August 2022
Call for submissions for a joint international research project on gender equity
JOINT INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECT IN THE FIELD OF GENDER EQUITY The Gender Equity Unit and the Gender Law Forum at the University of Haifa and Université Lille invite submissions for a joint international research project on gender equity.The project aims to provide complementary perspectives on gender equity. It will consist of two international meetings and result in international publications. This two-part international research project will comprise 2 international meetings with complementary gender equity foci: the [...]
July 2022
Successful summer school on intersectionality in Krakow
The Intersectionality, Research, and Action International Summer School (IRAISS) was held on the 12-15 of July 2022 in Krakow, Poland, at the Jagiellonian University. More than 40 people participated for a week in Krakow in discussions and reflections on intersectionality in research. The Welcome and Opening Session was in charge of Beata Kowalska (Ombudswoman Jagiellonian University), Anne-Sophie Godfroy (VOICES Chair), Victoria Showunmi (IRAISS leader), and Marta Warat (coordinator university host). During the IRAISS, they had [...]
The first Voices summer school will be held in Krakow (Poland)
Everything is ready for the start of the first VOICES training school. The Intersectionality, Research, and Action International Summer School (IRAISS) will be held on the 12-15 of July 2022 in Krakow, Poland, at the Jagiellonian University. IRAISS is organized within the Working Group 5 Intersectionality, led by Victoria Showunmi and Jennifer Dahmen-Adkins, and with the support of the organizing team led by Marta Warat. The IRAISS is designed as a focused and innovative opportunity [...]
June 2022
Working Group 6 meeting in Vilnius
On June 9, 2022, a Management Committee meeting, and parallel meetings of all working groups in hybrid format took place in Vilnius, including a meeting of the working group 6 “Monitoring & evaluation” chaired by leader Maria Brown. In the meeting the WG6 discussed what has already been done in the framework of the WG6 on the practical monitoring and evaluation of knowledge on gender equality, and what still needs to be done to conduct [...]
WG3 held its second virtual meeting
WG3, led by Clemens Striebing and Anita Thaler, held its second virtual meeting on June 22. Anita Thaler reported back from Vilnius Annual Meeting for members who didn’t have the chance to attend the in-person meeting, underscoring the need to bring clarity to the crucial goal of WG3: to integrate gender in knowledge production, both in research and in teaching. To that end, we’ve inaugurated a Case Study Discussion Series which will allow members from [...]
Successful first annual VOICES meeting
The 1st Annual Meeting in Vilnius has ended successfully. On June 8, 9 and 10 we met in Vilnius (Lithuania) members of the Management Committee, Workings groups and Core Group. During the 3 days of the meeting we were able to meet face to face, work and discuss together about gender inequalities among young researchers. It was the first time that an MC meeting was held in mixed modality, with people both in person and [...]
1st Annual Meeting will be held in Lithuania
The Centre of Physical Sciences and Technology in Vilnius (Lithuania) will host the Anual Meeting of the Working Groups, Management Committee and Core Group on 8, 9 and 10 June. It is the first annual VOICES meeting where, for the first time, members of the committee, working groups and core group will meet face to face. All plenary sessions and the main parallel sessions will be available online, as the meeting will take place in [...]
May 2022
“I was encouraged to participate in VOICES by the possibility of changing the existing working conditions for ECRs”, Dalia Satkovskiene, Grant Awarding Coordinator.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dalia Satkovskiene is a physicist and an affiliated (distinguished) scientist at Vilnius University. She graduated from Moscow M. Lomonosov State University as elementary particle physicist. Later she changed the field of research to the Quantum Theory of molecules. She is an author of more than 130 publications in scientific journals and 4 textbooks in theoretical physics. Among other professional awards she has the American Physical Society international Marshak award (2008). D. Šatkovskienė [...]