Early academic careers in times of uncertainty. Challenges for gender equality policies and practices
Event details
| Date | 24.11.2016 › 25.11.2016 |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Concerned with fighting against gender stereotypes and promoting an egalitarian gender culture in seven different European universities, the GARCIA project (Gendering the academy and research: Combating career instability and asymmetries) will end in January 2017. This event is the Swiss national conference of the project.
The main results of the GARCIA project will be presented, along with papers from various Swiss higher education and research institutions (swissuniversities, Swiss National Science Foundation, etc.) and other invited speakers.
Sessions will address the socio-historical aspects of academic careers, in relation to the alternative opportunities available on the Swiss labour market, and the effects of gender equality policies in the Swiss context.
8 PRESENTATIONS
By Swiss and international experts of gender inequality issues in the academia
1 KEYNOTE TALK
By Klea FANIKO, Utrecht University, the Netherlands,
and University of Geneva
3 WORKSHOPS
- Promoting an "equality culture" in academic institutions
- Follow the money, find the power issues
- Go abroad, become excellent?
PLENTY OF OCCASIONS FOR SOCIALISING
Exchange best practices in an informal setting
PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION
https://www.lives-nccr.ch/gender2016
The main results of the GARCIA project will be presented, along with papers from various Swiss higher education and research institutions (swissuniversities, Swiss National Science Foundation, etc.) and other invited speakers.
Sessions will address the socio-historical aspects of academic careers, in relation to the alternative opportunities available on the Swiss labour market, and the effects of gender equality policies in the Swiss context.
8 PRESENTATIONS
By Swiss and international experts of gender inequality issues in the academia
1 KEYNOTE TALK
By Klea FANIKO, Utrecht University, the Netherlands,
and University of Geneva
3 WORKSHOPS
- Promoting an "equality culture" in academic institutions
- Follow the money, find the power issues
- Go abroad, become excellent?
PLENTY OF OCCASIONS FOR SOCIALISING
Exchange best practices in an informal setting
PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION
https://www.lives-nccr.ch/gender2016
Links
Practical information
- General public
- Registration required
Organizer
- This conference is jointly organised by the Swiss team of the GARCIA European project, the Equality Programme of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES and the Gender Equality Office of the University of Lausanne.