Periodic Reporting for period 1 - G-VERSITY (G-VERSITY - Achieving Gender Diversity)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2020-10-01 al 2022-09-30
To achieve gender diversity, private and public employers need researcher-trained employees who can make choices based on state-of-the-art theories, principles, and up-to-date methods to bring about more gender-equal policies and programmes of employment in Europe. The overarching objective of the European Training Network G-VERSITY is to provide high-level training in the emerging field of interdisciplinary gender diversity research to a new generation of researchers.
G-VERSITY equips the early stage researchers (ESRs) with the skills necessary for thriving careers in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, so that they are better qualified to develop and implement interventions to achieve a more balanced representation of women and men as well as of SGM groups in professions and positions in which these groups historically have been underrepresented. G-VERSITY established a unique combination of hands-on research training, non-academic secondments and courses, and workshops on scientific and transferable skills facilitated by the academic-non-academic composition of the consortium.
The ESRs started successfully with their individual research projects. The set-up of their research projects included literature reviews on each of the different topics, the identification of research gaps in the literature, the further development of their research questions to fill those gaps, and the designing of studies to answer their research questions. Several collaborations between the PhD students have already been established. The ESRs participated actively in the weekly training program—the Journal Club, which is part of the G-VERSITY E-learning tool — through which they became familiar with the key literature, theories, and methodologies of gender diversity through weekly presentations and workshops given by the academic supervisors. Thereby ESRs were able to build a solid interdisciplinary and intersectional foundation for their projects. G-VERSTY’s training events provided them with complementary skills training, namely ethical issues, interdisciplinary collaboration, Open Science, Intellectual Property Rights, Mitigating Gender Bias, publication strategies, research data management, and professional media communication to non-academic audiences.