Advancing Gender Equality in Research Organisations Key Factors for Success

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1. Introduction – How effective are Gender Equality Plans for organisational transformation?

Rachel Palmén and Jörg Müller

2. Doing comparative research on Gender Equality Plans across Europe: methodological challenges and insights

Carolina Wienand, Maria Karaulova, and Jörg Müller

3. Strategic Organisational Commitment for change

Jörg Müller and Karolina Sikora

4. Comprehensive data for equalities decision-making

Rachel Palmén

5. Advanced Gender Knowledge for structural change

Lorena Pajares Sánchez and Paola Chaves

6. Communities of Change for inclusive gender equality: from theory to practice

Paola Chaves, Lorena Pajares Sánchez, and Marta Warat

7. Enforceable Legislation

Marta Warat

8. The role of cultural, political, and social context in structural change for inclusive gender equality

Tjaša Cankar, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc, Ewa Krzaklewska, and Paulina Sekuła

9. Comparing outcomes and impact: career progression and prevention of gender-based violence & harassment

Jörg Müller and Lorena Pajares Sánchez

10. From research to practice through co-creation: From GEP success factors to diagnostic tool development

Molly Occhino, Liv Baisner Petersen, and Rachel Palmén. 

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Biography

Jörg Müller, PhD, is Senior Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Social and Cultural Transformations (UOC-TRÀNSIC), at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain. He has coordinated several EC projects on gender equality and science, including GenPORT, GEDII and ACT. His main research interest focuses on relational and practice-based accounts of inequalities using new methodological research approaches.

Rachel Palmén, PhD, is Senior Researcher in the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Social and Cultural Transformations (UOC-TRÀNSIC), at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain. She has worked on various gender and science research projects, including GenPORT, Efforti, TARGET and ACT. Her main research interests include gender (in)equalities in R&I and institutional transformation. She is the coordinator of INSPIRE: The European Centre of Excellence on Inclusive Gender Equality in Research & Innovation.