Supporting Data for "Towards more equitable and inclusive conservation and ecology conferences" (Tulloch 2020, Nature Ecology and Evolution)

Supporting data for:Tulloch, Ayesha I.T. (2020) Towards more equitable and inclusive conservation and ecology conferences”, Perspective in Nature Ecology and Evolution.
4 worksheets:1. Conference Initiatives: Results of review supporting Table 1 and Table S2 in main text of paper. Indicates which of 30 conference events for 10 international conference and ecology conferences implemented different initiatives.
To evaluate how ecology and conservation conferences support these principles, the actions and policies of 10 international conferences held by nine academic societies for ecology and conservation were reviewed. Data were collated for the past three events that had been held by each conference targeting an international audience: the biannual International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB), International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC), European Ecological Federation (EEF) Conference and the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) World Conference on Ecological Restoration, the annual conferences of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), Ecological Society of Australia (ESAus), British Ecological Society (BES) and Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC), the conference of the International Association for Ecology (INTECOL), held once every 5 years, and the IUCN World Conservation Congress (WCC) held once every 4 years. Data came from conferences between 2009 and 2020. Data were sourced from conference websites, conference programs and marketing material. Initiatives of interest were those targeted on improving equity and diversity in sex, gender identity and sexual orientation, and associated diversity types and lifestyle choices ̶ marital status, family or carer responsibilities, pregnancy and breastfeeding and physical appearance are categorised according to three broad groups:
(a) Minimising discrimination, harassment and implicit bias
(b) Minimising barriers to attendance
(c) Maximising opportunities for participation & education.
2. Conference Affordability: Data on conference registration fees and discounts for students and developing countries.
3. Conference Attendance: Data on conference attendee diversity provided by individual conferences and societies on websites and marketing material.
4. Conference_equity_forR_200505: Input data (csv file) for GLMM code in R, provided in S3. Code for Statistical Models.