SKA Organisation Code of Conduct for Meetings
SKA Organisation Code of Conduct for Meetings
Philip Diamond, SKA Director-General
SKA Organisation is committed to making its science, training and public outreach activities productive and enjoyable for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality or religion. We will not tolerate harassment of individuals associated with our activities in any form.
This code applies to all scientists, students and staff who are members or associates of SKA Organisation in all their professional conduct. It also applies to participants and instructors in SKA Organisation training programmes, workshops, conferences and all other events or activities sponsored or organised by SKA Organisation.
Please follow these guidelines:
- Behave professionally. Harassment and sexist, racist or exclusionary comments or jokes are not appropriate. Harassment includes sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, sexual attention or innuendo, deliberate intimidation, stalking, and photography or recording of an individual without consent. It also includes offensive comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race or religion.
- All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual or sexist language and imagery is not appropriate.
- Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees.
Individuals asked to stop any inappropriate behaviour are expected to comply immediately. Anyone violating these rules may be asked to leave the event at the discretion of the SKA Organisation event organiser(s), or the relevant event organisers (without a refund of any registration or admission fee). Any participant who wishes to report a violation of this policy is asked to speak confidentially to the programme/activity organiser or to the SKA Organisation Human Resources Manager (a.taylor@skatelescope.org).
This code of conduct is based on the “London Code of Conduct”, as originally designed for the conference “Accurate Astrophysics. Correct Cosmology”, held in London in July 2015. The London Code was adapted with permission by Andrew Pontzen and Hiranya Peiris from a document by Software Carpentry, which itself derives from original Creative Commons documents by PyCon and Geek Feminism. It is released under a CC-Zero license for reuse. To help track people’s improvements and best practice, please retain this acknowledgement, and log your re-use or modification of this policy at https://github.com/apontzen/london_cc.
