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“Nothing about us, without us”: The Trans Equity Data Initiative (TEDI) awarded $100k, voicing the needs of trans and non-binary undergraduate students
The Trans Equity Data Initiative (TEDI) has won a which supports bold initiatives that challenge the status quo and drive systemic change in research and academia.
Emerging from the work of the Trans Equity Pod at 尤物视频 (SFU), the trailblazing project, Trans Equity Data Initiative (TEDI), has won a Robbins-Ollivier Award for Excellence in Equity amounting to $100,000.
Members of the Trans Equity Pod: Tess Williams (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences), Dr. Travers (Department of Sociology and Anthropology), and Dr. TJ (Travis) Salway (Faculty of Health Sciences) teamed up to address the critical gap between data stewardship and the challenges and unmet needs trans and non-binary undergraduate students are experiencing at SFU.
Travers explains, 鈥渨e鈥檙e working for trans and non-binary undergraduates to understand their specific needs. [TEDI] will be a way to communicate those needs to SFU on behalf of that vulnerable population.鈥�
The innovation of TEDI works on institutionalizing trans equity directly into SFU鈥檚 mission. There is an additional intention of scalability to develop data infrastructure and ethical policies to share and collaborate with other post-secondary institutions across the country and eventually the globe. Now more than ever ethical data storage, accessibility, and policies are needed as we are seeing more instances of data mining with no formal accountability or peer review.
With the funding from the Robbins-Ollivier award, TEDI will roll-out its initial stages beginning with a needs assessment of trans and non-binary undergraduate students at SFU. TEDI embodies the 鈥渘othing about us, without us鈥� philosophy by establishing a stewardship board made up of trans scholars and community members in order to develop best practices for storing and accessing data from trans participants.
鈥淧roviding an opportunity for these students to communicate their needs collectively becomes much more effective than trying to advocate for yourself as an individual,鈥� Travers notes.
Using the assessment data, TEDI will prepare a report for the university that highlights the specific challenges faced by trans and non-binary students and outlines strategies to address them. This initiative is one of several goals through which TEDI aims to establish itself as a leader in advancing trans equity in research and academia.