Past Meeting Topics
Here you can find a list of topics discussed in meetings in previous calendar years.
The table below gives the topic titles discussed while more detail can be found by clicking the link next to the year.
The schedule for the current year can be found on the Equitea home page.
| Month | Meeting Topic |
|---|---|
| January | What does effective outreach look like? |
| February | The Neurodiversity Toolkit |
| March | Personal Experiences of Leaving Academia |
| April | The Paths to Inclusion |
| May | Immigration and visa barriers in academia |
| June | Disabilities in Academia |
| September | Leaving and re-entering academia: My weird career path |
| Month | Meeting Topic |
|---|---|
| January | What's in an Image?: Looking to an Equitable Future for Astronomy |
| February | Conferences: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
| March | Managing Mental Health and Wellbeing in Academia |
| April | Some Equitea Reflections from Aotearoa, New Zealand |
| May | The Impact of Having a Stutter in Academia |
| June | Equitea Retrospective |
| July | Equitea Literature Review |
| September | Transparency in Organising Astronomy Seminars |
| October | Imposter Syndrome |
| November | The Tactile Universe: Accessible Astrophysics Public Engagement with the Vision Impaired Community |
| Month | Meeting Topic |
|---|---|
| January | Equitea Anniversary: Reflection & Feedback |
| February | Gender Parity in Question-Asking at Conferences - An Overview of Previous Studies and Plans for NAM 2022 |
| March | How to be an Active Bystander |
| May | Hidden Struggles of the Non-Native Speaker in Academia |
| June | Disability in Academia |
| July | "Decolonising Astronomy" - Why should we care? |
| August | Behind the Name: JWST |
| September | WAKE Discussion Session |
| October | An Introduction to Academia |
| Month | Meeting Topic |
|---|---|
| January |
Introduction to Equitea, Code of Conduct and anonymous Q&A system |
| February | Moving for your Career in Astronomy |
| March | The Challenges of Maternity and Academia |
| April | Portrayal of Women in Science Fiction |
| May | Unseen Neurodiversity in Academia |
| June |
The impact of COVID-19 on faculty productivity and wellbeing: results from a faculty survey at the University of British Columbia |
| NAM 2021 (June) |
NAM 2021 Session Diversifying the future: opening astronomy and geophysics to all Talk - Creating Equitea: a monthly forum to discuss topics related to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) in Astronomy, Physics, and STEM |
| July | Resource Sharing Session |
| August | Astronomy for Development: the Namibian Example |
| September | Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Academic Conferences: A Discussion |
| October | Transphobia, TERFs and their emergence in academia |
| November | What is Islamophobia? |