LEMDO Ethos: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Rationale

Fair Treatment of Research Assistants

Research assistants have a right to be treated equitably and fairly.
The Project Director offers equitable rates of pay, matching or exceeding the CUPE 4163 negotiated rates.
LEMDO assigns roles based on people’s skills, expertise, and desire to obtain new skills. No person is given a task or role because of gender, race, sexual orientation, or status in the university hierarchy.

Health and Well being

LEMDO is attentive to the health and well being of team members. To that end:
LEMDO encourages team members to take care of their health and family first, their studies second, and their job third.
LEMDO recognizes that mental health issues are an invisible challenge and that it can be difficult to ask for help. Team members may speak to the Project Director in confidence and do not have to give details of their situation unless they wish to.
Team members have the right to have their health needs be respected.
LEMDO works with the team to reset priorities and reassign tasks when a person needs to take time off work.

Accessibility

LEMDO strives to be an accessible workplace. Unfortunately, we do not have designated funding for accommodations, but we do support accommodations for team members when they can be funded by or obtained from the University of Victoria. To create a more accessible environment:
The Project Director works with student team members and the Centre for Accessible Learning (CAL) to determine what accommodations are necessary.
The Project Director turns first to CAL to acquire the necessary support and technologies.
When CAL cannot provide what is needed, the Project Director will work with the student team member, the Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC), the Faculty of Humanities (HUMS), and the University of Victoria Libraries to address the accommodation requirements.
Where necessary and feasible and when funding opportunities exist, the Project Director will submit applications to relevant funding bodies or to university offices for funding to purchase the adaptive tools, technologies, and infrastructure needed to accommodate a team member.

Prosopography

Janelle Jenstad

Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.

Navarra Houldin

Training and Documentation Lead 2025–present. LEMDO project manager 2022–2025. Textual remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA with a major in history and minor in Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America. They are continuing their education through an MA program in Gender and Social Justice Studies at the University of Alberta where they will specialize in Digital Humanities.

Orgography

LEMDO Team (LEMD1)

The LEMDO Team is based at the University of Victoria and normally comprises the project director, the lead developer, project manager, junior developers(s), remediators, encoders, and remediating editors.

Metadata

Authority title LEMDO Ethos: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
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Publisher University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform
Series Linked Early Modern Drama Online
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Written by Janelle Jenstad
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LEMDO Team

The LEMDO Team is based at the University of Victoria and normally comprises the project director, the lead developer, project manager, junior developers(s), remediators, encoders, and remediating editors.
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