REDI Best Practices
“REDI Best Practices” is your roadmap to creating a transformed culture that celebrates differences, and fosters belonging. Those groundbreaking tip sheets unveil the strategies and principles for implementing inclusive policies and practices across domains including hiring, research, team culture and more.
Co-Creation for Equity in Health Research
How can we make our research more equitable? This REDI Best Practice tip sheet introduces co-creation as a collaborative approach to research that centres the voices and priorities of marginalized and underserved communities and leads to more impactful and inclusive research.
Community Agreements for Guiding Conversations Among Diverse Participants
Whether you’re leading a discussion or participating, this tip sheet offers practical guidance for fostering respectful and inclusive discussions, especially when conversations touch on complex or sensitive topics. Adapted from radical inclusivity practices, these agreements help participants navigate power dynamics, listen mindfully, and engage with openness and empathy.
REDI Best Practices: Receiving Feedback Well
Feedback is essential for growth, yet receiving it gracefully—especially when it involves EDI—can be challenging. This tip sheet provides actionable strategies to overcome common barriers—such as defensiveness, emotional reactions, and binary thinking. It supports you in transforming difficult conversations into meaningful opportunities for personal reflection and professional growth.
REDI Best Practices: Writing Inclusive Case Studies
Case studies shape how future clinicians understand patient care, but do they reflect the diversity of the people they will serve? This guide offers strategies for writing inclusive cases that challenge stereotypes, highlight systemic factors affecting health, and ensure all patients are seen as complex individuals. By integrating these principles, educators can foster more equitable and effective clinical learning.
REDI Best Practices: Mitigating Cognitive Biases in Awards Adjudication
This tip sheet offers practical strategies to help committees mitigate conscious and unconscious cognitive biases, ensuring a fairer and more equitable awards decisions.
REDI Best Practices: Adjudicating Awards through an EDI lens
This tip sheet guides you in structuring and refining the awards process through an EDI lens. From encouraging diverse applications and nominations to creating transparent, bias-aware adjudication stages, it provides best practices to ensure fairness at every step.
Introduction to the REDI Office: Resources for Learners
Discover a wealth of resources from the REDI Office designed to support your learning journey. Join upcoming events, access over 40 hours of recorded events, and find guidance for navigating mistreatment in the learning environment.
Introduction to the REDI Office: Resources for Faculty and Staff
Are you new to UBC or the Faculty of Medicine? Learn about the REDI Office’s range of resources to support your role, from professional development and EDI best practices to strategies for fostering an inclusive and respectful workplace.
Support Units for Navigating Disclosures of a Serious Concern in the Learning Environment
When a learner discloses a serious concern affecting their learning environment, knowing how to respond or where to seek help can be challenging. This guide summarizes the various FoM and UBC units that support faculty, staff, and administrators in navigating disclosures and prioritizing student well-being.
REDI Best Practices: How to Avoid the “Minority Tax” On New Colleagues from HSPM Groups
This guide offers strategies to create an inclusive and supportive environment for newly hired colleagues from historically, systemically, and persistently marginalized (HSPM) groups. Avoiding the “minority tax”—where marginalized individuals are burdened with extra emotional labour—requires proactive onboarding, effective mentoring, and ongoing team training. These best practices are vital for creating a welcoming environment where they can thrive.