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March 2024

CFA WG 1 training school will take place from 8 to 11 July 2024 at Deusto University, Bilbao (Spain)

You are interested in the topic of mentoring programmes for women scientists and academics, spanning programme design, implementation, evaluation, and the lived experience of the mentees? Let’s Hear Your Voices: Unlocking knowledge, experience, and good practice in inclusive mentoring for early career women in academia and research and innovation – a multi-stakeholder summer training event will take place from 8 to 11 July 2024 at Deusto University, Bilbao (Spain) In response to the growing popularity of career [...]

February 2024

Take home messages from the VOICES 2024 Annual Conference in Tirana

This year's VOICES Annual Conference has brought together participants from many different countries in the Mediterranean University of Albania (Tirana), who have engaged in intensive debates under the theme of Gender Based Violence in Higher Education. Now that the curtain has fallen, we have interviewed Elif Kaya and Philippe Liotard, WG4 Co-leaders and organizers, and asked them on the main take home messages from these days of extraordinary exchange. 1 - What is the final assessment [...]

January 2024

Voices Annual Conference taking place in Tirana, 15-16 February 2024

This year's Annual conference is organised by the Working Group 4, “Sexual Harassment, Gender-Based Violence and Institutional Culture,” of the VOICES Project. Under the theme« Making Young Researchers' Voices Heard to Prevent Gender-based Violence in Higher Education», it will bring together students, researchers and practitioners for an intensive two-day conference hosted by the Mediterranean University of Albania, in Tirana. Check the Conference's page for updated information. All queries should be addressed to: [email protected]     [...]

Call for Papers for Special Issue of the journal Postcolonial Directions in Education

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the special issue (June 2024) of the open-access, peer-reviewed, Scopus-indexed journal Postcolonial Directions in Education. The Special Issue will focus the '(In)visibility of ‘young’ researchers in Europe: a postcolonial perspective', and will showcase select proceedings of the VOICES Conference Voicing Young Researchers for the Future of Europe, which took place between the 14 and15 February 2023, in Malta. Please find the full Call for Papers here and [...]

December 2023

Core Group members meet in Ghent

The Grant Period 3 of our COST Action is off to a great start, with - among other things - the preparation of our 2nd Annual Conference. Under the theme Making Young Researchers' Voices heard to prevent Gender Based Violence in Higher Education, it will take place in the Mediterranean University of  Tirana on 15th and 16th February 2024. The conference is organised by the Working Group 4, “Sexual Harassment, Gender-Based Violence and Institutional Culture,” of the [...]

WG3 promotes case studies that integrate gender as a research dimension

Since October that WG3’s monthly meetings have been featuring case studies that include gender as a research dimension. They have already hosted presentations by three young researchers who participated in the "Breaking the Bias" Summer School in Athens and hope that this channel will facilitate the dissemination of many other studies in progress. Devris Isler has presented his work on “Privacy Behaviors and Perceptions of LGBTQ+ Community in Turkey”, Sara Larrabure addressed the theme of [...]

Main insights from recent WG2 meetings

The recent meeting of Working Group 2 (WG2) within the VOICES project, held on November 17, 2023, marked a significant milestone in the ongoing exploration of the inclusion of early career researchers in the decision-making bodies. Led by Prof. Liudvika Leisyte and Prof.  Christine Cross, the session included a comprehensive review of the second grant period, offering insights into the group's achievements and the promising path that lies ahead. Over the course of the grant [...]

November 2023

Prof. Liudvika Leišytė, WG2 Co-leader, elected to Academia Europaea!

Professor Liudvika Leišytė, VOICES WG2 Co-Leader, has been elected as a member of the highly prestigious Academia Europaea. The Academia Europaea is a pan-European, non-governmental association of scientists and academics with the mission of promoting learning, education, and research. It has more than 5,000 members, including 85 Nobel Prize winners. Prof. Leišytė was inducted into the Academia Europaea at the annual meeting of the Academy, which took place at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Münich in October 2023. [...]

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