Prelims

Half Title Page

Overcoming the Challenge of Structural Change in Research Organisations

Title Page

Overcoming the Challenge of Structural Change in Research Organisations – A Reflexive Approach to Gender Equality

EDITED BY

ANGELA WROBLEWSKI

Institute for Advanced Studies, Austria

AND

RACHEL PALMÉN

Notus, Spain

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

Copyright Page

Emerald Publishing Limited

Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, UK

First edition 2022

Editorial matter and selection © 2022, Angela Wroblewski and Rachel Palmén.

Individual chapters © 2022 The Authors.

Published by Emerald Publishing Limited.

This work is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this book (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode 26th April 2021, signed by Angela Wroblewski and Rachel Palmén

Open Access. The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.

Reprints and permissions service

Contact: permissions@emeraldinsight.com

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without either the prior written permission of the publisher or a licence permitting restricted copying issued in the UK by The Copyright Licensing Agency and in the USA by The Copyright Clearance Center. Any opinions expressed in the chapters are those of the authors. Whilst Emerald makes every effort to ensure the quality and accuracy of its content, Emerald makes no representation implied or otherwise, as to the chapters’ suitability and application and disclaims any warranties, express or implied, to their use.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN: 978-1-80262-122-8 (Print)

ISBN: 978-1-80262-119-8 (Online)

ISBN: 978-1-80262-121-1 (Epub)

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

About the Editors

Angela Wroblewski has been a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna since 1999. She is a trained sociologist and has a background in the field of gender studies in academia, including evaluations of equality policies and women-only programmes. Since 1999, she has been involved in research and evaluation projects with a focus on equality policies and diversity at universities and research institutions and has also conducted research projects focusing on students and academics with disabilities. She coordinated the H2020 project TARGET and is involved in GENDERACTION where she is responsible for the monitoring of the implementation of ERA Roadmap Priority 4 in Member States. She is active in international networks focusing on gender equality in higher education such as the Women in Higher Education Management Network.

Rachel Palmén is a social researcher with more than 12 years of professional research experience in the context of gender equality in research and innovation (R&I). She is currently a Senior Researcher at NOTUS and at the Open University in Catalonia where she forms part of the Gender and ICT research programme. She has worked on various European Commission funded projects in the field of gender and science, including the GenPORT community-sourced internet portal for gender and science resources and the EFFORTI project, which developed an evaluation framework for gender equality interventions in R&I. She also worked on the ACT-on-Gender project, which supported eight communities of practice for gender equality in R&I in Europe and Latin America. She is currently working on the TARGET project supporting the implementation of gender equality plans. Her doctorate examined community engagement processes and she is a specialist in participatory processes and community development.

About the Contributors

Dia Anagnostou is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Public Administration at Panteion University of Social Sciences and a Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation of European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens. She completed her PhD in the Department of Government at Cornell University in 1999 and has since specialised in comparative politics, human rights and European governance. Her research has explored how international law, courts and supranational institutions impact domestic politics and rights protection, with a focus on gender equality, minorities, migrants and vulnerable groups.

Margalith Benech-Kopelianskis is an Assistant Director General of services at the École Centrale Marseille. Since 2019, she has worked as a consultant in data protection compliance. From 2013 to 2019, she served as a legal auditor at the French data protection authority (Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés) and worked as a lawyer from 2011 to 2013. She is responsible for the École Centrale Marseille’s project on the fight against discrimination and sexual violence.

Mina Bettachy is a Senior Researcher in Physics and Material Science at Hassan II – University of Casablanca (UH2C), President of the Association of Women in Science of Morocco, Founding Member of the Moroccan Association of Statistical Physics and Founding Member and Secretary General of the Moroccan Association of Polymer Physics and Soft Matter since 2000. She is actively engaged in gender issues. She participated in women’s literacy programmes in the 1980s, initiated the creation of women’s associations to fight against illiteracy and participated in various committees for changing women’s status in the family. She is an active member of several national and international networks, including the National Network for Integration of Women, Women’s Solidarity Network; TWOS, COACh, Gender STE COST Network, Canary-Africa inter-university cooperation network on equality policies (CIMPI) and is the Coordinator of Women in Physics Group in Morocco within ICWIP. She was a member of the SHEMERA project and Coordinator of the TARGET project at UH2C.

Olivier Boiron is the RMEI Executive Director since 2012. Since 2013, he has been a Professor at École Centrale Marseille in Fluid Mechanics, in January 2014 he became Holder of the UNESCO Chair 651 (Innovation for sustainable development) and is the Dean of International Affairs at the École Centrale Marseille. As head of the RMEI, he leads a large number of activities around sustainable development and in particular air pollution.

Maria Caprile is a Senior Researcher and Founder Member of NOTUS. She is a sociologist specialised in work, gender and other social inequality axes. She was Co-director of the study ‘Women in Industrial Research (WIR)’ commissioned by the European Commission (2002–2003) and has since participated in several EU-funded research projects on gender in research and innovation, including the coordination of the study ‘Meta-analysis of gender and science research (2008–2010) and the project ‘SHEMERA’ (2011–2014). She participated in GenPORT (2013–2017), which built a community-sourced internet portal for gender and science resources and ACT (2018–2021), which supported eight communities of practice for gender equality in research and innovation in Europe and Latin America. She worked on the TARGET project supporting the implementation of gender equality plans. She is currently involved in the SMILE project, which aims to achieve inclusive higher education by tackling inequalities related to class, migrant background and gender.

Monica Cardarilli holds a PhD from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering where since 2016 she has been the Italian representative of GAMe board (Young Ambassadors of the Mediterranean) under the RMEI Network of Mediterranean Engineering Schools. Her activity across the young engineers’ network has supported capacity building and exchanges among students from around the Mediterranean through joint initiatives and multi-disciplinary events. Since 2019 she has been a Project Officer at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre where she works with academia, private authorities and scientific organisations to enhance resilience of critical infrastructures and supply systems across Europe. She supports project initiatives and partnerships, contributing to developing recommendation guidelines on emergency management, safety and security aspects, emerging threats and domino effects, including climate change impacts.

Barbara De Micheli is a Coordinator of the Social Justice Area and Senior Researcher at the Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini; she holds a PhD in Labour, Development and Innovation and since 2001 she has been coordinating multiannual and transnational projects focusing on social policies, diversity and inclusion, gender budgeting and gender mainstreaming. In 2012, she designed and has since then coordinated the Fondazione’s Master in ‘Gender Equality and Diversity Management’. She joined the board of the ingenere.it web magazine in 2010 and contributes articles on gender equality and organisational change. She has been working on the definition and implementation of Gender Equality Plans in the Genis Lab project, has worked on the definition of the gender audit tool in the TARGET project and has supported four of the project’s organisations in defining and implementing their gender equality plans.

Carole Deumié is a Professor of Physics at École Centrale Marseille, Researcher in Biomedical Imaging at Institut Fresnel-France and has been the Director of École Centrale de Marseille since 2019. She was the Dean of Studies and Training at École Centrale Marseille for more than 10 years and introduced the ‘competency approach’ in all programmes and in the design of the training curriculum. She was a member of the French Engineering Education Assessment Board (Cti) from 2008 to 2016.

Daša Duhaček was a Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade and a Director of the University’s Center for Gender & Politics, Political Science. She has a BA in Philosophy from the University of Belgrade, an MA in Women’s Studies and a PhD in Political Science (both from Rutgers University, USA). She has taught at universities in the USA as well as at the University of Sarajevo, the Central European University, Budapest, the Inter University Center, Dubrovnik (as the Co-director of the course on Feminist Critical Analysis), and others. She is the author of many texts on gender issues as well as of studies on feminist theory and political theory with a focus on H. Arendt. She has directed numerous projects relating to gender issues and has organised and co-organised several gender-related international conferences.

Massimo Guarascio has been a former Full Professor and a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ since 2015, where he has worked as Full Professor since 1996. He has also served as Chairman of the Safety and Civil Protection Engineering degree course since 1999 and has extensive teaching experience across Europe and beyond. Furthermore, he is a Former Member and Vice-president of RMEI (Network of Mediterranean Engineering Schools). Currently, he supports GAMe (Young Ambassadors of the Mediterranean) as Coordinator, facilitating networking activities and student initiatives.

Angelina Kussy is a trained economic anthropologist specialised in gender, class and other factors of inequality, with a background in public policy, work, care and social reproduction. She is a PhD candidate at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and is currently completing her thesis on domestic workers and the care crises. As Junior Researcher at NOTUS, she has worked on the TARGET project and the women’s leadership pillar of the SMILE project, which aims to achieve inclusive higher education. As a member of the Research Group in Social Anthropology at the Rovira i Virgili University, she has been involved in research projects on gender justice: GENDERCARE: Men’s commitment to long-term care; CUMADE: Gender impact on caregivers of the elderly and dependents in times of COVID-19 and CAREMODEL: The model of long-term care in transition.

Andrea Leitner is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna and holds a PhD from the University of Vienna. Her research interests are in inequality and equality policies in the areas gender, education and employment. She has coordinated several evaluation projects on gender equality (e.g. European Social Funds) and conducted research on analysing gender, ethnic and social inequality in different fields (e.g. private enterprises, army, schools and universities).

Milica Mirazić holds an MA in Theory of Culture and Gender Studies from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade where she has also been a Course Demonstrator for the Gender Studies course. In the previous period, she has been working as the Executive Director of the first local feminist foundation Reconstruction Women’s Fund. For eight years before that, she has been working as the Programme Officer at the Swedish foundation ‘Kvinna till Kvinna’ supporting women in conflict and post-conflict areas, in charge of the implementation of Sida’s (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) programme in Serbia. She was a member of the Administrative Board of the European Women’s Lobby and served as the Coordinator of the Serbian member organisation. She has published several articles on the topic of feminist psychoanalytical theory and its application in art, and particularly in film theory and criticism.

Léna Raviol is a student in her first year of studies at an engineering school specialised in agronomy in Agrosup Dijon, after completing two years of studies in Sciences and Humanities at Aix-Marseille University.

Alina Tăriceanu is a Lecturer at the University of Bucharest, Department of Jewish Studies, and an Associate Professor on the Religious Studies Master degree programme. She holds a Master’s in politics, gender and minorities from the National School of Political Sciences and Administrative Studies and a PhD in political science and gender studies. She supported TARGET implementation at ARCIS as an external gender expert.

Aigli Tsirogianni has an MA in Social Entrepreneurship from Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is an experienced manager and consultant, specialising in social mobility and inclusion programmes. She is passionate about innovation, inclusion and impact growth with diverse experience in designing, scaling and facilitating programmes.

Giovanna Vingelli holds a PhD from the University of Calabria (2004). She is a Senior Researcher and Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Calabria (Italy) where she is Rector’s Delegate for Equal opportunities and Director of the Centre of Women’s Studies. Her research interests lie in the fields of the analysis, development and design of gender equality policies (with a focus on gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting and education) and social movements (with a focus on feminist and anti-feminist movements).

Anastasia Zabaniotou is a Chemical Engineer with a PhD from École Centrale de Paris and is a Full Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department, Engineering School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She has worked for the European Commission, DG Research and Innovation, and continues to work for the European Commission as an Expert and Evaluator. She is the Vice-president Elect of the Network of Mediterranean Engineering Schools (RMEI) with responsibility for Sustainable Development, coordinated by École Centrale de Marseille, and chairs Bioenergy at the International Renewable Energy Network. She is also a Founding Member of the Chinese Bioenergy and Environment Network. Since 2021, she has been a member of the Greek Government’s Center for Women’s Innovation (GIL4W). In 2020, she became a Founding Member of the Gender Equality and Sustainable Development committee of the School of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and has been a member of the university’s Gender Equality Committee since 2019. She has been Leader of the Gender Equality Group at the Mediterranean Engineering Schools Network (RMEI) since 2017.

Acknowledgements

As editors we would like to thank the members of the TARGET consortium for their commitment to the project and willingness to engage in a reflective process. We also would like to thank the members of the TARGET advisory board for their constant support and their insightful and constructive feedback.

The TARGET project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 741672. The opinions expressed in this document reflect only the author’s view and in no way reflect the European Commission’s opinions. The European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.