“The Missing Link”

Spates, Kamesha

doi:10.1177/2158244012455179

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“…Black, Latina, and other women of color, who are further marginalized by the interaction of gender and race, are particularly absent in neuroscience research ( Spates, 2012 ; Gatzke-Kopp, 2016 ). For example, a systematic literature review reported that women and racial/ethnic minorities were underrepresented in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of cardiovascular disease ( Jones et al, 2020 ).…”

Section: Bias In Neuroscientific Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Equity, diversity, and inclusion in developmental neuroscience: Practical lessons from community-based participatory research

Scala¹,

Mullins²,

Firat³

et al. 2023

Front. Integr. Neurosci.

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Exclusion of racialized minorities in neuroscience directly harms communities and potentially leads to biased prevention and intervention approaches. As magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and other neuroscientific techniques offer progressive insights into the neurobiological underpinnings of mental health research agendas, it is incumbent on us as researchers to pay careful attention to issues of diversity and representation as they apply in neuroscience research. Discussions around these issues are based largely on scholarly expert opinion without actually involving the community under study. In contrast, community-engaged approaches, specifically Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), actively involve the population of interest in the research process and require collaboration and trust between community partners and researchers. This paper outlines a community-engaged neuroscience approach for the development of our developmental neuroscience study on mental health outcomes in preadolescent Latina youth. We focus on “positionality” (the multiple social positions researchers and the community members hold) and “reflexivity” (the ways these positions affect the research process) as conceptual tools from social sciences and humanities. We propose that integrating two unique tools: a positionality map and Community Advisory Board (CAB) into a CBPR framework can counter the biases in human neuroscience research by making often invisible–or taken-for-granted power dynamics visible and bolstering equitable participation of diverse communities in scientific research. We discuss the benefits and challenges of incorporating a CBPR method in neuroscience research with an illustrative example of a CAB from our lab, and highlight key generalizable considerations in research design, implementation, and dissemination that we hope are useful for scholars wishing to take similar approaches.

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Section: Bias In Neuroscientific Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Equity, diversity, and inclusion in developmental neuroscience: Practical lessons from community-based participatory research

Scala¹,

Mullins²,

Firat³

et al. 2023

Front. Integr. Neurosci.

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“…Therefore, open science as a field should respond to these concerns by working to distribute power more equally and democratize knowledge-making (Istratii & Porter, 2018;Spates, 2012). Open science advocates should re-examine past practices to demonstrate awareness of cultural biases which reinforce unequal power structures in open science, so as not to perpetuate Eurocentric discourse and enforce the social values that (re)create power imbalances (Spates, 2012). In this context, before encouraging openness as a status quo in psychological science, we must consider what else is being opened up in the process and who governs this process (Bahlai et al, 2019).…”

Section: Barriers To Participation In Open Science As a Feminist Ecrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating Open Science as Early Career Feminist Researchers

Pownall

Talbot

Henschel

et al. 2021

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Open science aims to improve the rigor, robustness, and reproducibility of psychological research. Despite resistance from some academics, the open science movement has been championed by some early career researchers (ECRs), who have proposed innovative new tools and methods to promote and employ open research principles. Feminist ECRs have much to contribute to this emerging way of doing research. However, they face unique barriers, which may prohibit their full engagement with the open science movement. We, 10 feminist ECRs in psychology from a diverse range of academic and personal backgrounds, explore open science through a feminist lens to consider how voice and power may be negotiated in unique ways for ECRs. Taking a critical and intersectional approach, we discuss how feminist early career research may be complemented or challenged by shifts towards open science. We also propose how ECRs can act as grass-roots changemakers within the context of academic precarity. We identify ways in which open science can benefit from feminist epistemology and end with envisaging a future for feminist ECRs who wish to engage with open science practices in their own research.

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“…To begin, in the western sciences, Black women's psychology has routinely been relegated to the margins (Spates, 2012;Cole, 2020), and therefore much is still left to be researched, and understood, about Black women's lived experiences, beyond the field of sociology (Collins, 2009). As a direct consequence of this gap, the process of surveying literature on the psychology of Black women (Spates, 2012;Thomas, 2004;Cole, 2020), within the context of this research, was found to be a predictably challenging endeavour. Not only, was this compounded by the dearth of research available, on Black women, more generally, in psychology, but also within this…”

Section: Synthesising Literature Across Academic Disciplinesmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…(Mirza, 1997), who indicated the importance of "placing the remembered past" at the centre of her own analysis (1997, p. 191), which I intend to do here. Also, to address the research aims, and probable causes for underresearched lived experiences, which continue to persist in the study of the psychology of Black women (Cole, 2020;Spates, 2012;Thomas, 2004) and the Western sciences, more generally, this section also sought to integrate literature, institutional, and governmental publications that could highlight the fundamental role the Western sciences played in the development of "arbitrary constructions of human division" (Wilkerson, 2020, p. 37), rooted in White supremacist ideology, as it could be said to operationalise in the WEIRD music industry. As this harmful belief and indoctrination system still massively impacts Black people, people of colour (POC), as well as White minority and ethnic groups, in both societies today (Yakushko, 2019), this was important to centre, to frame how this informed this research.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To illustrate the significance for conducting this research, for this critical time in human history, to co-advance humanity, equality, and equity, in organisations and sector, that make up MIE, which has been alleged to be systemically biased (NAACP Economic Development, 1987), for centuries; and 2. To demonstrate how I intend to make an original contribution to the field of industrial-organisational psychology, as there is a dearth of research available that has centred on Black women's experiences (Spates, 2012;Cole, 2020), and more specifically, on Black women who work in the creative-centric fields, but within traditional business roles, such as the music industry.…”

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Forget me not: demarginalising trailblazing and leading Black women’s WEIRD industrial, organisational, and societal career experiences with “power” in the world’s top music industry ecosystems

Blackwell¹

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Governments in the UK and US passed a slew of acts and laws, from 1960s onward, to prohibit discriminatory practices aimed at marginalised groups, across business and society. Despite these landmark rulings, it is still the case that ideological, institutional, interpersonal, and internalised acts of dehumanisation continue to permeate WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized [sic], Rich, and Democratic) consciousness, perceived-to-be justifiable behaviours, as well as (dysfunctional) ways of relating within cultural paradigms, as (nonaccountability) being ascribed to “social norms”. By framing this groundbreaking IO psychological research project, within multiple wider social contexts, while also centring the implications of “human (business) practices” in the music industry, I sought to cross-culturally examine trailblazing and leading UK and US Black women’s industrial, organisational, and societal career experiences, in this “equality” era. Accordingly, I developed this project from the specific lenses of Black women navigating “power”, “identity politics”, the “politics of identity” and the implications of social constructs, in the, purported-to-be, egalitarian, top- performing music industry ecosystems of the world. In commissioning both intersectionality theory (IT) and, what I will name, an “intrasectional” conceptual framework – a hybrid critical realist ontology and Black feminist epistemology (BFE), where reflexivity would be valued, were ultimately chosen to guide the methodological choices. Also, as narrative research is critical to understanding “lived experiences”, (a criterion in BFE), this thesis leaned towards a Big Q qualitative model, incorporating a multimethod design, featuring two reflexive thematic analyses, using archival data, for Study 1 (n=9 industry trailblazers), to inform the approach for in- depth semi-structured interviews, for Study 2 (n=12 industry leaders). Based on the findings, the themes I generated from Study 1 and Study 2, strongly indicate that Black women’s systemic WEIRD MIE career experiences, are an alarming cause for concern, as the negative workplace issues they tend to encounter fit the criteria of a “humanitarian crisis”, by the UN’s standards, which deserves macro-contexts, urgent attention, and a call- to-action for stakeholder and organisational interventions, as Black women spoke to themes of workplace abuse and incivility, prolonged poor mental and physical health outcomes, other forms of multidimensional exploitation, as well as experiences with disconnection, and barriers at every level in their careers, in the relationship-driven music industry. As these outcomes adversely impacted the pace and progression, as well as trajectories, of their careers across the multisectoral and occupational spectrums in the MIEs, this thesis sought to explore how and why, adding an original contribution to knowledge in psychology through this niche exploration.

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“The Missing Link”

Cited by 24 publications

References 35 publications

Equity, diversity, and inclusion in developmental neuroscience: Practical lessons from community-based participatory research

Equity, diversity, and inclusion in developmental neuroscience: Practical lessons from community-based participatory research

Navigating Open Science as Early Career Feminist Researchers

Forget me not: demarginalising trailblazing and leading Black women’s WEIRD industrial, organisational, and societal career experiences with “power” in the world’s top music industry ecosystems

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