On January 30, 2017, the Unit of Women’s Studies and Problems in Academia, which is a branch of the Council of Higher Education (CoHE) in Turkey, held a meeting in Ankara titled “Convention of Women’s Studies Centers in Universities.” As the PLOTINA team at Özyeğin University (OzU), we attended this convention which was primarily aimed at evaluating the plans and
Ljubljana, 18 January 2017
PLOTINA was invited to present its activities at thematic event of the project GARCIA: Gendering the Academy and Research: combating Career Instability and Asymmetries.
The event was titled “Gender Equality in Science? Early Career Female Researchers”. Its aim was to discuss gender asymmetry in structural mechanisms and everyday practices in early stage researchers’ career. In addition, the event
Professor Alison Rodger and Dr. Charikleia Tzanakou organised and delivered a Workshop on integrating sex/gender analysis in research and teaching at University of Warwick in January 11-13, 2017 as part of the PLOTINA Consortium meeting. This workshop was an introduction into sex/gender analysis methods in research raising disciplinary aspects of conducting research in various disciplinary environments.
This online portal aims at:
Providing co-ordinated access to resources on gender, science, technology and innovation,
Increasing their visibility, accessibility and usability by classifying and organising them according to stakeholders’ needs,
Promoting exchange of experiences and COLLABORATION
Making the portal and the community of practice sustainable for current and future users.
On this portal, you can find different types of content: articles, policy documents, toolkits,
One of the first action of the project was to agree definitions on Gender Equality, Work-Life Balance and Culture to ensure that all partners have a similar ‘working’ language with a common understanding of the concepts within the PLOTINA project.
The methodology and the agreed definitions of te above cited concepts can all be found in the Deliverable 3.1, ready for