The Female Faculty Network Twente invites you to the workshop:
‘Gender and measurement of scientific excellence: implications for your career’
on October 24, from 10.00-13.00 with a lunch afterwards
at the Drienerburght hotel
Workshop
The aim of the workshop is to bring awareness of different ways of understanding scientific excellence and its measurement, discuss its gendered nature and reflect on what this means for your next career steps. In this workshop we will discuss how scientific excellence is defined and measured. Based on the three procedural approaches to scientific excellence we will identify the key elements of scientific excellence and discuss how they translate in our academic settings and lives. Especially we will pay attention to power and gender dynamics taking place while defining and measuring scientific excellence. The workshop will provide examples of scientific excellence measurement by ERC and national funding agencies as well as university criteria used in promotion procedures.
The participants of the workshop will have time to critically reflect on their own working life situations, engage in peer leaning on strategies used to address inequalities in research evaluation and appraisal in practice.
Organization
The workshop will include individual reflection, discussion in small groups and peer-leaning among all workshop participants.
Expected outcome
Awareness of biases in scientific excellence measurement and reflection of what it means for each participant individually.
Small bio of the trainer
Liudvika Leisyte is Professor of Higher Education at the Center for Higher Education Studies, Faculty of Business and Economics at the Technical University of Dortmund in Germany. Her research focuses on academic work and organizational transformation in the context of changing institutional environment. She completed her PhD at the University of Twente CHEPS group in 2007. From November 2008 to August 2009 Liudvika was a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. In 2008, Liudvika received the Early Career Best Paper Award at the PRIME conference in Mexico City for the paper on professional autonomy of university research units. She is involved in national and European projects, has published four books, and numerous journal articles and chapters on university transformation and academic work, quality assurance of higher education and research, gender in academia and academic entrepreneurship. She is the former chair of FFNT at the UT and has been actively involved in informing policy makers and managers on transformation processes at universities towards gender equality for the past 15 years. She is reviewer of proposals for a range of national research councils, including NSF in the US as well as European Research Council (Starting grants). Further information can be found here: http://www.zhb.tu-dortmund.de/zhb/hdhf/en/home/index.html
If you want to attend the workshop please register at: ffnt@utwente.nl.
If you cannot attend the event after registration, please cancel in writing before the lunch discussion to contain the costs of the event. Thank you for your understanding.
Looking forward to seeing you!
