GEAP's implementation:

genovate official siteThe GENOVATE Community is a platform which enables GENOVATE partners to share institutional information and case studies, and facilitates the coordination of a buddy system for bench learning.

The GENOVATE Community consist of seven GENOVATE partner institutions; the GENOVATE International Advisory Board; key strategic collaborators and stakeholders and the general public. It is a mechanism designed to facilitate meaningful knowledge exchange across the community at local, national and international levels within each of the partner institutions’ countries, across Europe and globally.

Making Diversity Interventions Count: 5th Annual International Conference (Tuesday June 16th 2015)

@ University of Bradford

Organised by the Centre for Inclusion and Diversity

With contributions from a wide range of eminent national and international speakers, this popular conference will feature the latest research and development and the synthesis and application of knowledge. The conference aims to explore the varying interventions aimed at advancing equality, with the objective of informing the development of good practice in the effective use of diversity interventions in organisations.

Conference Themes:

  • Diversity Management in the Workplace (DM)

  • Practicing Diversity (PD) 

  • Inclusive Leadership (IL)

  • Identity, Belonging and Intersectionalities (IBI)

Gender Specific presentations:

  1. Snakes and ladders - The impact of motherhood upon women's career outcomes in registered nursing in Scotland. Dr Bryan McIntosh, Associate Dean, Faculty of Health Studies, University of Bradford (DM) (Small Hall)

  2. Gender diversity in the university sector: an exploration of the gendered nature of academic leadership. Collette Fagan, Dr Nina Teasdale, Jane Ferguson, Lis Seston, Karen Hassell, Manchester School of Social Sciences / School of Pharmacy, University of Manchester (IL) (D3) 

  3. Journeying towards transforming organisational culture for gender equality in research and innovation. Professor Udy Archibong, Dr Nazira Karodia, Dr Crina Oltean-Dumbrava, Centre for Inclusion and Diversity, University of Bradford (DM) (Small Hall) 

Booking is available from the conference website. http://www.bradford.ac.uk/health/mdicac-2015/ 

We are looking forward to seeing many of you next week!

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Launch of the Mentoring Pilot Programme at UNINA

The Launch of the Mentoring Pilot Programme at UNINA was held on October 27th 2014 in Naples with the participation of the delegate of the new Rector, the Director of the Science and Technology School, Prof. Piero Salatino, and members of the Institutional Advisory Board (CII) of GENOVATE from the academic and top management staff of UNINA and stakeholders.

After a brief introduction of the Coordinator of the GENOVATE UNINA team, Dr. Ofelia Pisanti, and the welcome address by Prof. Piero Salatino, Dr. Ilenia Picardi, Project Manager of the UNINA team, provided an overview of the Mentoring project. During the session, several UNINA and stakehoder representatives had a speech: Prof. Rita Mastrullo, from the Academic Senate, Prof. Caterina Arcidiacono, Rector's Delegate, Dr. Angela Gargano, from the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (which is partner of the GENOVATE team for the organization of the Mentoring Programme), Prof. Daniela Montesarchio, from the Naples Women in Science Group (Coordinamento Napoletano Donne nella Scienza).
 

The presentations were followed by a debate, moderated by Prof. Luciano Mayol, Director of the Center for the Coordination of Special Projects and Organizational Innovation (COINOR).

World cafè with the Women in Science Group and GeCATs

On 13th October, the GENOVATE team organized a world cafè with the Women in Science Group in Naples, which is one of the stakeholder of GENOVATE@UNINA, and the representatives of the GeCATs. The aim of this meetings was to discuss on the Code of Practice which we want to present to our academic community. It was a very fruitful meeting!