A guide to understanding the world of grant evaluation as a scientist or trainee. Grant evaluation contracts can be a great way to supplement your stipend or fellowship as you earn your PhD or advance through your post doc. In this talk, learn what grant evaluation is, how it differs from scientific exploration, and how it ultimately influences changes to programs, projects, or society.

As more and more funders and community organizations begin calling for the collection of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI+) data collection, the more we see the roadblocks to collecting this data. This talk explores why SOGI+ data collection is so hard, how to determine what SOGI+ data is appropriate to collect in your work, best practices for ensuring the data collection is affirming and also useful and scalable.

Have you ever worked in a vivarium that labeled animal colonies by gender? Are you wondering why I even asked that? This is the talk for you. We will delve into the differences between Sex and Gender and why it is important for all scientists to understand the difference. We will return to the fundamentals and develop a clear understanding of whether your study is actually collecting Sex or Gender data based on the study design.