The Field Safety Training: Changing the Culture of Fieldwork course provides field research team leaders and field team participants with the skills and tools to build a welcoming and inclusive field culture. This course will help you and your team develop norms and codes of conduct, and review or clarify leadership and field team organization. Additionally, you and your team will learn how to identify unsafe and harmful behaviors, respond appropriately to dissipate and mitigate these behaviors, and support those impacted by the behaviors. Finally, the course will provide tools to create, build and support inclusive mentorship, consider additional factors for mitigating risk to diverse individuals in the field, and how to build cultural inclusivity within your team.
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Field Safety Training: Changing the Culture of Fieldwork
Instructors: Erika Marin-Spiotta
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What you'll learn
Improve team culture and interpersonal communication and foster shared experiences, resources, and cultural knowledge.
Establish mutually acceptable guidelines, norms and standards for the fieldwork, including codes of conduct.
Establish formal and informal support programs and safe reporting procedures for field teams.
Implement field safety protocols, fieldwork hazards and emergency response planning in field campaigns.
Skills you'll gain
- Ethical Standards And Conduct
- Discussion Facilitation
- Intercultural Competence
- Teamwork
- Cooperation
- Conflict Management
- Communication Strategies
- Mitigation
- Cultural Diversity
- Initiative and Leadership
- Recognizing Others
- Mentorship
- Trustworthiness
- Emergency Response
- Decision Making
- Diversity Equity and Inclusion Initiatives
- Leadership
- Cultural Sensitivity
- Diversity Awareness
- Safety and Security
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There are 7 modules in this course
Welcome! The course introduction will discuss the outline and format of the course. We will also introduce our course instructors. Module 1 covers evaluating and preparing for hazards in field environments.
What's included
8 videos5 readings1 assignment
Module 2 covers the fundamentals of communication tools, such as leadership roles, decision-making styles, and briefing/debriefing techniques.
What's included
6 videos1 reading1 assignment
Module 3 focuses on developing codes of conduct including institutional rules, values statements, and norms agreements.
What's included
6 videos1 reading2 assignments
Module 4 covers responding to and maintaining safe, inclusive, and positive spaces.
What's included
4 videos1 reading1 assignment
Module 5 centers on inclusive mentoring.
What's included
6 videos1 reading1 assignment
Module 6 covers keeping diverse field teams safe across a wide range of identities.
What's included
7 videos1 reading1 assignment
Module 7 focuses on building inclusive teams across cultures.
What's included
6 videos2 readings1 assignment1 peer review
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