The system for granting federal research funding in Canada fails to give Black scientists the support they need to optimize their work, professors and researchers say.
Not providing that stability for researchers may result in a brain drain to other countries, says Lawrence Goodridge, who has worked in the U.S. and Canada.
Goodridge holds the Leung Family Professorship in Food Safety at the University of Guelph and is director of the school’s Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety. He said historical bias has negatively impacted racialized populations and women researchers in the STEMM fields — science, technology, engineering, math and medicine.
He said one common criteria for determining who gets
