Equal Futures is a three-day conference on intersectional gender equality in academia and its context. The events are open to everyone with an interest in building future collaboration on gender equality in the Arctic.
Place:
Time: CET (UCT+1)
Zoom: (Password: ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌFutures)
Padlet:
Organized by the ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ project
11.00- 11.10: Welcome address, Kjersti Fjørtoft
11.10 -11.40: Democratic equality in academia: Kjersti Fjørtoft
11.40 -12.20: Lunch
12.20 -12.50: Women in the history of philosophy – lack of canonizing. Exemplified by Sophie Charlotte of Prussia: Fredrik Nilsen
13.00 – 13.30: Affirmative Action and DEI work in Academia: Melina Duarte; Invited commentators: Gabriel Goldmeier and Dominik Jackson-Cole, SFHEA
13.40- 14.10: Transgender student and staff: Mathea Sagdahl
14.20- 14. 50: Epistemic injustice: Kerstin Reibold (zoom)
15.00 – 16.00: Guest lecture: What Comes after decolonial Critique?: Fillipe Campello, Guest researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bergen
Organised by the ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ project ‘Prestige. Gender Equality in Research Leadership’
9h00-9h15: Morning coffee
9h15-9h30: Opening addresses
Hege K. Andreassen, Associate Professor at the Center for Care Research at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ and former Head of the Center for Women’s and Gender Research at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ
Kenneth Ruud, Project leader. Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ and Director General, Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (FFI) and former Vice-chancellor for Research at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ.
9h30-9h45: The Prestige-project from 2018-2019: The start
Sigfrid Kjeldaas, Researcher at Norce and at the Department for Language and Culture at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ, and former project coordinator.
9h45-10h: The Prestige-project from 2020-to date: Binding findings together
Melina Duarte, Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, researcher at the Center for Women´s and Gender Research at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ and project coordinator
10h-10h15: Coffee Break
WP leader: Katrin Losleben
10h15-10h30: Gender Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academia: Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Transformation, book edited by Melina Duarte, Kjersti Fjørtoft, and Katrin Losleben
Katrin Losleben, Professor at the Center for Women’s and Gender Research, ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ
WP leader: Adrianna Kochanska
10h30-10h45: Gender Distribution Beyond Course Measurements: Balancing gender distribution in professor positions at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ from 2020 onwards, report by Melina Duarte, Adrianna Kochanska, and Torill Nustad. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7557/sr.2020.8
Viktoria Angelsnes, Former research assistant at the Prestige-project
10h45-11h: Balancinator for Organizations: an open-access resource for monitoring gender balance, software by Lilli Mittner & Matthias Mittner
Lilli Mittner, Senior researcher at the Center for Women´s and Gender Research, ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ
Matthias Mittner, Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ
11h-11h15: Gender Distribution in Research Group Leadership at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ: from basic structure to leadership roles, report by Melina Duarte, Adrianna Kochanska, and Malin Rönnblom
Adrianna Kochanska, Research assistant at the BRIDGE research group, ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ
11h15-11h30: Coffee Break
11h30-11h45: Mapping Experiences of Gender-Based Discrimination at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ, report by Lise Gulli Brokjøb and Sarah Martiny
Lise Gulli Brokjøb, Student-researcher at the Department of Psychology, ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ
Sarah Martiny, Professor at the Department of Psychology, ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ
11h45-12h00: Why researchers at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ apply for external funding and why they don’t? Gender Perspectives in Motivation, Capabilities, and Institutional Support, preliminary findings from a study by Adrianna Kochanska, Viktoria Angelsnes, Dina Abdel-Fattah and Lise Gulli Brokjøb, assisted by Ida Johannessen
Lise Gulli Brokjøb, Student-researcher at the Department of Psychology, ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ
Dina Abdel-Fattah, Associate Professor at the Department of Technology and Safety
12h00-13h00: Lunch (served outside the auditorium)  
WP leader: Lilli Mittner
13h00-13h15: How researchers think about research leadership. Preliminary results from a focus group study with early career and senior researchers at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ, by Lilli Mittner, Malin Rönnblom, and Ann-Therese Lotherington
Lilli Mittner, Senior researcher at the Center for Women´s and Gender Research, ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ
Malin Rönnblom (online participation), Professor at the Department of Political Sciences, Karlstad University, Sweden
WP leader: Kjersti Fjørtoft
13h15-13h30: Gender- and diversity-sensitive leadership at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ: Leading for an equitable and inclusive organization for all
Melina Duarte, Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, researcher at the Center for Women´s and Gender Research at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ and project coordinator
13h30-13h45: Ways forward: do we need feminism in theory and practice?
Kjersti Fjørtoft, Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Head of the Ethics Committee for the Defense Ministry of Norway
 13h45-14h00: Coffee Break
14h00-14h15: About the network
Lilli Mittner, Senior researcher at the Center for Women's and Gender Research, ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ
14h15-14h30: Better Balance in Informatics: An honest discussion with the students
Elisavet Kozyri, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and project leader
14h45-15h00: Implisitt-project: Gender Bias in Philosophy
Kjersti Fjørtoft, Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Head of the Ethics Committee for the Defense Ministry of Norway
15h00-15h15: Girls network at Faculty of engineering science and technology (IVT) campus Narvik
Line Ditlefsen, Studentrådgiver, Norges arktiske Studentsamskipnad Campus Narvik
Tanita Fossli Brustad, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Computational Engineering and project leader
15h15-15h30: Diversity and inclusion beyond gender equality/ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ-SusSTEMEd)
Abhik Ghosh, Professor at the Department of Chemistry, ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ, and project leader
15h30-15h45: Prestige Evaluation Plan. Plan for evaluating what ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ has learned from Prestige and other projects on gender-balance (staff´s learning of institutional support)
Gregor Maxwell, Associate Professor at the Department of Education, ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ
15h45-16h00: Q&A (not recorded)
 
9:00 Welcome coffee
9:15 Purpose and structure of the exploratory workshop
9:30 Gender in the Arctic, by Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, Professor at the Centre for Peace Studies, ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ
10:15 Round table: Project participants give a short account of barriers and facilitators to equal Arctic futures at their institutions
12:00    Lunch break
13:15 PhD workshop: Short presentations of PhD projects on gender equality at the partner institutions
14:15     NOS-HS project partner meeting: Discussion of the proposal for collaboration
The NOS-HS network operates at the ‘living lab’ of the Arctic Five which is a significant collaboration entity in the cross-border Nordic region, with more than 90,000 students studying at its member universities, taught by 10,000 researchers and teachers.