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
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.
Research Voices from the Field with Faisal Khosa
In this edition, Faisal Khosa, Professor of Radiology and Chair of the Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Advisory Committee for Doctors of BC, reflects on his edited book “Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Sisyphean Undertaking to an Achievable Reality” and shares his hope for a kinder, more inclusive future that we can build together, one gentle step at a time.
REDI Digest Guide: Building a More Welcoming Movement Toward a Just Culture
In this edition, the guide summarizes key insights from the 2025 REDI Symposium, “Building a More Welcoming Movement Toward a Just Culture” (June 2025). It explores evidence-informed approaches to fostering lasting change through relationship-building, dialogue, and shared humanity rather than shame and polarization.
REDI Digest Guide: Moving from Harm to Healing (Part II)
In this edition, the guide draws on the It Starts With Us webinar “Moving from Harm to Healing, Part II” (March 2026). It explores how restorative approaches can reshape responses to harm by emphasizing dignity, belonging, accountability, and repair rather than blame and punishment.
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.
National Indigenous History Month and Indigenous Peoples Day Events in Lower Mainland (June 2026)
Celebrate Indigenous History Month and Indigenous Peoples Day in the Lower Mainland area.
Unpacking Polarities, Diversity Meets Reality: Grappling with the Hard Edges of Inclusive Clinical Teaching
This REDI Deep Dive Facilitation Guide is an adaptable lesson plan for health sciences and professions educators leading EDI learning sessions with colleagues. Through reflection, dialogue, and case-based discussion, participants examine tensions in inclusive medical education, and identify practical strategies and systems changes that support diverse learners and more inclusive learning environments.
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.
Research Voices from the Field with Danièle Behn Smith, Jessica Chenery, Naomi Dove & Kate Jongbloed
In this edition, Danièle Behn Smith, Jessica Chenery, Naomi Dove & Kate Jongbloed reflect on their article book “Using a metaphor of baskets and copper pots to identify “what work, whose work” in truth, rights, responsibilities, and reconciliation in public health” and its relevance to any settler seeking to take up their role and responsibility in reconciliation.