Longer-term actions for supporting inclusion in difficult times

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  1. Leigh, A. & Melwani, S., "Supporting employees after violence against their communities," Harvard Business Review, 5 October 2022
  2. Amy Edmondson, ‘Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams’, Administrative Science Quarterly 44, no. 2 (1 June 1999), p. 350–83,;

    Gardner, D.M. “The consequences of being myself: Understanding authenticity and psychological safety for LGB employees,” The British Psychological Society, 2022, p. 1-10

  3. Leigh, A. & Melwani, S., "Supporting employees after violence against their communities"  
  4. B. Bhattacharyya, S. Erskine, C. McCluney, “Not all allies are created equal: An intersectional examination of relational allyship for women of color at work,” Organizational behavior and human decision processes, Vol. 182, May 2024, p. 18
  5. Diversity Council Australia (V. Mapedzahama, F. Laffernis, A. Barhoum, and J. O’Leary). Culturally and Racially Marginalised Women in Leadership: A framework for (intersectional) organisational action, Diversity Council Australia, 2023
  6. Ibid.
  7. V. Mapedzahama, F. Laffernis, A. Barhoum, and J. O’Leary). Culturally and Racially Marginalised Women in Leadership: A framework for (intersectional) organisational action
  8. See DCA’s Centring Marginalised Voices at Work: Lessons from DCA’s Culturally and Racially Marginalised (CARM) Women in Leadership Research, which outlines the steps of co-diagnose, co-design, co-deliver, and co-evaluate
  9. Rees, S and Moussa, B. "Invisible wounds of the Israel Gaza War in Australia" Medical Journal Australia, 2024, Vol. 220, no. 1 p, 4- 6