-scb/who-we-are/committees/disciplinary-inclusion-task-force/.