The BIAS FREE Framework
The BIAS FREE “Building an Integrative Analytic System for Recognizing and Eliminating in Equities” framework was developed by Mary Anne Burke and Margit Eichler to identify and avoid biases that derive from social hierarchies.
Social inequity and the biases surrounding them can be divided into three distinct sets of problems, namely maintaining an existing hierarchy, failing to examine differences, and using double standards. In this interactive workshop, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the BIAS FREE Framework tool and learn how to apply it to their work and lived reality to reveal hidden biases.
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Knowledge Levels
Beginner, no background required
Duration
1 hour, 30 minutes
Audience
Open to campus community: students, senior/executive leaders, faculty, and staff
Core understanding of EDI
Before the workshop
- Please review the 20 questions of the BIAS FREE FRAMEWORK and try to come up with examples relevant to your work or life.
During the Workshop
- Answer an anonymous Zoom poll for each of the 20 diagnostic questions, asking whether participants could come up with an example for each EDI deserving group.
- Using a community-learning format, participants will work together to find an example for each diagnostic question for each EDI deserving groups.
New learnings
To become knowledgeable on the utility of the BIAS FREE Framework
- as an educational tool
- as an audit tool for any document, audio, work task or policy (etc.)
- to unmask biases that support social hierarchies
Facilitator
Dr. Gregor Wolbring (he/him)
Dr. Gregor Wolbring is a tenured full Professor at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine, Program in Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies. He is presently also a member of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe, Germany and a senior fellow of the Institute for Science, Policy and Society, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Dr. Wolbring defines himself as an ability studies, disability studies, sustainability studies and science and technology governance studies scholar and wheelchair user since his youth.
It’s our collective responsibility to create a more equitable and inclusive UCaglary and we all have an important role to play by learning and unlearning.
Dr. Malinda S. Smith, PhD
Vice Provost (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) and Associate Vice-President Research (EDI)