Gender and Science Blog
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 13:37
Take advantage of extended early bird rate. Extended until 14 April. The Call for Abstracts deadline has also been extended. Join us at the Gender Summit 4 EU to explore Gender in Horizon 2020 with leaders in research, policy and industry from across the world. The event will examine Gender as a cross cutting issue in Horizon 2020. This focus is reflected by representations from senior staff in three European Commission Directorate-Generals: the Director-General of the Joint Research...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 13:28
The IOP's Women in Physics Group announce the 2014 call for nominations to the Shell and Institute of Physics Very Early Career Woman Physicist of the Year.This is the 8th year of the award, which has a ?1000 prize. Applications are invited from women at the start of their careers in physics who have made a substantial contribution to the subject and have undertaken activities to support and encourage others in the field. The prize is awarded annually to a woman who is within five years of...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 12:37
Caring for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes, Why Gender MattersCommentry by Chloe E. Bird (@ChloeBirdPhD), Senior Social Scientist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate Schoolhttp://www.rand.org/blog/2014/02/caring-for-cardiovascular-disease-and-diabetes-why.html
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 12:36
Comentry by Chloe E. Bird (@ChloeBirdPhD), Senior Social Scientist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate Schoolhttp://www.rand.org/blog/2014/03/assessing-and-addressing-womens-health-and-health-care.html
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 15:56
We are looking for a talented Drupal developer to support GenPORT. The part-time position will be for 28 months starting in April 2014. The selected candiate will work at the UOC in Barcelona, Spain. Requirements include knowledge in the standard web development technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP), Drupal module development, and DSPACE repositories among others. The detailed job description can be found here. Any questions, please contact us.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 11:29
We are looking for an imaginative and enthusiastic student to undertake a PhD study into the impact of social class, gender and ethnicity on young people’s engagement with science.http://www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/funding/database/index.php?action=view&id=558
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - 13:17
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Monday, March 10, 2014 - 21:54
The FP7 Project GENOVATE Convention took place on the 5th of March 2014 at the Trnava University in Slovakia. The project can be seen as a “sister” project of GenPORT. Its objective is to ensure equal opportunities for women and men by encouraging a more gender-competent management in research, innovation and scientific decision-making bodies, with a particular focus on universities. The Slovak GenPORT team participated at the convention in order to connect with the GENOVATE project...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 15:38
The opening talk at the inaugural annual Merton Equality Conversation, given by Professor Dame Athene Donald FRS at the TS Eliot Theatre, Merton College, Oxford, on Thursday 20 February 2014.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 12:33
Physicians have long known that oxygen deprivation to the brain around the time of birth causes worse damage in boys than girls. Now a study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center conducted in mice reveals one possible reason behind this gender disparity and points to gender-specific mechanisms of brain repair following such injury.“Our observations reveal intriguing differences in the way male and female brains respond to injury following oxygen...
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