Tomas Brage, "Gender dimensions in research and teaching " (open to everybody)

Monday 27 Nov 2023, 18:00 → 20:00 Europe/Berlin

Nußallee 12/2.006 (PI) - Lecture Hall I (PI)

It has become more or less a standard that funding institutions, such as the European Research Council, ask or even demand applicants to consider the gender dimension in their research, but rarely it is including clear guidelines or instructions. This is especially true when the research is concerned with topics and methods that not “obviously” includes a gender dimension – for example when it is not concerned by objects with sex or gender, or when it is not applied. The Gendered Innovation project of the European Commission and Stanford offers help, but contains very little examples from outside life science and engineering University (see https://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/ ). 

In this talk I introduce the concept of gender dimensions in research and teaching,  with a focus on physics and other math-intensive fields, to show how gender is important to consider for all researchers. I will also show how the content of the research – the knowledge production – is entangled with the culture of our institutions, s