WIDE Working Group
We care about and work on Well-Being, Inclusion, Diversity and Equity at the D-GESS Department. Our aim is to make sure that everybody at the department feels safe, integrated and free to focus on research. We also want to make our department more equitable and more diverse.
W - ell-being
I - nclusion
D - iversity
E - quity (external pageWhat is Equity?)
Some people live their entire lives in confidence. They never experience exclusion, disrespect, harassment or violence, based on their identity. They do not have to explain their looks, their way of speaking, their religion, partners, families or any other aspect of their lives. They feel respected and respect others.
At D-GESS, we claim this way of living and working for everybody at the Department.
We want to be a diverse and inclusive scientific community. We encourage responsible leadership and listen openly to different viewpoints, opinions, thoughts, and ideas. We strive to embrace a culture of respect and inclusion, where we value one another. By this, we aim at making D-GESS a space where people feel emotionally, physically and intellectually safe and where difficulties can be openly addressed and acknowledged.
The Department will not tolerate any form of discrimination or bullying. In case you experience any incorrect behavior, or if you are not sure whether something constitutes incorrect behavior, please contact the D-GESS Help!Point.
This semester's focus topic is Working Conditions──
The WIDE working group was founded in spring 2021 by admin and scientific staff of D-GESS, and is constantly growing. We are addressing the following topics, among others:
• General Strategy
• Teaching
• Expectations of professorial commitment
• Events
• Surveys
Everyone is welcome to contribute to existing topics and/or suggest new items. We regularly share information about our current projects in working group meetings.
Would you like to join? Reach out:
- Download D-GESS Gender Action Plan (PDF, 154 KB)
- Download Gender and Diversity Report May 2022 (DOCX, 29 KB)
- Download GAP Roundtable: Main Observations & Proposed Actions Nov 2022 (PDF, 148 KB)
- Download GAP Roundtable: Summary Table Talks Nov 2022 (PDF, 44 KB)
- Gender Action Plan – Services & Ressourcen | ETH Zurich
- Download ABC of Inclusion in Teaching (Lecturers’ Conference – KdL – ETH) (PDF, 107 KB)
- external page Documentation on anonymized submission via Moodle (only GE)
- Refresh Teaching “Oral exams – making them valid and fair”
- Refresh Teaching “Continuous assessment"
- Refresh Teaching “Graded and ungraded semester performances”
- Refresh Teaching “Prior knowledge”
- "Working with student prior knowledge” (Teaching Lab – ETH)
- Continuing education in university teaching (ETH)
- Didactica (ETH/UZH)
- external page Database of teaching tools (UZH)
- Download Structure Matters: Twenty-One Teaching Strategies to Promote Student Engagement and Cultivate Classroom Equity (Tanner 2013)
Information on Performance Assessments at D-GESS
The >Information on Performance Assessments at D-GESS< is a comprehensive resource that reflects the collaborative efforts of the WIDE Group, GESS Who!, the LET and our department over an extended period of time. This document provides a thorough overview of all major policies, rules and regulations related to performance assessments within the department. It is a testament to the collaborative spirit of our academic community, having been unanimously approved by the Department Conference in December 2023.
- external page Mental Health First Aid Courses (ensa)
- external page Network “Crisis & Suicide”
- Psychological counselling for employees
- external page Psychological counseling and coaching for students and employees
- Mental health services
- MeWell Community Zurich - Improve mental wellbeing in academia
- Tips for dealing with internal stressors
- external page Researcher Mental Health Observatory (ReMO)
- Download Researcher Mental Health and Well-being Manifesto (ReMO 2021) (PDF, 165 KB)
- Results of the WiegETHs? survey (only GE)
- Download Mental Health of Graduate Students sorely overlooked (Forrester 2017) (PDF, 132 KB)
- Download Work organization and mental health problems in PhD students (Levecque 2017) (PDF, 863 KB)
- external page What are your main drivers?
- external page 52 Ways to Stay Well: During your PhD, post-doc or research career
- Talk about it (ETH Mental Health Campaign)
ASST & WIDE Mental Health Survey
Mental Health Day Nov 2023
Download Overview: Resources related to Mental Health at ETH (PDF, 442 KB)- external page Leadership in Mountain and Wildland Professions in Canada: Examining the impacts of gender, safety, and climate change.
- Gender Issues in Education and STEM
- external page Advancing Disaster Geographies: From marginalisation to inclusion of gender and sexual minorities.
- Indigenous lore and the fire knowledge we ignore.
- external page The Unequal Social Consequences of Wildfire Smoke in California
- external page In-group bias in the Indian judiciary: Evidence from 5 million criminal cases.
- Gender Attitudes in the Judiciary: Evidence from U.S. Circuit Courts
- Race-Related Research in Economics and other Social Sciences
- external page Fiscal pressures and discriminatory policing: Evidence from traffic stops in Missouri
- Visual representation and stereotypes in news media
- external page Are actual and perceived environmental conditions associated with variation in mental health?
Mental Health Awareness in Academics
What is your experience of the departmental culture?
"Culture" is a vague term, and we want to know what it means to you. Please share with us your negative and positive experiences of the GESS departmental culture. Any other WIDE-related feedback or suggestions are also welcome.
Write us anonymously external pagehere or simply send us an email:
ETH Zurich operates a number of services, helplines, and offices that serve as contact points in case of threats and violence, sexual harassment, bullying, or other misconduct.
- Equal opportunities at ETH Zurich
- Respect at ETH Zurich
- Diversity and Sustainability | ETH Zurich
- Refresh Teaching
- Diversity and Inclusion – Refresh Teaching
- Advise and Coaching for students | ETH Zurich
- Funding, Awards and Scholarships – Services & resources | ETH Zurich
- Welcome Center | ETH Zürich
- external page CodEg (Gleichstellungskommission of the VSS)
- AVETH Diversity-Gruppe
- external page Women Professors Forum
- Disability related advise
- News article: “The ETH community must become more female"
- Information on name change and gender neutral toilets for trans* and non-binary persons
- external page L-Punkt: Association for lesbian, bisexual and queer women* at universities of Zurich
- external page queer*z: Association for queer politics at universities of Zurich
- external page z&h: Association for gay, bisexual and queer men* at universities of Zurich
- external page Speak up ETH (@speakupeth) • Instagram-Pictures and Videos
- Speak Up Campaign in the News
- E-Learning course on dealing with sexual harassment in everyday studies and work
- Fund of the rector to foster teaching at ETH
- Overview: The Female Associations at ETH Zurich
- Parity & Diversity Group of the Association of Assistants at D-ARCH
- Parity Talks at D-ARCH
- Network of Women in Computer Science (CSNOW) at D-INFK
- Ladies in Mechanical and Electrical Studies (LIMES) at D-MAVT und D-ITET
- The Society for Women in Natural Sciences (WINS) at D-CHAB
- Network for women in IT (IT-Women@ETH) at IT Services
- external page BauingenieurinnenFORUM at D-BAUG
- external page Network of female water engineers (NeWI) at D-BAUG
- EqualiTea team of the Association of scientific staff at D-ERDW
- external page TWIST - Towards more Women In Science & Technology
- Equality and Diversity D-BSSE
- Diversity and Inclusion at D-ITET
- external page Diversum
- external page Remote Student Exchange
- external page National Center for Biotechnology Information (nih.gov)
- external page Women also know stuff
- external page Women also know on Twitter
- external page POC also know on Twitter
- external page Open letter on avaaz.org
- Women in science – Female pioneers at ETH Zurich
- external page Gender Studies, Equality and Diversity at Swiss Universities: Gender Campus
- external page Fix the Leaky Pipeline!
- external page WE/MEN (only GE)
- external page HeForShe
- external page Test: Implicit Bias
The Student Critical Thinking Initiative:
The broad idea of the project is to build a student movement united behind the desire to bring different perspectives to ETH curriculum, and to reform the university such that it more adequately prepares its graduates for the global challenges they will need to face. We want to unite students from many different faculties and discuss together on how ETH could start a wide discussion about critical thinking in research and education and incorporate a more diverse set of perspectives and worldviews. This could include alternatives to neo-classical economics, the ethics of animal testing, critically looking at the societal impacts of artificial intelligence, climate justice… If you are interested in taking part in the project, or to get updates on what we are doing, please join our Telegram group chat: external pagehttps://t.me/joinchat/L2j53u97c8cwZGI8
