April 2024
New Publication by Fatma Fulya Tepe (WG3) on “Banal misogynism in Turkish media at the beginning of the multi-party era”
Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, and member of WG3, published a new article titled “Banal misogynism in Turkish media at the beginning of the multi-party era: the case of Boşboğaz” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. This study aims to analyse the cover cartoons of the Boşboğaz [Bigmouth] magazine to reveal how misogynist attitudes were reproduced in Turkish media representations of women at the beginning of the multi-party period. The [...]
Anita Thaler gives keynote on “What you always wanted to know about sex + gender in research”
Anita Thaler (WG3) gave a lecture on March 7 at the University for Continuing Education Krems, on the occasion of International Women's Day 2024, on how gender gaps in science affect us all. The lecture has addressed stumbling blocks in research, from so-called I-methodology and hallway testing to gender stereotypes and so-called unconscious biases. But how can research avoid these pitfalls and contribute to closing gender gaps? Among other things, Thaler presented the PROTEA project, which [...]
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 [...]