Sarah Sauve
Sarah Sauve is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Lincoln and FORRT Director of Social Justice and DEIA. She led the development of the Citational Justice Toolkit and its associated pre-print. Her research and teaching is focused on doing science in a more just, equitable, transparent and inclusive way. She currently leads a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant on Improving diversity in social science curricula, implemented in the UK and Mexico.
University of Lincoln
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Decades of empirical research across disciplines reveal the pervasiveness of citation biases along axes of gender, race, geography, and epistemology. Who we cite reflects and reinforces both the boundaries and hierarchies of academic knowledge, shaping not only whose research is legitimized and valued but also whose careers are advanced. Citations, the currency of the academy with power to reinforce or dismantle hierarchies that privilege dominant knowledge systems cannot thus be a neutral, apolitical act. This workshop unpacks the concept of citation politics and its role in sustaining epistemic hierarchies within scholarly communities. We introduce a comprehensive and openly accessible Citational Justice Toolkit, developed by the FORRT community, which curates actionable resources, tools, and practices helping scholars and institutions to audit, diversify, and reflect on their citation practices across the research cycle. Our aim is to support a shift from tokenistic inclusion toward epistemically accountable, socially responsible, and structurally aware scholarship.