Knowledge, Institutions and Gender - an East-West Comparative Study (knowing)

Welcome to the website of the KNOWING project!

Mission Statement:

The research project is funded by the European Commission and will run for three years between 2006-2008, and is carried out by five national teams. The research aims to:

- examine the production of knowledge contexts and cultures, including the role of gender, from an “East-West” perspective,
- identify structural and institutionalised practices and procedures, including standards of excellence, that hinder and/or promote the equal participation of women in science,
- encourage the establishment of feminist science studies in the partner countries, especially in the new EU member states
- influence policy on higher education and research and development at the national and EU levels in order to promote gender equality and increase the engagement of young people in science

News & Events

NEW PUBLICATION “Uncertain Ground. Discursive Terrain of Research and Development Policies and Knowledge Production Practices in the Czech Republic”

Final publication Knowing and Living in Academic Research edited by Ulrike Felt published online

In the Project Materials section of the website you can find the final publication from the KNOWING project, Knowing and Living in Academic Research: Convergence and Heterogeneity in Research Cultures in the European Context. The publication can be downloaded as a PDF.

KNOWING conference included in Socio-economic Sciences & Humanities and Science in Society in 2008 Highlights of the Year

The KNOWING conference is among the highlights of the year 2008 in the field of Science in Society.

download:
chorist-sp0.d26-v1.1.pdf

THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE, CULTURE AND CHANGE IN ORGANISATIONS

The primary interest of the Management Conference is knowledge-based
social and economic change. Driven by globalisation and advances in
information and communications technologies, this change has been
characterised in terms of emerging information/knowledge societies and a
global knowledge-based economy.

Call for papers: The politics of knowing: research, institutions and gender in the making

Proposed date: 27-28 November 2008
Venue: Prague, Czech Republic

Deadline for submission of papers: 30 April 2008
Notification of submitters: 30 June 2008
Early registration: 15 July 2008
Deadline for papers for conference: 30 September 2008

Call for papers: The politics of knowing: research, institutions and gender in the making

Proposed date: 27-28 November 2008
Venue: Prague, Czech Republic

Deadline for submission of papers: 30 April 2008
Notification of submitters: 30 June 2008
Early registration: 15 July 2008
Deadline for papers for conference: 30 September 2008

UNESCO Report on Science, Technology and Gender

In November 2007, UNESCO released “Science, Technology and Gender: an International Report”, which has been prepared with the active partnership of specialists in areas relating to science, technology and gender from numerous institutions worldwide.
For further information:
http://www.unesco.org/science/psd/focus/focus07/gender_rep.shtml

Women's stories of strategies for survival and success

Women are lost from the scientific community in increasing numbers the further up the hierachy we look. The reasons why - bias in evaluation and hiring procedures, difficulty in balancing family care and the demands of a fast-pace career, lack of high profile female mentors, have all been documented. And now someone has given a voice to women scientists who have negotiated these issues. Dr Ruth Graham of Imperial Collage, London has interviewed over 50 women at different career stages from all over Europe and has heard both saddening and inspiring stories of struggle and success. Click this link to read more...
http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.simpledocument&N_RCN=27296

Training workshop in gender in biomedical and health related research

Scientific excellence and ‘sexy’ research
Workshop on gender in biomedical and health related research. Prague, February 26th, 2007
Target audience: life sciences researcher form Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe at the early stage in their careers. Travel and accomodation costs paid by the organisers. No prior experience of gender issues in research required.
Please see more information at http://www.cec-wys.org/html/

Joint European Master's Degree in Women's and Gender Studies

The deadline for submitting applications for "Joint European Master's Degree in Women's and Gender Studies" (GEMMA) has been extended to January 31, 2007. For more information please follow this link http://www.gender.uni.lodz.pl/enver/gemma_en.html

Obligatory research results publishing

The European Research Advisory Board has recommended that all resesarch funded under Framework Programme 7 of the European Commission should have publically available research results within six months of completing the project. source: Cordis http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.simpledocument&N_RCN=26924

Office queen bees hold back women’s careers - new research provides insight into women's prejudice against women in the worksplace.

New research provides insight into women's prejudice against women in the worksplace.

Quality in Gender+ Equality Policies

Quality in Gender+Equality Policies(QUING)is a new project funded by the European Commission for 54 months which seeks, through examining exlusion to to provide the knowledge for inclusive gender and equality policies.
read more: http://www.quing.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=34

FEMCIT Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Impact of the Contemporary Women's Movement

Norwegian gender researchers have received 3.2 million Euro for a 4 year comparative study between Norway, the UK and a third country to examine how the modern women's movement has contributed, challenged and altered how women and men participate in society. Read more: http://www.norway-caribbean.org/policy/gender/researcheng.htm

Gendergraduates - Marie Curie Fellowships for Early Stage Training in Gender and Women's Studies

Please follow the link below for information about fellowships in universities around Europe. Deadline for applications 1 February 2007.
http://www.gendergraduates.org/

Peer review conference 2005: Peer review system ‘tyrannical’ according to John O’Reilly chief executive of the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

The conference contributors concluded that the peer review system is victim of "bias, conservatism and politics" and suggested ways to improve the system. Suggested good practice examples for Europe were suggested, including US National Science Foundation and Quality Assurance Netherlands Universities. source: Europa

http://ec.europa.eu/research/headlines/news/article_06_11_16_en.html

European Study of Gender Aspects of Inventions - Statistical survey and analysis of gender impact on inventions

"The project will deliver the missing knowledge base concerning the participation of women in inventive activities. The comparison of the different EU Member States will reveal efficient tools and political strategies to increase the contribution of women in invention and patent creation." source: Cordis. For more information please follow this link http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.simpledocument&PJ_RCN=8824710

Women on Biotechnology Scientific and feminist approaches

"The project Wonbit is aimed at organising a Conference on women in biotechnology, in order to produce specific recommendations for improving the situation of women working in the field, and for gaining more knowledge of biotechnology impact on life and environment that could facilitate women to suggest new rules and laws on these topics." source: Cordis
To read more, please follow this link: http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.simpledocument&PJ_RCN=8824716

call for papers -Women, Gender and the Cultural

Conference of the International Federation for Research
in Women’s History, 8-12 August 2007, Sofia, Bulgaria

download:
call_for_papers.sofia2007.doc

Groupe d'études constructivistes

The GECo is an organisation dedicated to activities in the field of philosophical approach to the construction of knowledge. Please click on the link to access their homepage (French only)
http://dev.ulb.ac.be/geco/

"Melancholic States" International Conference

The conference is organized by the INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S STUDIES, LANCASTER UNIVERSITY, 27-29 SEPTEMBER 2007. Please see attached document for more details.

download:
conference_announcement.rtf

New book - Women’s Memory: The Experience of Self-shaping in Biographical Interviews

Edited by Zuzana Kiczková, member of the KNOWING Slovak research team. Download the document to read an introduction and contents page and publication details.

download:
women__s_memory.doc

Gender & Ethnic Minority Issues in Science, Engineering and Technology

Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 23 November 2006. More information at
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/seru/conference2006.htm

download:
gem-set_poster.pdf

Excellence in Life Science Area: adding the gender dimension

Karolinska Institute 5-6th October 2006
The conferencere aims to reframe the discourse on scientific excellence. Evaluation systems used in a life scientist's career chain will be discussed from a gender perspective. For more information, please see the conference website.

Information-Based Decision-Making in the Medical Context

Workshop September 15th 2006 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
University of Vienna

6th European Gender Research Conference

University of Łódź, Poland 31 August – 3 September 2006
The conference is organized by the Association of Institutions for Feminist Education and Research in Europe.
Gender and Citizenship in a Multicultural Context

conference on gender equality in higher education

The 5th conference on gender equality in higher education will take place in Berlin, August 28-31, 2007. The call for papers deadline is August 31st 2006. Please visit http://www2.hu-berlin.de/eq-berlin2007/ for more information.

Consultation on scientific publication model

The European Commission invites consultation with all interested parties on developing a model for the publication of scientific publication. The consultation document is available for download at http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/pdf/pr_scientific_publication_study_en.pdf

Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science Studies

Conference Call: Knowledge that Matters
February 8-10, 2007 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
Deadline for call for papers is September 15 2006. Please see http://www.asu.edu/clas/womens_studies/pages/2007femmss2call.pdf for more information.