TY - JOUR
T1 - How can evolutionary and biological anthropologists engage broader audiences?
AU - Jones, James Holland
AU - Pisor, Anne C.
AU - Douglass, Kristina G.
AU - Bird, Rebecca Bliege
AU - Ready, Elspeth
AU - Hazel, Ashley
AU - Hackman, Joseph
AU - Kramer, Karen L.
AU - Kohler, Timothy A.
AU - Pontzer, Herman
AU - Towner, Mary C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC.
PY - 2021/7/1
Y1 - 2021/7/1
N2 - Objectives: With our diverse training, theoretical and empirical toolkits, and rich data, evolutionary and biological anthropologists (EBAs) have much to contribute to research and policy decisions about climate change and other pressing social issues. However, we remain largely absent from these critical, ongoing efforts. Here, we draw on the literature and our own experiences to make recommendations for how EBAs can engage broader audiences, including the communities with whom we collaborate, a more diverse population of students, researchers in other disciplines and the development sector, policymakers, and the general public. These recommendations include: (1) playing to our strength in longitudinal, place-based research, (2) collaborating more broadly, (3) engaging in greater public communication of science, (4) aligning our work with open-science practices to the extent possible, and (5) increasing diversity of our field and teams through intentional action, outreach, training, and mentorship. Conclusions: We EBAs need to put ourselves out there: research and engagement are complementary, not opposed to each other. With the resources and workable examples we provide here, we hope to spur more EBAs to action.
AB - Objectives: With our diverse training, theoretical and empirical toolkits, and rich data, evolutionary and biological anthropologists (EBAs) have much to contribute to research and policy decisions about climate change and other pressing social issues. However, we remain largely absent from these critical, ongoing efforts. Here, we draw on the literature and our own experiences to make recommendations for how EBAs can engage broader audiences, including the communities with whom we collaborate, a more diverse population of students, researchers in other disciplines and the development sector, policymakers, and the general public. These recommendations include: (1) playing to our strength in longitudinal, place-based research, (2) collaborating more broadly, (3) engaging in greater public communication of science, (4) aligning our work with open-science practices to the extent possible, and (5) increasing diversity of our field and teams through intentional action, outreach, training, and mentorship. Conclusions: We EBAs need to put ourselves out there: research and engagement are complementary, not opposed to each other. With the resources and workable examples we provide here, we hope to spur more EBAs to action.
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U2 - 10.1002/ajhb.23592
DO - 10.1002/ajhb.23592
M3 - Article
C2 - 33751710
AN - SCOPUS:85093671305
SN - 1042-0533
VL - 33
JO - American Journal of Human Biology
JF - American Journal of Human Biology
IS - 4
M1 - e23592
ER -