Seminar Series on Equal Opportunities

Gender aspects in academic leadership – Examples from the Department of Information Technology

by Prof. Ginevra Castellano (Uppsala universitet), Prof. Lina von Sydow (Uppsala universitet)

Europe/Stockholm
101121 (Ångströmlaboratoriet)

101121

Ångströmlaboratoriet

Description
Ginevra Castellano is a Professor in Intelligent Interactive Systems at the Department of Information Technology, where she leads the Uppsala Social Robotics Lab, and acts as equal opportunities officer.
Castellano will present examples of equal opportunities work at the IT Department, with a focus on gender aspects in academic leadership. Their work spans several areas of relevance to gender mainstreaming, including supporting equal opportunities and gender equality training, producing gender statistics to monitor the distribution of research resources, and gender mainstreaming work to increase women representation in academia.
Organised by

Petra Jönsson and Karin Schönning