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. [...]
July 2023
Successful “Breaking the Bias” summer school in Athens
The 2023 summer school achieved its goal of breaking down gender bias in the research work of its participants. The summer school "Breaking the Bias", organized by Working Group 3 Gender as a Research Dimension, held in July 2023 at the Impact Hub space in Athens fulfilled its objective of promoting relationships between young researchers and mentors, receiving useful feedback to improve the work presented, and sharing concerns during those 3 days. The first day featured [...]
WG1 starts work on mapping feminist mentoring programmes for early-stage researchers
In July WG1 met in Bilbao (Spain) at the University of Deusto to work on its SLR on the precariousness of women in academia and the mapping of feminist mentoring programmes. Stay tuned, there will be interesting news soon!