Introducing Diversity & Inclusion Research

Now welcoming submissions! Diversity & Inclusion Research is an Open Access, multidisciplinary journal publishing high-quality research focussed on improving diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility at the individual, organizational, and societal level. The journal aims to contribute towards the deepening of local and international; theoretical and practical understandings of DE&I.​

We welcome research from all disciplines that investigates questions of opportunity, inequality, diversity, access and inclusion as related to gender, ethnicity, class, citizenship, disability and ableism, age, sexual orientation, religion, as well as other forms of inequality and protected characteristics.

As a Gold Open Access journal, we strongly support Open Research practices which we hope will improve the quality of diversity research and boost dissemination of its findings to raise public awareness, better understand, and ultimately, contribute to the adoption of policies and practices which promote inclusion and equality. We are particularly interested in methods papers that identify the key issues faced when designing and conducting studies, and which offer practice recommendations for improving diversity and equity in all stages of the research process.​

New Editors-in-Chief for Diversity & Inclusion Research

We are delighted to announce our new Editors-in-Chief for Diversity & Inclusion Research!

Please join us in welcoming Drs Gabriela C. Zapata and Taylor Le Cui as the Editors-in-Chief for this new multidisciplinary, Open Access journal.

Gabriela C. Zapata is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Originally from Argentina, she received her MA in TESOL and PhD in Spanish (Linguistics track) from Pennsylvania State University and has held research and teaching positions at universities in the United States and Canada.

Gabriela’s research foci are diversity, equity, and inclusion in language education, computer supported collaborative learning, multiliteracies-based pedagogies, multimodal social semiotics, and teacher education. She has been involved in the development and implementation of inclusive, research-guided methodologies and open educational resources, including three textbooks, for the teaching of Spanish as a second and heritage language, and she has trained and mentored pre- and in-service high-school and university instructors. Her latest co-edited book (with Dr. Bill Cope and Dr. Mary Kalantzis), Towards Education Justice: Literacy, Multiliteracies, and the Design of Social Futures (Routledge), is scheduled to appear in December 2023.

Dr. Zapata has been part of several interdisciplinary collaborative projects that have had the objective of serving Hispanic/Latinx communities in South Texas and the Salinas Valley in California. She has also served as an ACTFL mentor and the Vice-Chair, Chair, and Past-Chair of ACTFL’s Spanish for Heritage Learners Special Interest Group. In 2019, she was awarded the SGA Open Education Champion Award by the Student Government Association at Texas A&M University, where she also worked as an ADVANCE Administrative Fellow in the Office for Diversity. Dr. Zapata is also a CIMER Entering Faculty Mentoring Trained Facilitator. She completed the certification program in Diversity and Inclusion at Cornell University in 2021.

Taylor Le Cui is a New Zealand-based sociologist whose research focuses on issues of sexuality, education, work and migration. He is also an Accreditation Specialist with Rainbow Tick in Auckland, a world-leading accreditation service designed to make an organisation an inclusive place for Rainbow employees.

Taylor holds a PhD in Education from the University of Auckland's Faculty of Education and Social Work. His interdisciplinary work has been published in leading international journals in the fields of education, sociology and sexuality studies. He also holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the Communication University of China, and has taught at universities in China, Russia and New Zealand.

As Principal Investigator, Cui is currently leading a research project on Chinese queer international students’ experiences of navigating heteronormativity and racism in New Zealand tertiary education institutions. It is supported by the Rainbow Wellbeing Legacy Fund, New Zealand Rule Foundation, approved by the University of Auckland Human Participants Ethics Committee.

The Editors-in-Chief will begin in July 2023 with initial objectives to put together a diverse team of Associate Editors and an Editorial Board to reflect the broad multidisciplinary scope of the journal. There will also be calls for special issues opening soon, so please watch this space for announcements and opportunities to contribute to this important new publication.