The conference will facilitate conversations and develop recommendations centered around the core principles of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility. We invite abstract submissions that help to address these issues such as:
Inclusion - work that discusses evidence-based practices to create and sustain inclusive work environments Diversity - abstracts that review the current state of the profession at all career levels and those that make recommendations on the best practices to assess the field’s demographics Equity - work that identifies opportunity gaps faced by members of the community and mechanisms to bridge those gaps, to create, and sustain an equitable system Accessibility - abstracts discussing best practices for making activities in the workforce accessible to all in the community
Additionally, we encourage abstracts at the intersection of IDEA core principles, such as those presenting proposed IDEA activities for missions and those reviewing lessons learned and best practices from planetary science and astrobiology adjacent fields. In particular, we encourage abstracts and attendance from members of the social sciences with whom we hope to work to leverage the insights from the social and psychological sciences to improve the state of the planetary science and astrobiology community.