Developing and Writing your Job Application EDI Statement for Postdoctoral Fellows

Equity, diversity, and inclusion statements are increasingly becoming a vital part of job application packages, especially for those pursuing careers in the academe. This 90-minute session will provide tips and strategies for developing and writing your personal EDI statement, using example statements to illustrate best practices. It will also briefly review background and context as to why EDI is vital in research and work environments, as well as how to align a job applicant’s experience and principles to an institution’s EDI strategies.

FACILITATOR

Dr. Stephanie van Willigenburg

Professor, Mathematics and Associate Dean: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion; Faculty of Science

Dr. Stephanie van Willigenburg is a Professor of Mathematics. Her awards for research include winning the Krieger-Nelson Prize from the Canadian Mathematical Society, and the Robbins Prize from the Mathematical Association of America. She has won a Killam Award for her teaching, and is passionate about mentorship. During her time as Associate Head Research in the Mathematics Department she organized a yearly Job Forum on how to apply for positions inside and outside academia after your postdoc or PhD. Stephanie is currently the Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Science at UBC that also oversees faculty hiring in Science, has served on many hiring committees, and is one of the co-founders of the Algebraic Combinatorics Research Community to foster mentoring, collaborations and networking for minorities in her area of algebraic combinatorics and related areas.

Registration

Registration in this session is required and is now open. Those successfully registered will receive a registration confirmation within one week of the session date.

NO-SHOW PENALTY: If you register and do not attend or cancel after 3pm on the day before the event, it may affect your eligibility to join future events. To avoid this no-show penalty, please cancel by at least 3pm the day before the event by e-mailing postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.ca.

Accessibility

If you have a disability, medical condition, or other accessibility require that may affect your full participation in the event, please email postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.ca in advance of the event.

PDFO EVENT COMMUNITY AGREEMENT

The PDFO has created a community agreement for our events in order to foster an inclusive, welcoming, and respectful environment in which all event attendees feel safe and supported.

By participating in a PDFO event, we commit ourselves to:

• Treating one another with kindness, courtesy and respect in all interactions;
• Engaging in gracious, active listening and valuing others’ opinions;
• Not dominating discussions so that others can share during the session;
• Ensuring that any potentially confidential or sensitive information shared as part of the session is not shared outside of the session;
• Actively participating in the session; and
• If comfortable sharing audio and/or video to create a greater sense of community and participation.