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Join us for this event on Advancing Gender Equality through Collaborative and Inclusive Research Cultures, hosted by Strathclyde University's Cultures of Collaborative Research programme. The event will showcase a variety of projects aiming to enhance gender equality in research and innovation.
The session on Tuesday, 25th March from 12-1 pm (online) will feature presentations from project teams that have received funding through the Wellcome-funded programme, followed by a panel discussion on gender equality challenges and approaches in research. The key projects being presented are:
Advancing Gender Equality through Collaborative and Inclusive Research Cultures: Tuesday 25th 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
Delivered By: Collaborative and Inclusive Research Cultures Project Teams