The NEXT-GENDER co-creative capacity building workshop Shifting Perspectives: How Gender and Intersectionality Drive Frontier Research opens this Monday, 27 April, at Impact Hub Athens, Greece.
Over three days, researchers from across Europe will explore how sex, gender and intersectionality can strengthen the originality, methodological rigour, and explanatory power of frontier research proposals — moving well beyond the familiar “add gender and stir” approach.
What to expect
The programme unfolds across three thematic days. Monday opens with a focus on what gender and intersectionality mean for frontier research, featuring a keynote on female brain health across the lifespan and a plenary on metaphors in research proposals, followed by an afternoon co-creation workshop where participants begin integrating these perspectives directly into their own work.
Tuesday turns to methodology and research design, with a keynote on positionality and cisnormative research, a session on inclusive metaphors, and five parallel disciplinary workshops covering intersectional data science, algorithmic bias, life sciences and medicine, intersectionality as theory and practice, and metaphorical approaches.
Wednesday closes the workshop with a focus on communication and impact: participants build strategic scientific narratives, identify where gender and intersectionality live within their core research contribution, and deliver final pitches showcasing their work.
About the workshop
Shifting Perspectives is the main capacity building activity of NEXT-GENDER, a COST Innovators Grant initiative emerging from COST Action CA20137 (VOICES). The workshop brings together researchers preparing ERC and MSCA proposals across four disciplinary streams — ICT, Health & Biotechnology, Social Sciences & Humanities, and Climate, Biodiversity & Mobility — pairing them with gender studies and disciplinary experts in a co-creative format.
NEXT-GENDER is funded by the European Union through the COST Association.
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