The ACT project places a particular emphasis on adopting a co-design practice in its resource development, and especially visual aids, since non-verbal communication is a bridge between varied professional and cultural contexts. Apart from incorporating visual methods and templates within the above participatory methods, ACT also provides guidelines to creating visual materials. This includes infographics, storyboards, and photo documentation.

Sex and gender analysis improves science and engineering

• Cara Tannenbaum, 
• Robert P. Ellis, 
• Friederike Eyssel, 
• James Zou & 
• Londa Schiebinger 

Nature volume 575, pages137–146(2019)

We cover basic methods—and focus on biomedicine, marine science, AI, and social robots. Abstract: The goal of sex and gender analysis is to promote rigorous, reproducible and responsible science. Incorporating sex and gender analysis into experimental design has enabled advancements across many disciplines, such as improved treatment of heart disease and insights into the societal impact of algorithmic bias. Here we discuss the potential for sex and gender analysis to foster scientific discovery, improve experimental efficiency and enable social equality. We provide a roadmap for sex and gender analysis across scientific disciplines and call on researchers, funding agencies, peer-reviewed journals and universities to coordinate efforts to implement robust methods of sex and gender analysis.

One of the ways to build a strong community is to add high value to others’ lives at a low personal cost. Doing one five-minute favour every day for someone can instil in us a habit that benefits you more than just the beneficiary. It can challenge people’s assumption that they have to choose between helping others and their own success. This quick activity will allow people to find ways of giving to others that don’t demand enormous acts of sacrifice. Bringing community members together to help each other has the potential to enrich their abilities to achieve their goals while building a stronger sense of team spirit and community. These favours can broaden and deepen your community’s relationships, and inject greater meaning and satisfaction into the project.

Thought mapping is widely used for brainstorming, note taking, document drafting, project planning and other tasks that require hierarchical structuring of information. Thought (or mind/concept) maps have a central node (the root) which represents the main topic the map is concerned about. From this root node, child-nodes branch out to describe sub-topics. However, two mapping methods are used here to help your community impart critical and analytical thinking, to see relationships between concepts, to structure thoughts, to give a clear and comprehensive overview of arguments, and to help make better decisions: For/Against (Simple) and Argument (Complex) Mapping. The common feature of these thought mapping methods is the use of diagrammatic visualisations in preference to written or verbal descriptions.