Gender School 2022
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Dates
7th Sept - 11th Sept 2022
10:00 – 14:00
Application Dates
1 June- 22 July 2022
Evaluation Dates
22 - 30 July 2022
Notification of Acceptance
1 August 2022
The Gender-EX School aims to provide participants with the necessary knowledge and tools to explore the ways in which gender is relevant to their own research projects. Special attention to intersectional approaches to SGDRC.
By the end of this 5-day course, participants will be sufficiently equipped to incorporate sophisticated gender analysis into their own research projects, independently of their discipline.
The course is designed to facilitate participation through a variety of interactive sessions. It will comprise a mix format of keynotes, seminars, workshops and case-studies. The continuity of these networks will be facilitated by further opportunities provided by future GenderEX activities, exchanges, and events.
*Gender School will be held in English. No admission fees required. Certificate of attendance will be given.
Selection Criteria
The primary target group are Early-Stage Researchers, including MA, MSc, and PhD students, from Kadir Has Universitesi, Technological University Dublin, Università di Genova, and Lunds Universitet.
Applicants must:
Be a researcher in the first four years (full-time equivalent) of their research activity, including the period of research training
Have a research plan (even if in its initial stages)
Have a basic understanding of the relevance of integrating a sex and gender dimension in their area of research
Be able to articulate their capacity-building needs for integrating a sex and gender dimension in their research
A proven commitment to the integration of a sex and gender dimension in their field of research is preferable
Learning Objectives
To understand what it means to integrate a gender perspective and how to go about it.
To familiarize with the EU policy framework in relation to the integration of gender perspectives in research.
To recognize the implications of undertaking gender-sensitive research both for science and for society at large.
To forge the creation of a sustainable multidisciplinary network of Early Career Researchers who are conducting gender sensitive research.
Keynote speaker
Tomas Brage is Professor of Physics in Lund University.
His main research interests are Laboratory Astrophysics and Computational
Atomic Physics, and he has published over 100 articles in refereed journals.
For the last 15 years he has been strongly involved in work on Gender and
Science, where he is regularly giving talks on “Gender and Physics” around
Europe. He has designed and executed workshops on gender equality,
anti-discrimination, scientific literacy, inclusive teaching, core values, bias
as a threat to meritocracy and the gender dimension in the culture and content
of Physics and Science.
Case-studies
Inés Novella is an architect and equal opportunities
advisor. She is a researcher at the Department of Urban and Spatial Planning of
the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). Her research focuses on gender-sensitive
architectural and planning design and structural change in STEM institutions.
She is the Project Manager of the TRIGGER project. Before joining the Technical
University of Madrid, she worked for different architecture and planning
offices, and set her own office, NOVELLA | QUIXAL architects, in 2012.
Jennie Stephens is the Director of the School of Public Policy
and Urban Affairs and the Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science &
Policy at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also the Director for Strategic
Research Collaborations at Northeastern University’s Global Resilience
Institute. Her research, teaching, and community engagement focus on
integrating social justice, feminist, and anti-racist perspectives into climate
and energy resilience, social and political aspects of the renewable energy
transition, reducing reliance on fossil fuels, energy democracy, gender in
energy and climate, and climate and energy justice. Her unique
transdisciplinary approach integrates innovations in social science and public
policy with science and engineering to promote social justice, reduce
inequalities and redistribute power (electric power, economic power and
political power).
Friederike Eyssel is a Professor of Psychology and Head of the
research group “Applied Social Psychology and Gender Research” at the Center
for Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), Bielefeld University, Germany.
Friederike received her PhD in Psychology from Bielefeld University in 2007.
Friederike is interested in various research topics ranging from social
robotics, social agents, and ambient intelligence, to research on attitudes,
their measurement and change, and gender research. Crossing disciplines, Dr.
Eyssel has published her cross-disciplinary research in leading journals in the
field of psychology and social robotics. A perspective on robot gender has
recently been published in Nature. She co-authored the book “Human-Robot
Interaction”, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. In 2021, she
also co-authored the book “Robots in Education” published by Routledge.
Roundtable
Emer Cahill is the Programme and Communications Manager
for the Irish Research Council with responsibility for the Laureate Programme,
Gender Net Plus and equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives within the
agency. Through participation on various committees and Community of Practice
forums with fellow European funding agencies, Emer works to establish best
practice in relation to EDI in research funding and works to implement new
processes.
Duygu Celik is an Advisor to the President of the
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TUBİTAK), since 2021.
She was a Scientific Officer at the ERC between 2019-2021. She was a postdoctoral
researcher in the Physics Department at the University of California, San Diego
(UCSD), working on materials exhibiting strongly correlated electron phenomena
after completing both her Masters’s and Ph.D. degrees in Condensed Matter
Physics at Cukurova University. Her research addresses strongly correlated
electron phenomena in a novel transition metal, rare earth, and actinide-based
oxides and intermetallic compounds. She is responsible for the development and
implementation of TUBİTAK’s Gender Equality Plan.
Claudia Sanguineti is Head of the European Research Office at the
University of Genoa and of the APRE (Agency for the Promotion of European
Research) Liguria Desk, where she provides consultancy and training activities
for the presentation of project proposals in the context of European research
and innovation funding programs. European Research Office also supports all
project management phases, including reporting and response to audits by the
European Commission. It organises events and initiatives to promote
participation in the EC framework research programme.
7 September, Wed
10:00 – 14:00
Program
Gender School opening and presentation
Basic Concepts and Definitions
Keynote Speech: Tomas Brage
Roundtable: Integrating gender in EU and national research funding
Emer Cahill, Duygu Çelik, Giulia Sanguineti8 September, Thurs
10:00 – 14:00
Case Study 1 : Inés Novella
Presentation of research proposal exercise
Gendered innovations case study selection and preliminary discussion
WS 1, Developing a research project
9 September, Fri
10:00 – 14:00
Case Study 2: Jennie Stephens
Gendered innovations case study preparation and presentations
WS 2 Research Design
10 September, Sat
10:00 – 14:00
Case Study 3: Friderike Eyssel
Advice Clinics
GenderEX network
WS 3 Research impact
11 September, Sun
10:00 – 13:30
World Café
Presentations of research proposals
GenderEX network
Key lesseons learnt
Closing and next steps
