Seminar on Gender Balance within the Natural Sciences

The Gender Committee and an active group of female postdocs at the Department of Geosciences invite all interested at the department to a seminar on Gender in the Natural Sciences, and Geosciences in particular.

Tid og sted: – , Auditorium II, Helga Engs hus
Bildet kan inneholde: vann, vegetasjon, tekst, naturlige omgivelser, vannforsyning.

See the full agenda for the seminar (pdf).

The main speakers at the seminar are:

Knut Liestøl, former department head at IFI and currently leader of the BALANSE program at NRC, who will give a talk addressing gender, unconscious bias and the academic ideal of meritocracy.

Andrea Popp, Postdoc at GeoHyd/G&G will give a talk based on her paper: "A Global Survey on the Perceptions and Impacts of Gender Inequality in the Earth and Space Sciences". 

Also on the programme: Introduction by Lena M. Tallaksen, Chair of the gender comittee and "Close-out thoughts" by Head of department, Brit Lisa Skjelkvåle. 

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, it will be organized as a hybrid meeting allowing you to take part through zoom as well (link will be circulated later).

You are kindly invited to sign up by filling in a simple form (deadline: 13 October 2020): https://nettskjema.no/a/165613

Welcome to all interested!

 

Lena M Tallaksen, Andrea Popp, Emma Michie, and Anne Cathrine Modahl 

Publisert 14. okt. 2020 09:51 - Sist endret 23. okt. 2020 12:13
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Presentations:

If you are interested you can find the PPT from the seminar here:

Welcome and Introduction,
Lena M. Tallaksen

Gender equality in academia: Progress or not?, Knut Liestøl

The perceptions and impacts of gender inequality in the geosciences, Andrea Popp

See also:

Popp, A. et al. 2019. A Global Survey on the Perceptions and Impacts of Gender Inequality. Earth and Space Sciences, V 6, Issue 8, PP 1460-1468 (open source)