The 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.
Anita Melander Wikman, associate professor in physical therapy, gave a docent lecture August 29, 2014 at Luleå University of Technology.
She believed years ago that if research in the health care should make a difference, the co-producers concerned must be involved.
- We cannot do research on the basis of what we believe that patients need and want. Through collaboration with all stakeholders, patients, clients, staff, technicians and scientists, we can together examine what is possible. All stakeholders are important and no one can dictate terms.
Her long experience of a participatory approach means that she is a much sought-after researcher. Right now she is involved in a number of projects with many universities. In collaboration with project manager Lillemor Lundin Olsson, Umeå University, she is developing an app with a fall prevention exercise program for elderly. Read more http://www.ltu.se/ltu/media/Foregangare-till-regeringens-riktlinjer-1.120774?l=en
For more information, contact Professor Ylva Fälhtolmhttp://www.ltu.se/staff/y/ylfa-1.10502?l=en
Can anybody build their own smartphone apps?
Lena Palmquist, Umea University, presented her licentiate thesis August 15, 2014 at Umeå University of Technology. Her thesis is based on the work in the SATIN project, sponsored by the EU structural funds. SATIN that is coordinated by Centre for Distance-spanning Technology (CDT) is collaboration between Lulea and Umea universities as well as IT companies. The title of her thesis is Exploring self-efficacy in end-user programming - a feminist approach. Read more http://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:736685/FULLTEXT01.pdf
For more information, contact:
SATIN Project Coordinator Jan-Olov Johansson, LTU-CDT http://www.ltu.se/staff/j/joj-1.33163?l=en
SATIN Gender&Diversity Team Leader Paula Wennberg, LTU-CDT http://www.ltu.se/staff/p/paula-1.11040
– For us at our department, gender issues are especially important. We have few women attending our programmes and we have yet as hard to get women as teachers, says Jonas Ekman, Head of School of Computer Science at Luleå University of Technology .
Read more
http://www.ltu.se/centres/cdt/Genusapp-pa-TV-1.120759?l=en
Watch the news on TV online
http://www.svt.se/nyheter/regionalt/nordnytt/genusapp-ska-ge-jamstalldhet
A toolbox and a gender app for gender mainstreaming shall change norms and get more women into the field of information and communication technology. – Now, we always have gender equality on the agenda on our project meetings, says Arne Gylling, project leader at Centre for distance-spanning technology, CDT.
Read more
http://www.ltu.se/centres/cdt/Verktyg-for-okad-jamstalldhet-1.119517?l=en
Welcome to meet Lulea University of Technology (LTU) at
Gender, Work and Organization
8th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference
24th – 26th June, 2014, Keele University, UK
For more information http://www.keele.ac.uk/risocsci/journals/gwo/
The 20th Annual Conference of the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA) will take place from the 30th June till 2nd July 2014 in Tallinn, Tallinn University, Estonia. Widening participation: excellence, impact and professionalism
The Conference will focus on cross-border research collaboration, the challenges with regard to the HORIZON 2020 Programme, research management from policy to practice and on the professional development of research managers and administrators. EARMA 2014 is being hosted by Tallinn University on their campus in the centre of Tallinn.
Welcome to meet Lulea University of Technology (LTU) in the workshop:
Gender in research and administration (Monday, June 30 at 14:00-15:50
Chair: Paula Wennberg, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Speakers: Susi Poli, Bologna University, Italy
Malin Rosquist, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Johan Åkerman, Linköping University, Sweden
For more information http://earma-tallinn-2014.com/
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