Welcome! After six years with institutional limbo and funding wind down, in September 2024 CGSHE leadership made the difficult decision to close its doors as an academic centre and transition to an online repository of open-access research education resources, or a Collaborative of Gender and Sexual Health Equity Research Education Resources (“CGSHE”). Here, you will find freely available resources to advance more equitable and inclusive research, policy, and practice -from research equity toolkits and decolonizing research learnings to research education and knowledge translation sessions with leading local and international gender and sexual health equity research and methods experts, created from 2018-2024. As a commitment to facilitating open access and ensuring resources remain available and accessible, all can be used and shared freely within your networks, with appropriate credit to authors, speakers, & CGSHE.
CGSHE organized and hosted a series of research / KT events (monthly Speaker Series, bi-annual Trainee Research Symposiums, community roundtables) to increase visibility and reach of gender and sexual health equity research (ers) and facilitate dialogue and learnings.
CGSHE provided resources to support academic and community partners to mobilize evidence from creating and supporting social media campaigns and international book launches to designing infographics, policy briefs and reports; organizing press conferences; and facilitating academic open letters.
CGSHE created a series of research equity resources to facilitate ongoing learning and unlearning; and partnered, co-funded, and/or resourced a number of promising practice and JEDI practices projects led by faculty, clinical researchers, community practitioners, and learners to help address gaps within academia, policy, and practice spaces.
In research, a lot happens before and after we design and conduct a study â we need to apply for funding, get ethical approval before we start, and publish our results after weâve finished! Tool #8 focuses on navigating such pre/post research activities. It explores ways to think about the practice of identity disclosure, when and how to engage sex and gender subject matter experts, and the politics and ethics of publishing raw datasets. And much more!
May 17 marks the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT). In honour of the 2024 IDAHOBIT theme, âNo one left behind: equality, freedom and justice for allâ, we are spotlighting the MindMapBC project. Learn more about the collaborative work put into the project by REAFFIRM and QMUNITY and the teams’ hopes for its future.