University survey shows how COVID-19 pandemic is hampering career progress for women and racialized faculty

By Jennifer Davis, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management, University of British Columbia

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, university faculty across Canada have been looking for ways to keep doing high-quality research and adapt to online teaching. The uncertainty of what a new normal will resemble, and the restrictions it imposes, underscore the importance of data to inform university responses.

For many university faculty, new pandemic guidelines resulted in immediate loss of access to research facilities, research participants,…

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