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.

REDI Best Practices: Inclusive Job Postings

REDI Best Practices: Inclusive Job Postings

Inclusive hiring starts with an inclusive job description. This tip sheet provides practical strategies for writing job descriptions that welcome candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds.

Introduction to the REDI Office: Resources for Faculty and Staff

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.

Introduction to the REDI Office: Resources for Learners 

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, and access over 40 hours of recorded events.

4 Steps to Help Deepen Awareness of Bias

4 Steps to Help Deepen Awareness of Bias

This guide outlines four practical, reflective steps to help deepen awareness of bias in everyday interactions and decision-making. Adapted from Deep Diversity by Shakil Choudhury, these steps are intended as an ongoing practice to support more equitable, reflective, and inclusive approaches in education, research, and clinical environments.

Tips for graduate student selection

Tips for graduate student selection

This tip sheet highlights common equity and inclusion hazards in recruitment and selection of graduate students and offers practical, evidence-informed strategies to avoid them. By using inclusive language, broadening how excellence is defined, reducing bias, and creating transparent, accessible, and humane processes, programs can attract a more diverse applicant pool and make fairer, more rigorous decisions that benefit students, programs, and the Faculty as a whole.

The ABCs of Compassionate Support

The ABCs of Compassionate Support

Explore trauma-informed strategies for supporting a learner or colleague, without overstepping boundaries or assuming their full story.

Co-Creation for Equity in Health Research

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

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

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

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.