Pages about "Gender equality"

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04 Jun 2024

Over a number of years, the Swedish Research Council has accumulated knowledge on how to promote gender equality in research funding. One tool used by the agency is gender equality observations. These observations aim to scrutinise, from a gender eq...

Keywords: Assessment Gender equality

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30 May 2024

The Swedish Research Council has conducted gender equality observations at the meetings where research grant applications are assessed. We use the observations to follow up our own work and safeguard a gender-equal review process.

Keywords: Assessment Gender equality

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19 Dec 2023

The Swedish Research Council and Forte have mapped research in women’s health and diseases. The result is presented in a new report. The report points out knowledge needs linked to women’s health and diseases, and what research initiatives are needed...

Keywords: Gender equality Medicine and health Research policy

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22 May 2023

The Swedish Research Council shall together with Forte analyse the needs for research in the field of women’s health and diseases. The work will lead to a proposal for how a research initiative in this area can be designed.

Keywords: Gender equality Medicine and health

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28 Mar 2023

AcademiaNet is a database that highlights prominent female researchers. The purpose is to increase the proportion of women in leading positions within the world of research. The Swedish Research Council contributes to the database financially, and by...

Keywords: Gender equality International collaboration

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10 Feb 2023

The six-year collaboration GENDER-NET Plus is about to end. The results from the research projects funded and other activities within the collaboration will be presented at a conference in Brussels on 13–14 February. The conference can be followed on...

Keywords: Gender equality International collaboration

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07 Sep 2022

This year, the European Commission is launching a prize to recognise organisations that drive changes towards increased gender equality within research and innovation. The prize amount is 100 000 EUR.

Keywords: Gender equality

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09 Feb 2022

The database AcademiaNet has been operating since 2010, and makes prominent female researchers more visible. The purpose is to increase the proportion of women in leading positions within the world of research. The Swedish Research Council contribute...

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04 Feb 2022

The international collaboration GENDER-NET Plus has published recommendations to promote gender equality in research funding. The Swedish Research Council has led the work.

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04 Feb 2022

This policy brief contains a set of recommendations to promote gender equality in research funding, put forward by GENDER-NET Plus. The recommendations are mainly directed towards research funding organisations, but one section is directed also towa...

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21 Dec 2021

Do women and men have the same opportunities to advance and make a career in academia, and to conduct research in the Swedish higher education system of today? That is the question this study of gender equality examines. The focus of the study is on ...

Keywords: Gender equality Mobility and career

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24 Jun 2021

The differences between women’s and men’s career development in higher education are small, but women encounter obstacles on the way to a professorship. This is shown in a study by the Swedish Research Council, where around 2 000 researchers answered...

Keywords: Gender equality Mobility and career Gender

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02 Feb 2021

This is the question for a new study of gender equality among researchers in Sweden that the Swedish Research Council will be conducting during 2021. On 29 January a questionnaire was sent to around 4 800 researchers, with questions about their worki...

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07 May 2020

The Swedish Research Council's gender equality observations have led to higher quality in the assessment process, says Sven Stafström, Director General. 2019 was the seventh time such observations were carried out at the meetings where research grant...

Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Assessment Gender equality Review panels Scientific quality

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07 May 2020

Since 2012, gender equality observations have been carried out regularly by the Swedish Research Council. The observations aim to scrutinise, from a gender equality perspective, the meetings where subject experts discuss applications for research gra...

Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Gender equality Research policy Scientific quality

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06 Mar 2020

In 1922 Kerstin Hesselgren became Sweden's first female MP. Each year, the Swedish Research Council issues a call for a Visiting Professorship established in her memory. This year's holder is Ann Phoenix, who will be active at Umeå University.

Keywords: Gender equality Humanities and social sciences Gender

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03 Feb 2019

In 1922 Kerstin Hesselgren became Sweden's first female MP. Each year, the Swedish Research Council issues a call for a Visiting Professorship established in her memory. This year's holder is Ann Phoenix, who will be active at Umeå University.

Keywords: Gender equality Grant terms and conditions Gender

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14 Dec 2018

For some of our calls in 2019, we will be asking all who apply for a grant from us to describe if sex and gender perspectives are relevant in their research.

Keywords: Gender equality Grant terms and conditions Gender

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30 Nov 2018

The Swedish Research Council has commissioned a research review on sexual harassment in academia from the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research, University of Gothenburg. We want to provide an overview of current knowledge in international research...

Keywords: Gender equality

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23 Nov 2018

The Swedish Research Council has produced a research review that provides an up-to-date picture of the research that exists internationally into sexual harassment in academia. We have done this as we realised during last year’s #MeToo movement that t...

Keywords: Gender equality

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06 Sep 2018

Decision has been made on approved applications for International collaboration in GENDER-NET Plus Co-Fund.

Keywords: Decision Development research Gender equality Humanities and social sciences Medicine and health Natural and engineering sciences Research project grant

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01 Jun 2018

Spring call In the 2018 spring call for international postdoc grant the Swedish Research Council approved 41 out of 246 applications. More than 122 million SEK will be allocated over the upcoming three years.

Keywords: Decision Gender equality Statistics

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30 Apr 2018

Spring call In the 2018 spring call for international postdoc grant the Swedish Research Council approved 41 out of 246 applications. More than 122 million SEK will be allocated over the upcoming three years.

Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Evaluation Gender equality

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14 Feb 2018

The purpose of the research project grant is to give researchers the freedom to formulate by themselves the research concept, method and implementation, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period of time. The focus of this grant ai...

Keywords: Gender equality Humanities and social sciences

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06 Dec 2017

Here we present decisions on research environment grant in ageing and health for 2017–2022. Almost 140 million SEK was granted in total.

Keywords: Decision Gender equality Research environment grant Statistics

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05 Dec 2017

On December 5, 2017 we published decisions on research project grant, international postdoc and starting grant within new nuclear technology. In total, nearly 45 million SEK was granted for the grant period 2017–2019.

Keywords: Decision Gender equality Natural and engineering sciences Statistics

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05 Dec 2017

The Swedish Research Council published decisions on research environment grants within clinical therapy research in December 2017. We granted more than 200 million SEK for the period 2017–2020.

Keywords: Clinical therapy research Decision Gender equality Research environment grant Statistics

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05 Dec 2017

On December 5 the Swedish Research Council published decisions on distinguished professor grant 2017. Almost half a billion SEK will be allocated in 2018–2027.

Keywords: Decision Distinguished professor grant Gender equality Statistics

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01 Dec 2017

The Swedish Research Council has granted almost 250 million SEK for International postdoc grants for the period 2017–2020. The grant amount is a standard of 1 050 000 SEK per year and the grant period extends from 1.5 years to a maximum of 3 years.

Keywords: Decision Gender equality Statistics

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21 Nov 2017

In total, more than 8 million SEK were awarded for conference grants in 2017.

Keywords: Conference grant Decision Gender equality Statistics

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02 Nov 2017

In November 2017 the Swedish Research Council published decisions on grants awarded to humanities and social sciences. In total, almost 520 million SEK was granted for the period 2017–2022.

Keywords: Decision Gender equality Humanities and social sciences Statistics

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01 Nov 2017

November 1 2017 we published decisions on grants awarded for Research project grant and Doctoral programme grant. In total, more than 340 million SEK was granted for the period 2017–2021.

Keywords: Decision Educational sciences Gender equality Statistics

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31 Oct 2017

Decisions on Research project grants and Starting grants in natural and engineering sciences was published in October 2017. In total, more than one billion SEK was granted for the period 2017–2021.

Keywords: Decision Gender equality Natural and engineering sciences Statistics

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27 Oct 2017

In October 2017 the Swedish Research Council published decisions on grants awarded to medicine and health. A total of more than one billion SEK was granted for the period 2017–2022.

Keywords: Decision Gender equality Medicine and health Statistics

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24 Oct 2017

In October 2017 the Swedish Research Council published decision on one-year grants for proof of concept within life science. We granted a total of more than 14 million SEK for 2018.

Keywords: Decision Gender equality Statistics Proof of concept grant

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29 Sep 2017

The Swedish Research Barometer provides a picture of the state of Swedish research through some thirty indicators. Focus is on public funding of research, and research carried out at universities and university colleges. The Swedish Research Baromet...

Keywords: Gender equality Research impact Research policy Statistics

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09 May 2017

In autumn 2016, the Swedish Research Council conducted gender equality observations in eight review panels in order to investigate whether there was further room for improvement in terms of procedures, instructions and other aspects that promote gend...

Keywords: Gender equality Research policy

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22 Dec 2016

In December 2016, we published decisions on research project grants for neutron scattering. In total, almost 69 million SEK was granted for the period 2017–2020.

Keywords: Decision Gender equality Natural and engineering sciences Research project grant Statistics

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07 Dec 2016

On December 7, 2016, the Swedish Research Council published decisions on environmental research grants for clinical therapy research. In total, more than 168 million SEK was granted over the period 2017–2019.

Keywords: Clinical therapy research Decision Gender equality Medicine and health Research environment grant Statistics

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06 Dec 2016

In 2016, the Swedish Research Council called for consolidator grant applications for the first time. Here we present the prominent junior researchers who were approved grants. In total, 221 388 000 SEK was granted for the period 2016–2022.

Keywords: Consolidation grant Decision Educational sciences Gender equality Humanities and social sciences Medicine and health Natural and engineering sciences Statistics

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29 Nov 2016

In 2016, we called for grants for international postdoc twice. The grant is a flat amount of 1 050 000 SEK per year and we granted in total about 251 million SEK for the period 2016–2019. US was the most common country chosen by the applicants for fo...

Keywords: Decision Gender equality Statistics

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15 Nov 2016

The Swedish Research Council granted a total of 9 411 342 SEK for conference grants in 2016. Here we present more information about grant approvals in the two calls for applications.

Keywords: Artistic research Conference grant Decision Educational sciences Gender equality Humanities and social sciences Medicine and health Natural and engineering sciences Statistics

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08 Nov 2016

On November 8, 2016, decision were published on awarded network grants within the Indo-Swedish research collaboration. In 2015, the call for applications was a collaboration between the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Innovation Agency Vinnova,...

Keywords: Decision Gender equality International calls International collaboration Medicine and health Natural and engineering sciences Statistics

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07 Nov 2016

A total of 18 million SEK was granted in the 2016 call for proof of concept grant. The purpose of the research project grant is to bridge the gap between basic research and commercialisation of research results in the life science research area.

Keywords: Decision Gender equality Medicine and health Natural and engineering sciences Statistics Proof of concept grant

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03 Nov 2016

The Swedish Research Council granted a total of 146 815 000 SEK for research project grants in educational sciences over the period 2017–2020. The decision was published in November 2016.

Keywords: Decision Educational sciences Gender equality Statistics

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03 Nov 2016

November 3 2016, the Swedish Research Council published decisions on approved grants in humanities and social sciences over the period 2016–2020. Total grant amount was 547 763 900 SEK.

Keywords: Decision Gender equality Humanities and social sciences Statistics

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01 Nov 2016

Here we present approved grants within development research 2016. In total, the Swedish Research Council granted 210 890 000 SEK over the grant period 2017–2020.

Keywords: Decision Development research Gender equality Statistics

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27 Oct 2016

The Swedish Research Council granted a total of almost one billion (979 519 645) SEK for research grants within medicine and health for the period 2016–2020.

Keywords: Decision Gender equality Medicine and health Statistics

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15 Sep 2016

In September 2016, we published decisions on awarded research project grants for artistic research over the period 2017–2019.

Keywords: Artistic research Decision Gender equality Statistics

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03 Apr 2015

The Swedish Research Council’s gender equality observations aim to investigate the Council’s evaluation process from a gender equality perspective and to identify particular points where improvements can be made. In this report the authors shed light...

Keywords: Gender equality Research policy

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09 May 2014

With the Linnaeus grants the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish Research Council Formas, provide support for 40 research centres in different research areas.The aim of the Linnaeus grants is to enhance support for research of the highest qualit...

Keywords: Evaluation Gender equality Research policy

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02 May 2013

This report contains both the Swedish and the English version. These observations on gender equality aim to investigate and bring to light any differences in the Swedish Research Council’s evaluation process in regard to gender and to provide recomm...

Keywords: Gender equality Research policy

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09 Apr 2012

The Linnaeus Grant is an initiative of the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas) to support strong research centres at Swedish universities. This report presents...

Keywords: Evaluation Gender equality Research policy

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11 Apr 2011

The Swedish Research Council has evaluated three communities for gender research, which are called “Centres of Gender Excellence”. In 2006, the Swedish Research Council approved applications from the universities in Uppsala, Umeå and Linköping/Örebro...

Keywords: Evaluation Gender equality Research policy

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10 Jun 2010

The university research communities that received grants in the second call for proposals of the ten-year “Linnaeus Grant” in 2008 have now been evaluated. An international panel of experts has examined the organisation, partnerships and leadership o...

Keywords: Evaluation Gender equality Research policy

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10 Jun 2009

The Swedish Research Council’s investment in grants for employment as a research assistant in the medical research field has paid off. The researchers that received funding for their employment from the government authority in the middle or the end o...

Keywords: Gender equality Mobility and career Research policy

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10 Apr 2008

In November 2006, the Swedish Research Council granted funding for prominent centres for gender research, to be known as "Centres of Gender Excellence”, at the universities of Uppsala, Umeå, and Linköping–Örebro in collaboration. At the same time, it...

Keywords: Gender equality Research policy

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03 Mar 2008

The report presents the findings of a follow-up study into how gender fared in funding applications received by the Swedish Research Council (VR)/The Committee for Educational Sciences (UVK) in 2004. The follow-up study took place during two months i...

Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Gender equality Research policy

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01 Feb 2008

Medical gender research takes social and cultural relationships into consideration in conjunction with biological events. The commissioning of funding for gender research has previously been carried out in part by the Swedish Research Council’s Commi...

Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Gender equality Research policy

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10 May 2006

One of the tasks of the Swedish Research Council is to support gender research and to work for the development of gender perspectives in research. An interdisciplinary committee which is subordinate to the board of the Swedish Research Council, the C...

Keywords: Gender equality Humanities and social sciences

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10 Mar 2006

How are the concepts of quality and excellence in science applied and developed within various fields of research? What are the advantages and problems in the present understanding of excellence with regard to gender research? In October 2005 the Sw...

Keywords: Evaluation Gender equality Research policy