Ljubljana Declaration Gender Equality in Research and Innovation
Autor/in:
Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
Quelle: , 2021.
Inhalt: The Ljubljana Declaration refers to shared European values and calls on Member States and other countries to fully acknowledge gender mainstreaming as a horizontal principle and jointly work on improvement in six priority areas of gender equality:
Ensure fair, open, inclusive and gender equal career paths in research, and consider intersectional perspectives on gender inequalities;
Facilitate mutual learning opportunities through form-follows-function robust governance;
Employ existing and newly developed tools, such as Gender Equality Plans, to facilitate systemic institutional change and remove institutional barriers;
Address and counteract gender-based violence;
Support active monitoring and evaluation to ensure continuous improvement; and
Leverage synergies to enhance gender equality achievements within the European Research Area, but also within complementary fields such as the European Higher Education Area, Cohesion policy funds, innovation ecosystems, as well as in international cooperation.
The Declaration was drafted ”bottom up”, with the support of the current and upcoming Trio Presidencies European Research Area and Innovation Committee (ERAC) Standing Working Group on Gender in Research and Innovation (SWG GRI) representatives.
Schlagwörter:EU; Europäische Gemeinschaft; european research area; gender equality; gender equality plan; Innovation; intersectionality; intersektionale Perspektive; research
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Wissenschaftspolitik, Gleichstellungspolitik
Policy framing and resistance : Gender mainstreaming in Horizon 2020
Autor/in:
Vida, Bianka
Quelle: European Journal of Women's Studies, 28 (2021) 1, S 26–41
Inhalt: Scholarship on gender mainstreaming (GM) in the European Union (EU) consistently highlights the disappointing implementation of gender mainstreaming. This article contributes to that discussion through the analysis of the first policy frame on gender equality in the work programmes of the EU’s Framework Programme for Research and Development, Horizon 2020, from 2014 until 2016. This article analyses how GM as a transformative strategy is contextualised by advisory group experts, and what is being achieved within Horizon 2020 work programmes. In opposition to the Commission’s rhetorical commitment to GM, this article demonstrates that Horizon 2020 work programmes exemplify a failure of implementing GM, further depoliticising gender equality in the Commission’s neoliberal context.
Gender equality in research funding : A study of 11 European Countries, Israel, and Canada - Deliverable 6.3
Autor/in:
Hermansson, Kenth; Jacobsson, Carl; Österberg, Richard
Quelle: GENDER-NET Plus; , 2021.
Inhalt: This report examines the gender equality situation in European research funding, with the Canadian situation as a perspective. In-depth studies of the 13 GENDER-NET Plus countries are complemented by the analysis of aggregated data from the Gender Gap Index, and, for the European countries, data from Eurostat and She Figures. The European Commission report The Gender Challenge in Research Funding from 2009 serves as a base line for the analysis.
Gendered Innovations 2 : How inclusive analysis contributes to research and innovation - H2020 Expert Group to update and expand “Gendered Innovations/ Innovation through Gender”
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Wissenschaftspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
Universities as political institutions : Higher education institutions in the middle of academic, economic and social pressures
Herausgeber/in:
Weimer, Leasa; Nokkala, Terhi
Quelle: Leiden; Boston: Brill Sense (Higher education research in the 21st century series, 12), 2020. 336 S
Inhalt: Universities can be viewed and studied as political institutions, especially considering that they sit at the crossroads of social, cultural, and economic pressures. The internal and external environment of higher education brings with it multiple and complex relationships as well as power struggles. Within these contested political spaces, there are phenomena to be studied.
While the field of higher education draws from a multitude of disciplines, some scholars argue that only recently has scholarship focused on the political perspectives of higher education. To better understand the politics and policies of higher education, Universities as Political Institutions illuminates a variety of ways that researchers view and study universities as a political institution, from considering the national and international political pressures shaping higher education to the analysis of responses and political action from within the ivory tower.
The 2017 annual CHER conference in Jyväskylä (Finland) brought together 213 scholars from 30 countries. This book includes a selection of papers and keynote presentations from this conference. The thematic approach of the book reflects the 2017 conference theme: "Universities as Political Institutions – Higher Education Institutions in the Middle of Academic, Economic, and Social Pressures". The theme focused on multiple and often complex relations and relationships, internal and external, to higher education institutions. In this context, "political" refers not only to definitions, uses, and users of power but more broadly to a variety of relationships among different actors and agencies responsible for making, executing, or resisting decisions concerning higher education institutions.
Schlagwörter:Hochschulentwicklung; Hochschulpolitik; Institution; internationaler Vergleich; Organisation; Universität
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Wissenschaftspolitik, Hochschulen
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Multi-Level State Interventions and Gender Equality in Higher Education Institutions: The Irish Case
Autor/in:
O’Connor, Pat; Irvine, Gemma
Quelle: Administrative Sciences, 10 (2020) 4, 98 S
Inhalt: Much of the work on gender equality in higher educational institutions (HEIs) has concentrated on the organizational level. The original contribution of this article lies in its focus on state policy developments and interventions. We focus on Ireland as a specific national context, highlighting multi-level state interventions and looking at their impact on HEIs. Using secondary data analysis (including documentary analysis) and focusing particularly on the period since 2014, state initiatives to tackle the problem of gender inequality from various angles are outlined. They include the introduction of Athena SWAN; the Expert Group Review; the Gender Equality Taskforce; the Senior Academic Leadership Initiative; research funding agency initiatives and those around sexual harassment. In evaluating their impact, we look at the gender pay gap, the gender profile of the professoriate and senior management as well as other indicators of cultural change in HEIs. The article concludes that the best possibility of leveraging change arises when it is driven at the state (macro); the HEI (meso) and the situational (micro) level simultaneously, by gender competent leaders willing to tackle the historically male dominated, masculinist criteria, procedures, processes and micropolitical practices that are "normalized" in HEIs.
Nationale Evaluationssysteme für Forschung in Hochschulen – Gender Bias im europäischen Vergleich
Autor/in:
Leišytė, Liudvika; Peksen, Sude
Quelle: Leistungsbewertung in wissenschaftlichen Institutionen und Universitäten. Eine mehrdimensionale Perspektive. Isabell M. Welpe (Hrsg.), Jutta Stumpf-Wollersheim (Hrsg.), Nicholas Folger (Hrsg.), Manfred Prenzel (Hrsg.), Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. 2020, S 13–41
ACT Community Mapping Report: Cooperation, Barriers and Progress in Advancing Gender Equality in Research Organisations
Autor/in:
Reidl, Sybille; Krzaklewska, Ewa; Schön, Lisa; Warat, Marta
Quelle: Zenodo, 2019.
Inhalt: This deliverable presents the results of the ACT community survey and subsequent analysis. The survey was conducted in order to gain knowledge on existing practices regarding gender equality in Research Performing and Research Funding Organisations, their networks as well as needs and support. Moreover, it aimed at identifying potential members of Communities of Practice (CoPs).
A Social Network Analysis (SNA) shows existing cooperation clusters and identifies central actors in the European landscape of research organisations. It also indicates regions that are so far disconnected from the European network and which are interested in becoming part of a CoP.
The reported barriers and consequent needs of survey respondents further provide important information for the ACT consortium to develop suitable support and helpful tools to promote and strengthen existing and future collaborations.
The survey mainly reached Higher Education Institutions, but also other research institutions, in almost all EU28 countries, which was the regional focus of the study. Half of the respondents are researchers, one third have a leading position and nearly one third hold a position like equal opportunities officer – all these three groups overlap. The interest in ACT turned out to be very high: More than half of the respondents want to become members of a Community of Practice.
Deliverable 1.2 of the ACT project.
Schlagwörter:Communities of Practice; Community mapping; gender equality; Organisational Change; Social Network Analysis
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Netzwerke und Organisationen, Wissenschaftspolitik
Quelle: Gender Work Organ (Gender, Work & Organization), 27 (2019) 2, S 129–148
Inhalt: Universities are increasingly expected to demonstrate the wider societal impacts of academic research. Yet women management scholars were disproportionately under‐represented in leading impact cases in the UK's REF (Research Excellence Framework) 2014. An analysis of 395 REF impact cases for business and management studies with an identifiable lead author revealed that only 25per cent were led by women, of which 54per cent were sole authored. Based on 12 in‐depth interviews with women impact case writers, we use Acker's inequality regimes framework to understand invisible and socially constructed gendering of the UK's policy that is designed to evaluate research impact. In a knowledge‐intensive workplace dominated by men, the shape and degree of gendered bases of inequality, systemic practices, processes and controls result in sub‐optimal talent management and gendered knowledge. We call for university leaders to be proactive in addressing barriers that fail to support or recognize women's leadership of research impact.
Europe's New Scientific Elite : Social mechanisms of science in the european research area
Autor/in:
Hönig, Barbara
Quelle: [S.l.]: Routledge, 2018.
Inhalt: This book examines the question of whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elite formation in the European Research Area. Based on a study of the European Research Council (ERC), the author investigates profound structural change in the social organization of science, as the ERC intervenes in public science systems that, until now, have largely been organized at the national level.
Against the background of an emerging new science policy, Europe’s New Scientific Elite explores the social mechanisms that generate, reproduce and modify existing dynamics of stratification and oligarchization in science, shedding light on the strong normative impact of the ERC’s funding on problem-choice in science, the cultural legitimacy and future vision of science, and the building of new research councils of national, European and global scope.
A comparative, theory-driven investigation of European research funding, this book will appeal to social scientists with interests in the sociology of knowledge.