Webinars

Participation was possible without leaving the workplace: with a headset, a suitable internet connection, and a webcam.

For the events we used a widely used free web conferencing system, Flashmeeting. We offer free orientation sessions before the webinars take place (duration about 15 Minutes). Additionally we offered participants to show them how to use Flashmeeting for networking and exchanging experiences in the future.


  Mobility and precarity in the early career stages: a gender perspective

23 February 2012, 13 - 15 (CET)
Kick-off presentation by Marcela Linková

Marcela Linková is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the coordinator of the National Contact Centre for Women and Science. Her area of expertise is gender equality and equal opportunities in research, research careers and research organization, public accountability and research assessment..

Background information on her presentation:
Knowing and Living in Academic Research. Convergence and Heterogeneity in Research Cultures in the European Context (in PDF format), pp. 145 - 153.

Academic Duets: On the professional and private lives in science.


  How and why to implement new evaluation criteria

8 February 2012, 13 - 15 (CET)
Kick-off presentation by Flavia Zucco

Flavia Zucco is a biologist (in vitro cellular differentiation and toxicology) and retired 2009, after being Head of Research at the Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine of Italy's National Research Council. From 1980 she has also been active in bioethics and women in science. She has founded and has been the first president of Donne e Scienza (Women and Science).


  On gender aspects of changes in prevailing science cultures

20 January 2012, 10 - 12 (CET)
Kick-off presentation by Ulrike Felt

Ulrike Felt is professor of social studies of science since 1999 and head of the STS department at the University of Vienna.

Background information on her presentation:
Knowing and Living in Academic Research. Convergence and Heterogeneity in Research Cultures in the European Context (in PDF format), especially Chapter VI, Ulrike Felt's concluding remarks.


  On the Norwegian way of gender-fair recruitment and retention and the experiences with it

12 January 2012, 10 - 12 (Central European Time (CET)
Kick-off presentation by Linda Rustad

Linda Rustad is Senior Advisor for the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions' Committee for Gender Balance in Research.

Background information on her presentation:
Talent at stake. Changing the culture of research – gender-sensitive leadership: A booklet by the Committee designed to inspire everyone who wants to do something to increase diversity and promote greater gender balance within the research sector.

How to convince policymakers and leaders that gender equality is an important issue in research? The Committee has developed some arguments.


Contributors and participants