Addressing gender-based violence in academia

When: March 10, 2025

Where: Virtual, United Kingdom

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On the occasion of International Women's Day and Month, Women in Cognitive Science-Europe and Royal Holloway University of London are hosting the online seminar "Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Academia" on Monday, 10th March 2025 (1pm GMT / 2pm CET).

We are honored to welcome as our guest speaker Professor Anne Laure Humbert from the University of Gothenburg, expert in gender equality metrics and structural change in academia, who will particularly draw on her work in the uniSAFE and genderSAFE EU-funded projects. We aim to raise awareness and drive action on gender-based violence by exploring its various forms, the obstacles to reporting and addressing it, and effective strategies for prevention.

This is a must-attend event for academics worldwide, at all career stages, who are dedicated to fostering safer and more equitable academic environments.

Are you committed to eradicating gender-based violence? Do you wonder if it's possible to create gender-safe academic environments? Are you curious about how to cultivate inclusive atmospheres in science? Join us online on March 10th and seize this opportunity to be part of a crucial conversation.

About our invited speaker:
Professor Anne Laure Humbert, PhD, is a researcher at the University of Gothenburg. Anne is very experienced in gender equality research at national, EU and international level, policy analysis and assessment as well as gender statistics. She specialises in applying quantitative methods to comparative social and economic analysis, particularly in relation to work and organisations, entrepreneurship, and work-life balance. Anne is a regular public speaker on gender equality and intersectionality, and she enjoys the opportunity to make connections between theory, policy and practice.

Over the years, she has built a significant body of work around the development of gender-related composite indicators. This includes work on the development of the Gender Equality Index for the European Institute for Gender Equality, the Gender Diversity Index for research teams under the Horizon 2020 funded project GEDII, and the technical proposal for the Twin Indices on women's empowerement and gender equality for UNDP and UN Women. Anne has recently worked with the World Bank on the development of a Gender and Mobility Index and the European Commission on the production of the She Figures Index (published on February 11, 2025) as the EU-metric on Gender Equality in Research and Innovation. She is now developing a local level Gender Equality Index in the UK.

Anne also has a significant track record of working on gender structural change in organisations, with recent Horizon 2020 projects looking at implementing gender equality plans in universities across Europe (GEARING-Roles); assessing the feasibility of an award/certification system for gender equality in Europe (CASPER); and measuring and addressing gender-based violence in higher education in Europe (UniSAFE, GenderSAFE).

Her recent methodological work has focused on the applications of intersectional multilevel modelling (MAIHDA: Multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy) to various aspects of social and economic outcomes of inequalities, and she is currently writing a book on the topic based on her experience of training other researchers on how to use this new approach to intersectional quantitative analysis.

Participants will receive an email with a link to join the meeting 1 day before the event. Any other questions or issues, please contact wics.europe@gmail.com

Co-organised by Nura Sidarus (chair) and María Jesús Maraver (facilitator; Mind, Brain, and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC), University of Granada, Spain).

Conceived by Dr Nura Sidarus and Women in Cognitive Science - Europe (WiCS-E), with support of the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL.