Access to Excellence at CPERL
CPERL strives to intentionally create conditions through our policies and practices that promote access to pursuing research excellence.
Check out our Lab's Action Plan
Check out our Reflections on Advancing our Lab's Action Plan
Why build a research lab that actively pursues access to research as a form of scholarly excellence?
Rehabilitation practitioners and scientists know that environments matter in shaping the lives of children with, or at risk for, disability. Similarly, institutional environments shape how we build evidence-based practices. Academic research labs that train talented and committed students for careers as research-engaged clinicians and career scientists are instrumental in promoting environments that ensure access to scholarly excellence.
Our research team has consistently invested resources to build awareness about our shared privilege(s) and express responsibility in using privilege(s) to shape a research environment that cultivates standards by which we conduct our science and ourselves as scientists or scientifically engaged clinicians. We designed an action plan for undertaking strategic improvements in our lab’s research portfolio and code of conduct. We expect experimental failure, are prepared to fail forward, and believe we will continue breaking silence through action that forms habits of excellence. We vetted this plan with eight lab alumnae and published on it to hold ourselves accountable to knowing better and doing better.
We challenge other labs to follow suit.