Prestige - Gender Balance in Research Leadership at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Prestige - Gender Balance in Research Leadership at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
The project focuses in particular on:
- Assessments of quality and academic priorities at UiT
- Institutional routines and action plans
- Consciousness and cultural change
The project consists of five work packages:
- Mapping of UiT's research groups and projects with regard to gender balance
- Dialogue with research leaders on research, quality and gender balance
- Workshop-based work on local challenges with gender balance
- Knowledge development around academic history of quality and mechanisms for implicit bias
- Implementation of findings and knowledge from the project in UiT's routines and action plans for gender equality
Prestige: Gender Balance in Research Leadership at UiT The Arctic University of Norway is a research and action project supported by the Norwegian Research Council's BALANSE program. Despite better management and increased awareness on the need for gender equality in all aspects of academia, the largest and most prestigious research projects at UiT are still led by men.