Safe fieldwork strategies for at-risk individuals, their supervisors and institutions | Nature Ecology & Evolution

Safe fieldwork strategies for at-risk individuals, their supervisors and institutions | Nature Ecology & Evolution

Safe fieldwork for everyone

Laboratories, departments and institutions should work to alleviate the burden faced by researchers at risk of harassment or misconduct in the field, write ecologists Amelia-Juliette Demery and Monique Pipkin. They outline flexible, safe fieldwork strategies that can be tailored to individuals, supervisors and institutions — all accompanied by enlightening illustrations by ecologist Callie Chappell.

Nature Ecology & Evolution | 4 min read
Read more: Racism and harassment are common in field research — scientists are speaking up (Nature | 6 min read, from August)