FieldFutures launches!
We are thrilled to announce the launch of FieldFutures, an organization dedicated to making science safe for everyone. Please check out our new website and help us spread the word about evidence-based harassment prevention training!
Our Goals
Our goal is to provide field teams, researchers, agencies, classes, and institutions with field-specific, evidence-based training. Drawing on evidence from the scientific literature and decades of fieldwork experience, the FieldFutures team provides experiential interventions designed to empower participants to prevent, intervene in, and respond to identity-based harassment and assault in scientific and research field settings.
What is FieldFutures?
Four years ago, researchers at University of California, Santa Cruz, put their heads together to form the Building a Better Fieldwork Future Program (BBFF) at UC Santa Cruz, which developed an evidence-based training for researchers, scientists, and students to prevent harassment and assault in fieldwork. The program was a huge success, hosting hundreds of trainings on four continents, and training 50+ Certified BBFF trainers to expand the program.
The response from the fieldwork community was clear: people wanted more resources to help them prevent, intervene, and report harassment and assault in field settings. In fact, the demand for the training and further resources for building safe field settings was overwhelming!
As a way to meet this demand, we created FieldFutures, an independent organization that can scale up to reach new field settings, tailor our content, and more effectively build the movement for safe and inclusive field settings.
And don’t worry — BBFF at UC Santa Cruz still exists. The program now leads experimental and observational research evaluating the impact of intervention-based training on harassment prevention in field settings. BBFF will also continue to collaborate with FieldFutures to provide workshop content on the cutting edge of scientific evidence. Please get in touch with BBFF if you are a researcher interested in collaborating!
Together we can build safer, more equitable, and more welcoming field settings.
Meet Our Team
Our founders, Melissa Cronin, CEO, and Erika Zavaleta, Chief Strategist, bring combined decades of experience in diverse field research, teaching, and program development settings, as well as experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM.
Our Board of Advisors includes experts in equity and inclusion programming, program evaluation, field science, and harassment prevention in field sciences. Our team will be growing very soon, please stay tuned for opportunities to join us!
Join the movement for safe and inclusive fieldwork!
Schedule a FieldFutures workshop to bring real solutions to your lab, nonprofit, conference, agency, business, or university. We are now booking for February 2023 and beyond.
