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This DOCC is built around 8 mini-courses, representing the main thematic areas suggested by the European Commission to build a Gender Equality Plan, plus an additional dedicated course on gendered innovations in sustainable housing design.
The 8 different courses introduce and touch the different aspects of institutional change towards the design and implementation of a Gender Equality Plan: from a general introduction to the dimension of gender in Research & Innovation, touching the basic keys and building blocks of a GEP, until a focus on the 5 thematic areas suggested by the EC for the GEPs: work-life balance; gender in leadership and decision making; gender equality in recruitment; gender in scientific research contents; and gender-based violence. The last, new course on sustainable housing can be considered as an in-depth case study for the integration of gender in the contents of scientific research. All the courses take into account intersectionality as a cross-cutting dimension
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Anne Laure Humbert
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DOROTTYA RÉDAI is an independent scholar working in the field of gender, sexuality and education in Hungary. She has a PhD in Gender Studies from Central European University, Budapest. She is currently affiliated with the Democracy Institute of CEU where she works in the GE Academy project. She is an experienced trainer. Besides her academic work, she is also active in the civic sphere, working with NGOs in the field of gender, sexuality and education and LGBT issues. Her monograph “Exploring Sexuality in Schools. The Intersectional Reproduction of Inequality” was published in 2019 by Palgrave Macmillan. Her new book, co-edited with Maria Tsouroufli, “Gender Equality and Stereotyping in Secondary Schools. Case Studies from England, Hungary and Italy” will also be published by Palgrave Macmillan in August 2021. She received the Emma Goldman Snowball Award from FLAX Foundation in 2020 for her feminist academic and activist work.
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Noirin MacNamara
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Dr Nóirín MacNamara is the EDI Analyst in the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Directorate in TU Dublin. Her research background is in feminist theory and reproductive rights and justice.
Andrea Krizsán
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Andrea Krizsan is Senior Research Fellow at the Democracy Institute and Professor at the School of Public Policy and the Gender Studies Department. She is interested in understanding policy change in countries of Central and Eastern Europe. She works on different equality policy fields including gender equality policy, policies on gender based violence, policies addressing ethnic inequalities and intersectionality. Her current research aims to analyze the politics of policy backsliding in times of crisis and illiberal democracy and forms of resistance to such reversal. Her most recent book on the topic with Conny Roggeband on opposition to the Istanbul Convention and its consequences is forthcoming with Palgrave in 2021. She also co-edited with Abels, MacRae and van den Vleuten the Routledge Handbook on Politics and Gender published in March 2021. She is the recepient of the inaugural Emma Goldman Award for her substantial contributions to the study of feminist and inequality issues in Europe. Her previous publications include a book with C.M. Roggeband which analysed domestic violence policy reforms in five Central and Eastern European countries (Routledge, 2018), articles in Politics and Governance, European Journal of Politics and Gender, Violence against Women, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Social Politics, and Journal for Ethnic and Minority Studies and chapters in several edited volumes. She edited volumes on gendering democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe (2019, with Roggeband), a on women's movements mobilizing for policy change (2015), on institutionalizing intersectionality and the changing nature of European equality regimes (with J. Squires and H. Skjeie, 2012) and on ethnic monitoring and data collection (2001). Besides her academic work Andrea also acts as the Chair of the CEU Senate Equal Opportunity Committee and she leads the CEU team of the SUPERA Project - Supporting the Promotion of Equality in Research and Academia.
Andrea has a PhD in Political Science from the Central European University.
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Lorena Pajares
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Lorena is a trainer and gender and development consultant, with +20 years of professional experience combined with a strong academic grounding in Social Sciences, participatory research and feminist methodologies. She is currently engaged with the Horizon2020 projects SUPERA (Supporting the Promotion of Equality in Research and Academia) and UniSAFE (Making universities and research organisations safe from gender-based violence) at the Complutense University of Madrid, and has collaborated with many other institutions, Public Administrations and Third Sector organisations in social research and training projects aimed at gender transformative action.
Ana Belen Amil
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Ana Belén Amil is currently working as Gender Equality Officer at Central European University (Budapest) for the EU-funded SUPERA Project (Supporting the Promotion of Equality in Research and Academia). She holds an Erasmus Mundus 2-year Master’s degree in Women's and Gender Studies and two postgraduate degrees in clinical psychology from the University of Buenos Aires.
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Yvonne Galligan
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Yvonne Galligan is Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Professor of Comparative Politics in Technological University Dublin. Yvonne has produced over 100 publications on gender equality, including (with Sara Clavero) ‘Delivering gender justice in academia through gender equality plans? Normative and practical challenges’ in Gender, Work & Organisation (2021). She has led multiple institutional applications for Athena SWAN accreditation. Yvonne has served on a range of public boards in Ireland and the UK dealing with constitutional, political and policy issues. In recognition of her scholarly contributions to gender equality she was granted Honorary Fellowship of Trinity College Dublin and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh.
Mathias Nielsen
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Mathias W. Nielsen is an associate professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a sociologist by training and holds a Ph.D. in social science from Aarhus University. His research focuses on gender in science, including how gender diversity is linked to knowledge outcomes. His Ph.D. dissertation, entitled “New and Persistent Gender Equality Challenges in Academia” was defended in 2015, after which he undertook postdoctoral research in Gendered Innovations at Stanford University. Nielsen was recently a part of the European Commission’s “Gendered Innovations 2” Expert Group and has published numerous papers on the topic of gender in science.
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Vivian Anette Lagesen
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Vivian Anette Lagesen is a sociologist and Professor in Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She has published widely on the topic of gender, science and technology. She has studied inclusion design and inclusion strategies in higher education in informatics and studied software engineering industries in Norway, the US and Malaysia. Her research includes learning and knowledge management in a diversity of workspaces, like ICT companies, consultant engineering companies, and in local governments. Recently, her research has been focused on gender balance and diversity in academia, investigating management, leadership, culture and epistemic living spaces on all levels of university as well as the dynamics between them. She has been a visiting scholar at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University and visiting professor at the Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs at Harvard University.
Fiona MacKay
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Professor Fiona Mackay is a Scottish feminist political scientist whose work examines the ways in which gender inequality is reinforced through political, legal and social institutions. She is interested in the extent to which institutions may be designed or reformed to promote gender justice, inclusion and women’s human rights. Fiona has also served in a variety of academic leader-manager roles at University of Edinburgh, including as Dean and Head of the School of Social and Political Science, one of the largest in the UK. She currently directs the genderED interdisciplinary hub (UoE) and is also founding co-director of FIIN - the Feminism and Institutionalism International Network..
Sara Clavero
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Sara Clavero is Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Technological University Dublin and Deputy Director of the Research Centre in Inclusive and Equitable Cultures (RINCE). She has extensive experience teaching and researching in the field of gender equality. Her interdisciplinary background (philosophy, sociology and political studies) is a major asset when it comes to working with scholars from many disciplines. She has written widely on the gender justice and democracy in the EU and is now focusing on deconstructing the meaning of merit in Higher Education in Europe. Latest publications include “Delivering gender justice in academia through gender equality plans? Normative and practical challenges”, Gender, Work & Organization (2021, with Y. Galligan) and “Analysing gender and institutional change in academia: evaluating the utility of feminist institutionalist approaches”, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management (2020, with Yvonne Galligan).
Heidi Mertens
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Heidi Mertens is the coordinator of the KU Leuven Diversity Policy Office. In close collaboration with her team, the Vice-rector of Diversity Policy, the Diversity Council and a network of Diversity teams she coordinates KU Leuven’s diversity policy. The KU Leuven diversity policy focusses on two overarching goals: creating an inclusive culture as a basic condition for successful learning and career development for students and staff of all backgrounds, and promoting diverse recruitment and retention of students and staff by means of specific actions. Next to that, she is also responsible for the KU Leuven harassment desk.
Roger A. Søraa
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Dr. Roger Andre Søraa is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture (KULT), NTNU, Norway. He holds a PhD. in Science and Technology Studies. His research focuses on automation, robotization, and digitalization of society – how humans and technology relate to each other. Søraa is especially interested in the social domestication of technology, see, e.g., his research on hospital robots and gerontechnology of the home. He is also affiliated with the Department of Neuroscience, where he works on the project LIFEBOTS. He is affiliated with RURALIS, where he researches on SmaT – Smart technology for sustainable agriculture. Søraa has published numerous articles and books on automation, robotics, digitalization, including 《The social dimension of domesticating technology: Interactions between older adults, caregivers, and robots in the home》 (2021) on Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Vol. 167. with Pernille Nyvoll, Gunhild Tøndel, Eduard Fosch-Villaronga and Artur Serrano.
Jadranka Gvozdanovic
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Jadranka Gvozdanović is a linguistics professor at Heidelberg University and a gender expert. In both fields, her research focuses on change processes, on how and why change begins and which factors contribute to adoption of change or resistance to it. Concerning gender, she focuses on modification of structural factors involving all the levels of an institution, and the importance of communication.
She holds leading positions in scholarly associations and is currently Chair of the LERU Group on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Within LERU, she contributed to position statements about gender equality and (co-)authored the following papers: “The European Research Area: Priorities for Research Universities (2011) , “Women, research and universities: excellence without gender bias” (2012),
“Implicit bias in academia: A challenge to the meritocratic principle and to women’s careers – and what to do about it” (2018)
Andrea Bardyn
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Andrea Bardyn is a policy advisor at KU Leuven’s Diversity Policy Office, with a focus on HR, gender and diversity. Her policy work focusses on recruitment, inclusion and wellbeing of academic and non-academic staff. Among others, she supports the Gender Vanguards of KU Leuven, who prevent gender bias in assessment committees and constitute a core measure in KU Leuven’s gender policy. She also manages a project to improve gender equality among academic staff in STEM-faculties at KU Leuven.
Sabine Oertelt-Prigione
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Sabine Oertelt-Prigione MD, PhD, MScPH has been working in the field of sex and gender-sensitive research for the last 15 years. She is a physician, researcher, organizational consultant and coach. At the various stations of her career, she focused on different aspects of sex and gender differences in health, spanning from sex differences in autoimmunity to gender differences in cardiovascular diseases and sexual harassment in academia. Since 2017 she is the chair of gender in primary and transmural care at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands and since 2021 also professor of sex- and gender-sensitive medicine at the University of Bielefeld. Her focus is on the practical implementation of sex- and gender-sensitive research through the analysis of practices, development of methods and engagement of stakeholders. Next to her academic activities she was a member of the EU Commission´s expert group “Gendered Innovations”, consults with national governments and funding agencies on the implementation of sex- and gender-sensitive healthcare and prevention of gender discrimination and harassment.
Bente Knoll
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Bente Knoll holds a Master’s Degree in Landscape Planning and Architecture, a PhD in Transport and Traffic Planning and a certificate in mainstreaming-Gender-and-Diversity-in-Organisations. She is managing director of B-NK GmbH Büro für nachhaltige Kompetenz (Consultancy for Sustainable Competence) – a SME and independent research institute and consultancy located in Vienna, Austria. In planning and communication processes as well as in technology research and development projects the Consultancy for Sustainable Competence points out the relevance of gender and diversity and develops action-oriented solutions towards gender equality and quality management. Bente Knoll’s main professional interests and area of expertise are in integrating gender and diversity perspectives in research and consulting processes in science, engineering, technology, urban, transport and landscape planning, mobility research as well as sustainable development. In addition to her work as a consultant, Bente Knoll holds teaching assignments – basic and advanced lecture.
Vera Regitz-Zagrosek
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Cardiologist and founder of the Institute of Gender in Medicine and of the International Society Gender Medicine (IGM). Coordinator of 3 gender related European projects, EUGENMED - Roadmap to Gender implementation in Biomedicine, EUGIM -European Curriculum in Gender Medicine, and GENCAD - Gender in coronary artery disease. Coordinator of the first DFG Research projects on Sex and Gender, 2001 -2015, “Gender in myocardial hypertrophy” and the pilot project “Gender Medicine” (BMBF). Task Force Leader for the Guidelines “Cardiovascular Diseases in Pregnancy” of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Focus of work: sex- and gender specific mechanisms in cardiovascular diseases.
Maxime Forest
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Maxime is currently involved as evaluator or trainer in a number of EU funded structural change projects such as Gender Smart, Gearing Roles, SUPERA and RESET. He has participated in numerous applied research projects devoted to the comparative analysis of gender equality policies in the EU, including in the field of research and innovation, and contributed to the development of the GEAR tool for EIGE and DG Research. Maxime served as an executive member of the French High Council for Gender Equality and a member of the Advisory Committee on Gender Equality of the European Commission (2013-2019). He has published extensively on gender equality policies and gender expertise. Recent publications include a chapter on Europeanization in Abels G., MacRae H., Kriszan A. (eds.), and The Routledge Handbook on Gender and EU politics (Routledge, 2021), The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer: gender training and gender expertise co-edited with L. Ferguson and M. Bustelo (Palgrave, 2016)
Susan Buckingham
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Susan Buckingham is an independent researcher and consultant on gender and environmental issues. With thirty five years experience of academic research, teaching and management, and twenty years experience of volunteering in women's organisations, she now works independently on projects which will advance environmental and gender justice. Susan believes that there can be no solutions to environmental problems without addressing social injustices, and that social and environmental problems, and their solutions, need to be understood as interconnected. Susan Buckingham is the author of the book “Gender and Environment” (Routledge, 2020) an international reference book explaining the inter-relationship between gender relations and environmental problems and practices, and how they affect and impact on each other.
Trine Rogg Korsvik
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Trine Rogg Korsvik is Senior Adviser at Kilden genderresearch.no. She holds a Ph.D. in history, specialized in the history of feminism and women's movements. She has experience from European research cooperation on gender related issues and as a researcher and lecturer at the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo. Since 2017, she is running the Kilden initiated project Integrating the Gender Dimension in Research, presenting best practices from a variety of scientific fields, and is managing Kilden’s women’s history project kvinnehistorie.no. Trine has published numerous articles and books on gender related topics, including «What is the Gender Dimension in Research?», with Linda Marie Rustad.
Sofia Strid
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Sofia Strid is Associate Professor in Gender Studies, Örebro University, Sweden. She is the Research Leader of the Centre of Violence Studies and Co-Director of the GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies. She has held positions as lecturer and researcher in Gender Studies, Policy Research, Political Science, and Sociology in Austria, Belgium, Sweden, and the UK. With 20 years professional experience in research and education, she has worked extensively on developing concepts for theorising, methodologies for measuring, and policy for preventing gender-based violence, e.g., as Scientific Coordinator of UniSAFE: Gender-based violence and institutional responses (EUH2020); Principal Investigator of Violence Regimes (Swedish Research Council), and as a researcher in QUING: Quality Gender+ Equality Policy in the EU (EU FP6). She has published extensively on violence, most recently: States of violence, in Journal of European Social Policy (2021); Undoing the Nordic ‘paradox’, in PLOS ONE (2021); and From gender regimes to violence regimes, in Social Politics (2020) (all with Balkmar, Hearn and Humbert).
Nathalie Wuiame
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Nathalie Wuiame, is an independent consultant working for Yellow Window, and a lecturer at Rennes University (France) in gender equality on the work floor. Nathalie has developed her expertise on gender equality for 25 years. Since 2008, she delivered trainings on gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting and gender equality for the Council of Europe and for public administrations in Belgium. She is a member of the European Network of legal experts in gender equality (equalitylaw.eu)
She has been involved since 2000 in evaluation and monitoring of the integration of gender in research policies. She was involved in the gender impact assessment study of the Human Potential and Socio-Economic Knowledge of the 5th Framework Programme in the Gender monitoring of the Mobility actions under FP6 and the feasibility study for the creation of the European Platform of women’s scientists. She is currently engaged in two Horizon 2020 projects, UniSAFE, aiming at making Universities and research organisations safe of gender based violence (https://unisafe-gbv.eu) and RESITERE, on reducing gendered inequalities caused by COVID 19 (https://resistire-project.eu) as member of the Yellow Window team.
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Lucy Ferguson
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Lucy Ferguson has worked for Yellow Window as a trainer for the Gender Equality Academy, including managing and facilitating the Training of Trainers Programme 2020 and 2021. She has recently facilitated a number of workshops on resistances to gender equality in research and innovation. She has collaborated with a range of institutions as a trainer and researcher on structural change for gender equality, including UN Women, ICT-ILO, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the European Commission. She is the author of a number of publications on gender training, including: ‘Exploring privilege through feminist gender training’, (European Journal of Politics and Gender, February 2019); Working Paper Series on Training for Gender Equality (UN Women Training Centre, 2019); Gender Training: a transformative tool for gender equality (Palgrave, 2018); and The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer: Gender Training and Gender Expertise, co-edited with María Bustelo and Maxime Forest (Palgrave, 2016).
Lut Mergaert
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Lut Mergaert is an experienced Research Director and gender expert at Yellow Window, with a demonstrated history of setting up and coordinating multi-country research projects. Skilled in Gender Mainstreaming, Capacity-building, Evaluations, EU Gender Equality policy, International Relations, and Project Coordination. Strong research professional with a PhD focused in Management Sciences from Radboud University Nijmegen. Lut is Scientific Director of the GE Academy Project, and with YW partner in several H2020 projects on Institutional Change
Maria Sangiuliano
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Maria Sangiuliano, PhD in Cognitive and Learning Studies, senior gender expert and researcher, has 20 years’ experience in EU funded projects and programmes on gender equality. Her research and work is located at the intersections between social and technological innovation to make innovation policies and processes more sustainable and inclusive through diversity sensitive co-design and participatory design methods. Among her most recent endeavours, Maria was in charge of supporting the recently concluded H2020 EQUAL-IST partners in achieving institutional change for gender equality and is currently leading the Smart Venice team in the GE Academy consortium and other projects.
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Vasia Madesi
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Vasia Madesi is an experienced professional in EU project management, with a specialization in coordination and support of European Research and Innovation projects. She holds a BSc in Political Sciences from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an MSc in Political Theory and Philosophy. Since 2014, Vasia has participated in the implementation of several research and innovation projects which cover various sectors, including entrepreneurship, innovation and technology with a gender+ and inclusion dimension. She is currently part of the Train the Trainers network of the GE Academy project.
Agostina Allori
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Agostina Allori is a Gender Equality Consultant and Gender Trainer. She is Argentinean-Italian. She holds a JD from Universidad de San Andrés, a Master of Laws (LL.M) from Michigan Law School and an LL.M in International Human Rights Law from Central European University. She is a specialist in women’s rights and has extensive experience conducting empirical research in the field of reproductive justice and women’s health. She is involved in several Yellow Window projects on institutional change in research, innovation and higher education and is a core member for Yellow Window’s team in CASPER. Spanish is her native language; she is also fluent in English and has working knowledge of French and Italian.
Sergi Yanes
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Sergi Yanes, Ph.D. in Social Anthropology. He is currently working on the ACT project within the Gender and ICT research group (GenTIC) of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). His scientific interests include urban and social inequalities, ordering and social control. He has worked as a research assistant at the institute of Government and Public Policy (IGOP) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), for the evaluation plan of the basic income trial experiment B-MINCOME (Urban Innovative Action-EU), and previously he has been part of the coordination staff of an educational program from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay (MEC). He is a member of the Catalan Institute of Anthropology.
Jörg Müller
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Jörg Müller is senior researcher at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3 – UOC) in Barcelona, Spain where he forms part of the Gender and ICT research program. He obtained his PhD in Communications at the European Graduate School (EGS) in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and holds a degree in Sociology and Computer Science from the Free-University in Berlin, Germany. He has been coordinating several European projects on gender and science, including “GenPORT – Your gateway to gender and science resources” (2013-2017), GEDII – “Gender-Diversity-Impact” (2015-2018) and “ACT - Communities of Practice for Accelerating Gender Equality and Institutional Change in Research and Innovation across Europe” (2018-2021). Main research interests include practice-based approach to gender (in)equality, the science of team science, and new, data intensive research methods within the social sciences.
Jennifer de Vries
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Dr Jennifer de Vries is a gender strategy and organisational development consultant and researcher (www.jendevries.com). Jen’s passion is to create more gender equitable organisations, where all can thrive.
Jen completed her PhD at the University of Western Australia, followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the GEXcel (Centre of Gender Excellence) University of Orebro, Sweden. Her particular specialisation is organisational culture change, and how this can be pursued through linking individual development to organisational change. Jen calls this a ‘bifocal approach’, where a clear focus on changing organisations is underpinned by a capacity building approach.
Jen brings a research driven approach to the strategic design and implementation of gender equity and staff development programs and interventions and has successfully applied the ‘bifocal approach’ to leadership and mentoring programs for groups including women and early career academics. Her expertise in the area of gender equality and transformative organisational change is internationally acknowledged, with clients based in Australia, New Zealand, UK and Europe.
A continuous strand running through Jen’s work is her design and facilitation of women’s leadership development programs and her expertise in the areas of mentoring and sponsorship for women. She was commissioned by Universities Australia Executive Women and the LH Martin Institute to write Mentoring for Change, a guide to establishing good practice programs across the sector. Her subsequent research examining sponsorship practices is now available as Sponsorship: Creating Career Opportunities for Women in Higher Education, published by Universities Australia Executive Women.
Jen is now placing increasing emphasis on engaging men in gender equality work and has partnered with Tim Muirhead in developing the Partners for Change program. This cutting edge program brings men and women together as partners in creating organisations where all can thrive.
Tim Muirhead
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Over more than 30 years Tim Muirhead, of the “CSD Network” has amassed wide experience in all aspects of personal, community and organisational development. The CSD Network, established in 1993, specialises in these fields, working with all spheres of government, as well as the business, academic and not-for-profit sectors.
At all times Tim works to foster collaborative approaches between people with often diverse knowledge, skills and perspectives. He has a particular interest in building understanding across these different perspectives.
This has included work between men and women, but also between different spheres of Government; between African communities and mainstream agencies; between residents with different views on local priorities, between community and agency workers, and between (Australian) Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.
The latter has always been done in partnership with Aboriginal colleagues. As a non-Aboriginal person, Tim explores, with other members of the ‘dominant culture’, what we can do to build a healthier relationship with Aboriginal people. More recently, Tim has worked with Dr Jen De Vries to bring the lessons of this Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal dialogue to the challenges and possibilities of gender partnership.
Tim is the author of “Weaving Tapestries – the new handbook for building communities” and Finding Heraan, an allegory about how we hold our truths while still remaining open to the often different truths of others.
For more information about Tim please go to www.csdnetwork.com.au
Liisa Husu
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Liisa Husu is a Finnish sociologist and Senior Professor of Gender Studies at Örebro University, Sweden. She has been engaged in gender and science issues in research, policy and civil society since the early 1980s, including research and policy development concerning sexism and sexual harassment in working life and academia. Her research focuses on gender in science, academia and knowledge production, especially gender dynamics and inequalities in scientific careers, organisations and science policy. She is an internationally recognized gender expert, advising ministries, international and national agencies, funding organisations and universities, and has played an active role in European research development and actions on gender and science since late 1990s, in EC expert groups, networks, and numerous EC gender and science research projects, participating currently in the EC UniSAFE project on gender-based violence in universities. She is: scientific adviser of the European Women Rectors’ Association, EWORA; and advisory board member of GENIE – Chalmers University of Technology ten-year Gender Initiative for Excellence.
Marcela Linková
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Marcela Linková PhD is the head of the Centre for Gender and Science at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on sociology of gendered organizations, research careers, governance of research and research assessment as well as the analysis of public policies for gender equality in R&I. She is the chair of the ERAC Standing Working Group on Gender in Research and Innovation. Marcela is the coordinator of Horizon 2020 GENDERACTION and participates in GE Academy, Gender-SMART, CASPER, UniSAFE and RESISTIRE. Her work has appeared in European Journal of Women’s Studies, Gender and Research, and Science and Public Policy, among others. With Mary Frank Fox and Kjersten Bunker Whittington she contributed to the 4th edition of the Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (2018) and with Lut Mergaert to the Routledge Handbook of Gender and EU Politics (2021).
Inés Sánchez de Madariaga
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Inés Sánchez de Madariaga is UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality Policies in Science, Technology and Innovation and Professor of Urban Planning at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and a leading international expert on gender in city planning, architecture and STEM with extensive experience in both public policy and research. She is member of the Leadership Advisory Council of the Spanish UN-Sustainable Solutions Development Network and an Advisor to the Executive Director of UN-Habitat. She has been Chair of the international COST network Gender, Science, Technology and Environment, genderSTE; co-Director of the EU-US Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment. As a member of the European Commission Helsinki Group on Gender in Research and Innovation and Chair the EC Expert Group on Structural Change of Research Organizations, she played a key role in the negotiations to introduce gender as a central element of the EC research program Horizon2020. She is/has been member of the Scientific Advisory Committees of the European projects Genport, Genovate, Gender Action, RRITools, Libra, Sagerip, GEDII, and Principal Investigator of the EC FP projects Gender-Net, RRING, GE-Academy, and TRIGGER. She is an EC Urbact expert and a member of the Scientific Committee of the UNESCO global project to promote gender in science SAGA. She has held public office in Spain as Deputy Director General for Architecture, Advisor to the Minister of Housing, Advisor to the Minister of Science and Innovation, Director of the Women and Science Unit at the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Research, Technology and Development. She is a former Fulbright grantee and she has been Visiting Researcher at the Bauhaus-Weimar in Germany, the London School of Economics, and Columbia University in the City of New York.
Inés Novella Abril
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Inés Novella Abril holds a Master in Architecture and a Master in Equal Opportunities, she also studied at the Eesti Kunstiakadeemia Urban Studies Master during 2005-2006. As part of the Department of Urban Planning of the Technical University of Madrid, she is a researcher and project coordinator at the UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality Policies in Science, Technology and Innovation. Her research focuses on gender-responsive spatial planning and design, and on structural change and gender policies in STEM institutions. Inés has participated in different European projects on gender equality and responsible research and innovation (RRI) in S&T institutions (genderSTE, TRIGGER, RRING, GE-Academy, Gendered Innovations). She has been visitor researcher and guest lecturer at different Spanish and European universities. Inés has been in charge of a number of training courses on gender in STEM fields targeting professionals, researchers and managers from both public and private institutions. Her most recent works are the consultancy for the Spanish government on gender and housing, and for ADIF (Administrator of Railway Infrastructures in Spain) on how to introduce gender criteria in the planification of railway infrastructures and stations. She is the author and co-author of different toolkits, articles and book chapters on gender in spatial planning. Inés is the Western Europe Area Editor of the Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, to be published in 2021. Her participatory action research with women on safety in public space has been recently selected for the Spanish Pavilion in the 2018 Edition of the Venice Biennale of Architecture. She is at the moment a consultant for different regional administrations on gender in territorial and urban planning, housing and mobility.
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