Dear Geodynamics community,
We have an important announcement in relation to our investigation into the diversity of the geodynamics community.
Taking the participants of the Ada Lovelace workshop as representative of the demographics of the geodynamics community, we want to look at how different diversity aspects within the community have changed from 1987 (when the first Ada Lovelace workshop was held, albeit under a different name) to 2024 (the most recent workshop in Sète, France).
As such, we are collecting publicly-available data on all past participants of the Ada Lovelace workshops over the years. Apart from name and affiliation, we also collect (binary) gender and the year someone obtained their PhD (if they currently have a PhD), as well as conference-specific information on their type of contribution (keynote, talk, poster) and involvement in organisation of the conference (LOC, SOC, chair). This allows us to map different diversity aspects over time, including gender balance, the variety in career stages, and the countries of affiliation that the conference attracts.
Because of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) we are required to notify the people it concerns about this data collection.
So, please make sure to read the attached Participant Information Sheet and Information Obligation which contain all the official information on this project, hopefully address all your potential concerns, and outline how you can opt out of having your data collected by us.
Information_Obligation_Collecting_Personal_Data.pdf (90.0 KB)
Participant_Information_Sheet_diversity_geodynamics.pdf (50.4 KB)
Of course all our results and communications on the gathered data will be anonymous and none of the identifiable data will ever be publicly shared. Throughout (and after) the project, the data will be securely stored and encrypted, only accessible to the six PIs of the project.
In case you are at EGU GA 2025, you can also find more information at our poster X1.178 at 14:00 on Thursday the 1st of May.
Kind regards,
Iris van Zelst (University of Edinburgh)
Anne Glerum (GFZ)
Juliane Dannberg (GEOMAR)
Adina Pusok (University of Oxford)
Fabio Crameri (ISSI)
Cedric Thieulot (Utrecht University)