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Collaborative & Inclusive Research Cultures and Gender Equality: Tuesday 25^th March 12-1pm (online)

Strathclyde’s Cultures of Collaborative Research programme is a 2-year Wellcome funded project to enhance collaborative research culture. Join this event to hear from some of the project teams who have been funded through the programme’s first funding call and who are working on projects to advance gender equality.

Representatives will discuss their projects before joining a panel discussion on challenges and approaches to gender equality in research and innovation cultures.

Strathclyde Women in KTP 

Project team: Elaine Wallace, Eileen Maltby and Andrew Kinnear 

Research and Knowledge Exchange Services (RKES) 

This project aims to establish a network that encourages women in academia to engage in Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) by providing targeted support and resources. Academics will be able to directly apply skills developed in a series of workshops, with the added benefit of creating future collaboration opportunities for the University, using a list of pre-identified potential partner organisations. 

Implementing and Evaluating a Gender-based Violence Intervention in Kenya 

Project team: Melanie McCarry, Medina Johnson and Shannon Onyango 

Social Work and Social Policy  

This collaborative project will implement a health-based intervention to tackle domestic abuse and other forms of gender-based violence in Kenya. Our intervention, IRIS-K, will be piloted in three sites in Kenya. Applying a sustainability framework we will train partners to deliver IRIS-K long-term and evaluate its effectiveness and impact.

Making motherhood work: Supporting mothers in academia 

Project team: Carolyn McMillan, Norin Arshed and Juliette Wilson 

Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy & Innovation, Marketing

For more information on the Collaborative Research Cultures programme please see the following links: 

Collaborative Research Cultures Web Page (https://www.strath.ac.uk/research/researchenvironment/collaborativeresearchcultures/) 

Collaborative Cultures SharePoint Site – internal link only (https://strath.sharepoint.com/sites/CollaborativeCultures) 

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