2025: Online Course - Gender Equality as a Diverse Phenomenon

Gender Equality as a Diverse Phenomenon (5 ECTS) online course with open lectures in Zoom organised by the UActic Thematic Network on Gender in the Arctic Knowledge Production. The focus of this joint course is to explore intersectional gender equality in northern contexts from various perspectives, led by northern researchers from the Arctic universities.  The course meetings will be held on Tuesday afternoons from 14:15 to 15:45 in Finland - 13:15 to 14:45 in Sweden/Norway. All interested audience including researchers and students are welcome to join the lecture series via the following Zoom. Please find the full program here.

2023: Concepts for Gender Equality Work and Research

The Prestige project has published a new book in Routledge on The Gender Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academia: A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Transformation. The book is open access and crutinises the conceptual framework for diversity, equity, and inclusion actions in academia to facilitate research-based and critically reflected decisions in higher education management. The book contains 24 chapters, each focused on one of 24 fundamental concepts that are essential for identifying, understanding, and implementing organizational changes and counteracting unjustified disadvantages faced by women and members of other gender minorities in academia, preceded by an introductory binding chapter.

2020: UiT Balancinator web app is born

The Balancinator is a free and open-source software to visualize distribution of men and women within a specific unit. It was originally created in 2020 by Lilli & Matthias Mittner. The Balancinator allows anyone to build generic plots by inserting simple excel sheets instead of writing programming code. The Balancinator allows you to build generic plots that require no coding experiences and to download high quality image files for your report, presentation, poster, role-up etc. You can find and try the app here: https://en.uit.no/resources/balancinator.