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2017 Women’s Congress: Women and Public Space

Women’s Congress 2017 addressed women’s right to access to and safety in public space as a public issue. Public space (both physical and online) is often believed to be gender neutral and open to all. Experience and research show that women’s access to and safety in public space(s) continues to be affected by gender-specific limitations. On the most general level, women who enter public space often face gender-based attacks, threats of violence and bullying.

Snaphots from conference on mentoring programs

On 23 November 2017 NKC – Gender & Science hosted a conference of the European mentoring programmes and the EUMENT-NET Network General Assembly. Book of presented mentoring programs © Tomáš Princ.

Konference mentoringových programů: foto

23. listopadu 2017 hostilo NKC – gender a věda konferenci evropských mentoringových programů a valné shromáždění sítě EUMENT-NET. © Tomáš Princ.

Interviews about mentoring: new publication

Martina Fucimanová and Kateřina Cidlinská of the Center for Gender and Science conducted interviews with participants of our mentoring programme for junior researchers. Read about their motivations, expectations and reflections of the programme benefits. To download the publication click here.

Kateřina Cidlinská is a new chair of EUMENT-NET

European network of mentoring programms has a new chair and executive board. Elected by general assembly, that was held in Prague on 24th November 2017 their task will be strenghtening of cooperation, education and sharing of good practice. On the picture from left: Dagmar Höppel- Universität Stuttgart, Kateřina Cidlinská – NKC – gender & science, Ekaterina Masetkina – Universität Düsseldorf a Olivia Och – Université de Genève.

Marcela Linková is chair of ERAC SWG

Marcela Linková, coordinator of the Genderaction project, was elected the chair of the ERAC Standing Working Group on Gender in Research and Innovation on  October 18 2017. Benjamin Monnoye of the Directorate of Scientific Research, Belgium is the new vice-chair. ERAC SWG GRI is a successor of Helsinki Group on Gender in Research and Innovation.

Conference on structural change

Conference on new policies and instruments to promote structural changes in order to achieve gender equality in science. The conference will take place in Brussels on 28-29 November 2017. Date: 28-29 November 2017 Venue: Brussels, Hotel Le Plaza Brussels located in Boulevard Adolphe Max 118-126 The Department for Equal Opportunities of the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers, project coordinator, is pleased to invite you to the final conference of the TRIGGER project entitled...

Conference on mentoring programs in academia

NKC — gender & science and Eument-net invite to the workshop of mentoring programs. Date: 23. 11. 2017 Venue: Academic conference centre (AKC), Husova 4a, Prague, Czech Republic The aim of the event is to discuss and find the possibilities of international and interdisciplinary collaboration among academic mentoring programs and academic institutions to strengthen international and interdisciplinary research collaboration of researchers through cooperation of individual mentoring programs. To share experiences among coordinators of academic mentoring programs...

Science Is Cultural Product

Interview with David Moore What do you focus on in your research? In general, I do critical sociological research on alcohol and other drug use and the harms associated with this use. Besides academic outcomes, NDRI’s research is also funded to inform government policy and practice. Our focus is always on “alcohol and other drug use”, which is a term used widely in the Australia sector to remind people that alcohol is also a drug....

On Gender & Science with Nobel Prize Winning Scientist

Interview with May-Britt Moser The fact we (as mammals) know where we are, and can navigate our way to other places was – for a long time – one of the biggest mysteries in our understanding of the brain. In 2005 May-Britt Moser, with her then husband Edvard I. Moser, solved this mystery; discovering grid cells in our brain that are believed to constitute our positioning system. Their work has given us some of our...