Mgr. Marcela Linková, Ph.D.

Marcela Linková PhD is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences where she directs the Centre for Gender and Science. She has a doctorate in sociology from Charles University in Prague. Her research focuses on sociology of gendered organizations, research careers, governance of research and research assessment from a gender perspective. Marcela also examines the material-discursive practices through which gender equality policies and initiatives are adopted and implemented at the European and Czech country levels. She is the chair of the ERAC Standing Working Group on Gender in Research and Innovation. She is active in developing policy solutions for gender equality in research at the Czech and EU levels. Marcela has been involved in several EU funded projects; most recently, she is the coordinator of Horizon 2020 GENDERACTION project and participates in GE Academy and Gender-SMART. She has served on expert and advisory bodies of the European Commission and in the Czech Republic. In 2017 she co-edited Gender and Neoliberalism in Czech Academia and together with Mary Frank Fox and Kjersten Bunker Whittington contributed to the 4th edition of the Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. She is an alumna of the International Visitor Leadership Programme “Women in STEM”.