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1st EWORA Workshop

Change Management and Resistance

25 May 2018 University of Lisbon Nova

1st EWORA Workshop

Change Management and Resistance

25 May 2018 University of Lisbon Nova President’s Office

Levent Loft Büyükdere Cad. No. 201 A Blok K:5 D:88 Şişli/Istanbul TURKEY

Tel: + 90 212 284 11 59 E-mail address: [email protected] Postal Address:

European Women Rectors Association 11 Rond Point Schuman, B-1040 Brussels, BELGIUM

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4 CONTENTS

PROGRAM ...... 6

EWORA AND THE RECOGNITION OF SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF GENDER EQUALITY POLICIES 8

BACKGROUND ...... 10

VISION, MISSION & GOALS ...... 12

EWORA INAGURATION CEREMONY ...... 14

5TH EUROPEAN WOMEN RECTORS CONFERENCE...... 16

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE ...... 18

BOARD OF DIRECTORS ...... 20

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD ...... 25

BEYOND THE GLASS CEILING: A JOURNEY FROM 2008 TO 2018 ...... 28 SPEAKERS ...... 29 PARTICIPANTS LIST ...... 36 CLOSING REMARKS...... 39

5 PROGRAM

24/26 May, 2018 Venue: NOVA School of Law, University of Lisbon Nova, Portugal MC: Emellin Oliveira

THURSDAY, MAY 24 2018

15:00-17:00 EWORA Board of Directors (BoD) Meeting 15:00-17:00 EWORA Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) Meeting 17:00-18:00 Joint Meeting of BoD and SAB

FRIDAY, MAY 25 2018

09:00-10:00 Opening Speeches Prof. Gülsün Sağlamer, President, EWORA Prof. Teresa Pizarro Beleza, Dean, Nova Law School Dr. Lotta Strandberg, Senior Adviser, NordForsk Prof. João Sàágua, Rector, University of Lisbon Nova Prof. Manuel Heitor, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal

10:00-11:15 Keynote Speeches: Change Processes Experienced by University Leaders Chair: Prof. Helena Nazare, Former Rector, University of Aveiro

Prof. Pamela Gillies, Vice Chancellor, Glasgow Caledonian University Prof. Kerstin Tham, Vice Chancellor, Malmö University Prof. Ana Costa Freitas, Rector, University of Evora 11:15- 11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 - 13:00 Keynote Speeches: Change Processes Experienced by University Leaders Chair: Prof. Krista Varantola, Former Rector, University of Tampere

Prof. Liisa Laakso, Rector, University of Tampere Prof. Anne de Paepe, Pro Rector, Ghent University Prof. Sara Moreno, Vice Rector, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

6 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 14:30 Group Photo

14:30 - 17:00 Parallel Workshop Sessions Session 1: Imagining the Gender-Free University of the Future? Moderator : Prof. Louise Morley, Professor of Education, University of Sussex Session 2: Leading Change towards Gender Equal Universities Moderator : Prof. Liisa Husu, Professor of Gender Studies, Örebro University 17:00 - 18:00 Concluding Remarks Chair: Prof. Mine G. Tan, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Ankara University Workshop Moderators: Prof. Louise Morley Prof. Liisa Husu

EWORA BoD Members: Gulsun Saglamer Krista Varantola Helena Nazare Christina Ullenius Ursula Nelles Kristin Ingólfsdóttir Carmen Fenoll 18:30 - 19:00 Transfer to the Thalia Theatre, Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal 19:00 - 21:00 Award Ceremony & Banquet The EWORA Honorary AWARD 2018 to the Government of Sweden Prof. Manuel Heitor, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal Prof. Gülsün Sağlamer, President, EWORA Marie Helene Hellmark Knutsson, Minister for Higher Education and Research, Government of Sweden

21:00 Concert

SATURDAY, MAY 26 2018

10:30 - 12:30 EWORA General Assembly (GA) in the morning (only for EWORA members) 12:30 -14:00 Lunch

www.ewora.org

7 EWORA and the Recognition of Successful Implementation of Gender Equality Policies

EWORA was established as a non-profit association in 2015, but its activities started already in 2008 in the format of European Women Rectors Platform. From the start, the aim of EWORA has been to advocate gender equality in higher education and to build up the self-confidence of female academics to apply for academic leadership positions. To celebrate its ten years of existence the Board of Directors of EWORA agreed to pinpoint major gender equality achievements by an Honorary Award granted on the International Women’s Day in March. The aim of this honorary recognition is to highlight actions and initiatives that turn policies into practice and empower women to become fully-fledged citizens in academia and in their respective societies.

EWORA’s first honorary award goes to the current Swedish government as the first Feminist Government in the world. The Swedish government has proclaimed gender equality to be central to its work and therefore gender issues or gender perspectives are integrated into all policy areas, from higher education to foreign policy, and need to be clearly manifested in political initiatives.

Establishing a feminist government is the logical extension of long-term domestic developments in Swedish society. Sweden, however, was not the first country to implement universal suffrage. Finland in 1906, Norway in 1913 and Denmark and Iceland in 1915 were all granting women full voting rights before Sweden finally joined the club in 1919.

8 Developments since then have brought Sweden to a leading position regarding equality between women and men. It has also become generally accepted in Sweden that the contribution of both women and men in society creates value for the individual, for the family and for the development of society. It is no wonder then that Sweden together with the other Nordic countries rank high on international evaluations of gender equality, quality of life, life expectancy and serve as an inspiring example for women and men in other countries.

Among many important areas globally where gender analyses highlight the importance of women’s full participation are naturally education, economic independence, as well as the numerous crisis management processes currently in progress in many parts of the world. In short, the issue is about securing universal human rights for women. An assessment of the implementation of the action plan for feminist foreign policy shows that Sweden has actively promoted feminist foreign policy in bi- and multilateral cooperation.

Implementation, indeed, is the keyword. It is fairly easy to establish equality policies, for example, in higher education but little happens if policies are not supported by affirmative action. Only when policies materialize as equal participation of women and men in academic decision-making bodies, will the number of female project researchers, female senior academics and university leaders reach satisfactory levels. The important thing is that mainstreaming gender starts early in the education system and stays on the academic agenda.

Currently NordForsk, (the joint Nordic funding agency) and many national Nordic funding agencies also have ambitious research programmes for gender equality indicating that research on gender and gender issues still need to be mainstreamed in Nordic societies.

A great deal still needs to happen even in the Nordic countries before “all male panels” and hidden discriminatory practices disappear from the Nordic scene and girls and grown women feel that they are treated equally throughout their education, have equal career prospects, and girls are told from the beginning what they can do instead of what they are not supposed to do.

To summarize, experience has shown that, at national level, equality in academia and other walks of life can only be achieved through continued awareness and implementation of gender mainstreaming policies. At international level, however, the feminist foreign policy agenda driven by the Swedish government presents an approach that is far more radical and wider in scope than the rest of the world is used to and will in the long run contribute to gender equality in unprecedented ways.

EWORA is very proud that the Swedish government has agreed to accept the Honorary Award.

9 BACKGROUND

European Women Rectors Association (EWORA) is a full-fledged international non-profit association established in Brussels under Belgian Law in December 2015 to promote the role of women in leadership positions in the academic sector and to advocate gender equality in higher education and research at European and international scales. EWORA is also the continuation of European Women Rectors Platform (EWRP), which has been active since 2008 in organizing biennial European Women Rectors Conferences.

Istanbul Technical University took part in a FP6 project titled “UNICAFE” that was funded by EC between the years 2006-2008. The dissemination conference of UNICAFE was organized by the ITU team in 2008. As many findings of UNICAFE project pointed to the importance of leadership for achieving gender equality in HE institutions the first conference for European women rectors was organized as a pre-conference meeting of the UNICAFE dissemination conference in 2008 in Istanbul. Since then biennial conferences were organized and hosted by Istanbul Technical University and European Women Rectors Platform (EWRP) was formed in 2010. These biennial conferences that are titled “Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Women Rectors Across Europe” provided the opportunity for women rectors and vice rectors to share their experiences as academic leaders. They also have brought together an interdisciplinary group of women academic leaders who share a commitment to foster new approaches in order to increase the number of women academic leaders around the world. The participants of these conferences also focused on new ideas to improve the conditions for women academics to remove the barriers for horizontal and vertical segregation.

Since women academics’ under-representation at top levels of administration is still among the most important issues in higher education, the series of Women Rectors Conferences intended to examine the position and the experiences of women in higher educational administration and

10 discuss the strategies that have been used to improve the inclusion of women at this level. The conferences further aimed at achieving these objectives through analysis and comparison of different international practices and policies. With resolving to transform this institutional potential to reality, EWORA is founded with the aim of addressing gender-based structural inequality, especially with regard to academic leadership.

11 November, 2008, 11 national and FIRST CONFERENCE 2002 Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Women Academics in Engineering, Technology and Life Sciences Across Europe” Istanbul 10 international participants

12-14 April 2010, 21 national and SECOND CONFERENCE Beyond The Glass Ceiling: Women Rectors Across Europe Women Leadership In Higher Education Istanbul 28 international participants

21- 23 May 2012, 19 national and THIRD CONFERENCE Beyond The Glass Ceiling: Women Rectors Across Europe Achievements, Challenges & Opportunities Istanbul 60 international participants

15- 17 May 2014, 25 national and FOURTH CONFERENCE Beyond The Glass Ceiling: Women Rectors Across Europe, Role of Leadership in Structural Changes Istanbul 58 international participants

After the fourth conference, which was organized under the patronage of UNESCO, a set of recommendations, based on the discussions during the conference has been developed. Participants who are or have been leaders in academic institutions have crafted and designed recommendations on the bases of their career experiences as well as the contributions of the experts. This document, which is called as “Istanbul Recommendations”, provides recommendations in 3 main titles, which are “Recommendations for Academic Leaders / Leadership”, “Recommendations for National Authorities” and Recommendations for Supra-National Organizations. As EWRP have started to foster collaboration and exchange of information among women decision makers of higher education, all of these accumulated engagements necessitated to expand the existing knowledge and network by establishing a legal entity. Within this regard, EWORA will continue to take initiatives and create new approaches for women ́s equal representation at decision making levels of higher education and research.

The founding Board Members are Carmen Fenoll, Kristín Ingólfsdóttir, Helena Nazare, Ursula Nelles, Gulsun Saglamer (President), Christina Ullenius and Krista Varantola.

11 VISION MISSION GOALS

VISION:

EWORA promotes gender equality in higher education and research with special reference to leadership.

MISSION:

EWORA is established to develop strategies for increasing women at decision making levels in higher education and research. EWORA is committed to provide opportunity for women rectors to share their experiences to improve the situation of women academics and to remove the barriers for horizontal and vertical segregation in academia.

GOALS:

EWORA aims to

• Develop strategies and policies that will: - encourage women academics to target leadership positions; - create opportunities for increasing women’s representation in higher education and research; - be proposed to decision makers at institutional, national and European levels;

• establish a new Europe-wide network to transfer and spread knowledge and experience among women leaders in academia;

• ensure a balanced participation of women and men in academic leadership;

• observe, evaluate and analyse the gender differences in academia in different cultures at European levels;

• conduct research on gender equality in academia at European and international levels to become more effective and efficient for achieving substantial change across the world.

12 13 EWORA Inaguration Ceremony

The Inauguration Ceremony of EWORA was held on June 20, 2016 at University Foundation/ Fondation Universitaire in Brussels. The primary goal of the meeting was to appraise the challenges and opportunities of women empowerment in academic participation and leadership. The event attracted a distinguished audience of present and former women academic leaders, representatives of major networks of higher education, gender experts and diplomats from a number of countries. European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Mr. Carlos Moedas, honored the meeting with a keynote speech titled “Equality isn’t just a women’s issue, it’s a human one”. Congratulating the establishment of EWORA he said, “I hope you will use the power of your network to make your voices heard in research policy making here and at home”. He also emphasized the significance of women’s networks by concluding that “the bigger and more diverse the ecosystem of women’s networks we have in every sector, the closer we will get to true equality, because equality isn’t a women’s issue it’s a human one.”

UN Women Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, Ms. Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, also gave a keynote speech stressing the need for investment in women’s education and participation in leadership positions. Věra Jourová, European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality sent a video message to the meeting.

The second part of the Inaugural Ceremony consisted of three panel sessions. The first of the panels was chaired by the Honorary Rector of Université Libre de Bruxelles, Professor Pierre de Maret, and the panelists were Finland’s Ambassador to Belgium, Timo Ranta and Ambassador, Permanent Delegation of Turkey to the EU, Selim Yenel. The ambassadors addressed the gender equality issues in their countries. The second panel was chaired by the President of EUA, Professor Rolf Tarrach, and the panelists were five of the Board Members of EWORA : Gulsun Saglamer, Helena Nazaré, Ursula Nelles, Christina Ullenius and Carmen Fenoll. The Board Members shared their personal experiences as women leaders in academia and discussed their expectations for the future of EWORA. The third panel, with the Head of Sector “Gender”, EC DG for R&I, Viviane Willis-Mazzichi as the chair, and three members of the Scientific Advisory Board of EWORA, Liisa Husu, Ines Sanches de Madariaga and Mine G. Tan. As the closing remarks of the inaugration Ceremony the panel drew attention to the implications of EWORA for the empowerment of women as well as the change in the culture and structure of academic institutions.

All the highlights, videos and speeches of the Inauguration Ceremony are available on EWORA’s YouTube channel.

14 15 5th European Women Rectors Conference

5th European Women Rectors Conference was held on May 29/30, 2017 in Solvay Library, Brussels. The meeting attracted over 85 international participants of EU representatives, women university leaders, representatives of higher education networks and gender experts in order to assess the opportunities and challenges for empowering women to participate in academic leadership positions. 2017 Conference further aimed to promote a better understanding of gender disparity in academia by discussing the policies, strategies and actions employed in different European HE institutions for achieving gender equality. The event started with an Opening Session on 29th of May, 2017 and the first speaker Gulsun Saglamer, President, EWORA, welcomed participants and focused on the change processes in HE&R on gender equality. Liu Jinan, President, WWUPF; Jesper Simonsen, Chair of the Program Committee, NordForsk; Candan Fetvacı, Executive Director, Aydın Doğan Foundation gave their speeches in this session. Helene Hellmark Knuttson, Swedish Minister for Higher Education and Research, honored us in this conference with a keynote address in Plenary Session III. In her speech, she emphasized Sweden as the world’s first feminist government. She elaborated on how the Swedish Government has a gender perspective and analysis in all its policy making areas. She concluded her speech with a strong message that “the world needs more science and science needs more women”. Pleanary Session I was chaired by Krista Varantola, Vice President, EWORA, and the panelists were Jean- David Malo, the Director, DG R&I of EC; Martine Rahier, Vice President, EUA, and Dagmar Schumacher, Director, UN Women Brussels. Plenary session II was chaired by Mine Tan, EWORA Scientific Advisory Board and the panelists were Fanny M. Cheung, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Pat O’Connor, Prof. Emeritus of Sociology, University of Limerick and Liisa Husu, Prof. of Gender Studies, Örebro University. Plenary Session IV was chaired by Ursula Nelles, former rector, Munster Universiy; and the panelists were, Carmen Vela, State Secretary for R&D and Innovation, Spain; Leopold Demiddeleer, Managing Director & Founder, TechBridgeOne and Sijbolt Noorda, President, Magna Charta Observatory. Roundtable I, titled “The Role of Women Leadership in Organizational Change” and chaired by Helena Nazare, Former Rector, Aveiro University. The panelists were Liisa Laakso, Rector, Tampere University; Eva Wiberg, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Lund University, Pamela Gillies, Vice Chancellor, Glasgow Caledonian University, and Sabine Schindler, Rector, UMIT Hall. Roundtable II, titled “Gender Action Plans & Change Management” chaired by Kristin Ingólfsdóttir, former rector, University of Iceland. The panelists were Viviane Willis-Mazzichi, Head of Sector “Gender”, DG R&I at EC; Therese Murphy, Head of Operations, EIGE; Pepi P. Costa, Vice Rector of PUCP and Bianka Siwinska, Executive Director, Perspektywy Education Foundation. Roundtable III, titled “Empowering and Encouraging Women Academics: What works & What does not?” and chaired by Carmen Fenoll, former Vice Rector, UCLM. The panelists were Maren A. Jochimsen, Vice President, EPWS; Gita Revalde, former rector, Ventspils University College; Ramona Mihaila, Vice Rector, Dimitrie Cantemir University; Ana G. Ramos, Senior researcher, Open University of Catalonia; Marja-Liisa Tenhunen, former president, Centria University of Applied Sciences. Roundtable IV, titled “Best Practices & Lessons Drawn from the Experiences of HE Networks” and chaired by Prof. Fanny M. Cheung. The panelists were Jacques Lanarès, UNICA Steering Committee; Stephan Kuster, Acting Director, Science Europe; Katrien Maes, Chief Policy Officer, LERU and David Bohmert, Secretary General, CESAER. The event finalized with concluding remarks by EWORA Board members. This session chaired by Prof. Gulsun Saglamer and was a great chance to receive feedback from the participants.

16 17 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Dear Colleagues,

It is my great pleasure to welcome you here at University of Lisbon Nova for the 1st EWORA Workshop. As you know EWORA is the extension of the European Women Rectors Platform which became operational in 2008. I am very happy to announce that with this workshop we are also celebrating our 10th Anniversary here in Lisbon. Thank you for honouring EWORA by joining this meeting.

Responses to our 2017 online questionnaire indicated that not only biennial conferences but also workshops with more specific theme were expected of EWORA. I hope that this year’s workshop for which we have around 60 participants from 19 countries will be an opportunity for academic leaders to exchange their experiences and thoughts on change management and resistance in general rather than only focusing on gender equality.

“Defining the role of higher education in the society and devising strategies for implementing that role is a never-ending quest as the society itself is in continuous change. Individual institutions of higher education can choose to be active players in the worldwide efforts to reformulate the functions and strategies of higher education or can be content with implementing received wisdom from best practices around the world or can even choose to resist change by preserving their existing modes of operation” (Sağlamer & Karakullukçu, 2004).

“Change” is one of the major agenda item on the table for the leaders of HE&R institutions. Nevertheless, “managing change means managing people’s fear. Change is natural and positive, but the reaction of people to change is unpredictable and irrational. However, there is a consolation and an advice: it can be managed if done right.” (Gonçalves & Gonçalves, 2012). In order to minimise the risks, following questions should be asked and answered before moving forward: Does the culture of the institution support change? Does the institution have access to high calibre human resources with matching values to design and implement change? Is the institution able to control internal and external constraints? In short, does the institution have the capacity for change and the ability to realise its dreams? “Since we can never be absolutely sure how our actions will turn out, there’s risk associated with everything we do. There’s risk in change, but there’s also risk in not changing” (Hultman, 2004). “Unfortunately, not every change process leads to the expected results. There are multiple reasons for potential failure: Typical barriers to change are unexpected changes in the external conditions, a lack of commitment in implementation, resistance of people involved, or a lack of resources. The implications of failed change projects go beyond missed objectives. More important is the negative symbolism and the de-motivation of people involved.” (Recklies, 2014)

Resistance as one of the main issues to be tackled in change processes is viewed as being a natural and inevitable part of the process and as something that exists within the individual. Resistance is “a phenomenon that emerges during processes of change-such as when gender equality policies are

18 implemented-and that is aimed at maintaining the status quo and opposing change” (Lombardo & Mergaert, 2013). To sum up, “Any change in people’s lives implies a natural reaction, considering that the changes mean that the individuals leave the comfort zone in which they live for a new and unknown reality.” (Gonçalves & Gonçalves, 2012)

In the EU project called FESTA (Female Empowerment in Science Technology Academia), financed under FP7 - Capacities (February 2012 -January 2017) we aimed to present a deeper understanding of resistance to structural change to gender equality in academic institutions and the ways of dealing with it. In this framework we defined the main causes and indicators together with forms and symptoms of resistance and analysed the resistance cases to design efficient and effective strategies to overcome it. We also prepared a Handbook On Resistance To Gender Equality In Academia & Toolkit For Resistance. The handbook as well as the toolkit is expected to be useful to change agents and researchers engaged in gender equality projects both in academic and non-academic institutions. It also targets anyone engaged in change process in any subject area since it covers some of the general types of resistance which are not directly related to gender issues (www.resge.eu).

Defining gender as a major priority in the organization needs the support of not only the management / leadership team but also the other members of organization. Our work concerning resistance helped to see that women’s empowerment or career advancement may not always attract the leaders or the followers. Even using the word “gender” may result in resistance coming from different echelons. In some contexts male and female academics may feel uncomfortable to come across a policy, which is addressed towards women only. In such cases the words “opportunity” and “diversity” may be chosen to stress positive meanings connoting dynamism and entrepreneurship (Liff & Cameron, 1997).This approach could be a practical way of making a persuasive case where gender is included as one of the major priority areas together with other equality and diversity policies (Dent & Goldberg, 1999).

Dear Colleagues, Board of Directors of EWORA decided to establish “EWORA Honorary Award” to be presented to institutions/persons with remarkable achievements in gender equality every year to be announced on the International Women’s Day of the 8th of March. We have the great pleasure of presenting “The EWORA Honorary Award 2018” to the Government of Sweden to recognise and celebrate its actions that have turned equality policies into practice nationally and internationally.

On behalf of EWORA I would like to thank NordForsk and ITU Development Foundation for their generous support of this workshop. I would also like to thank The Ministry of Higher Education and Research of Portugal and University of Lisbon Nova for their great support to this event. Last but not least I would like to acknowledge and express our deep appreciation for all our distinguished speakers, chairpersons and participants for their contributions. I hope and expect that this workshop will be a most fruitful endeavour to understand and deal with many other cases of resistance to change.

References: Dent, E. B. & Goldberg, S. G. (1999). Challenging “Resistance to Change”. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 35 (1), 25-41. Gonçalves, J. M. & Gonçalves, R. P. da S. (2012). Overcoming resistance to changes in information technology organizations. Procedia Technology, 5, 293- 301. Hultman, K. E. (2014) “Managing resistance to change.” http://humanproof.com/files/Managing_Resistance_to_Change_ Ken_Hultman_%281%29.pdf Liff, S. & Cameron, I. (1997). Changing Equality Cultures to Move Beyond ‘Women’s Problems’. Gender, Work & Organization (4), 35-46. Lombardo, E. & Mergaert, L. (2013). Gender Mainstreaming and Resistance to Gender Training: A Framework for Studying Implementation. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 21 (4), 296-311. Recklies, D. (2014). “What Makes a Good Change Agent?” http://www.themanager.org/2014/11/what-makes-a-good- change-agent/ Saglamer, G. & Karakullukçu, M. (2004). Istanbul Technical University 1996- 2004: Crafting a Design for Permanence at the Forefront of Knowledge Creation, OECD-IMHE Conference 2004, Paris.

19 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

GULSUN SAGLAMER (PRESIDENT) [email protected]

Prof.Dr. Gulsun Saglamer, Former Rector of Istanbul Technical University (ITU) (1996-2004) is a professor of architecture and was as a post-doc researcher in Cambridge University (1975-1976), visiting Prof. in Queen’s University of Belfast in 1993-1996 and was also an external examiner at the same university (1999 and 2003). She was a member of the Scientific Committee of TUBITAK-INTAG (The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey) (1990-1996). She was a Board Member of European University Association (2005-2009), a member of the Steering Committee of the EUA’s Institutional Evaluation Programme (IEP) (2009-2013) and a member of the Research Policy Working Group of EUA (2005-2015). She is a member of the Editorial Boards of “Open House International”, “International Journal for Housing Science and Its Applications”. Prof. Saglamer is President of CMU (Community of Mediterranean Universities) (2012- ), President of European Women Rectors Association (EWORA) (2015-) She is a member the EC’s Advisory Groups of Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) and Gender. She has chaired the MSCA AG between 2013-2016.

She has received several architectural prizes and was awarded Honoris Causa by Carleton University, Canada (2001), Universitatea de Nord Din Baia Mare University, Romania (2002) and Ovidius University of Constantza in Romania (2009). American Institute of Architects (AIA) awarded her “Honorary Fellowship (Hon FAIA) in 2006 and she has been also awarded “Leonardo da Vinci Medal” by SEFI (Société Européenne Pour la Formation Ingénieurs- European Society for Engineering Education) in 2005-2006. She is a member of European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters since 2011.

20 KRISTA VARANTOLA (VICE PRESIDENT) [email protected]

Chancellor emerita Krista Varantola received her PhD in English from the University of Turku in English, Finland in 1985. In 1989 she became professor of English at the University of Tampere.

She held several administrative positions at Tampere and served as Rector (President) and Chancellor of the University of Tampere. She was Chair of the Finnish Council of University Rectors for 2008-2009. She is currently member of the University Board of the University of Jyväskylä. She also chairs the National Advisory Board on Research Integrity in Finland and is member of the ALLEA board and ALLEA permanent working group on science and ethics.

Krista Varantola is one of the founding members of EWORA.

CARMEN FENOLL [email protected] Prof. Fenoll holds a PhD in Biological Sciences by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of California, San Diego and later a Tenured Associate Professor at UAM. She was Visiting Scientist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA, and Tinker Full Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

She is Professor at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, teaching genomics and genetic engineering, and belongs to the Academic Commission for the PhD Program on Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. She leads the Biotechnology and Plant Molecular Biology Research Group, focused on sustainable agriculture (see orcid.org/0000-0003-4653-6268 and http:// gbbmp.uclm.es/ for a summary of her research activity). She acts regularly as evaluator for scientific manuscripts, project proposals and academic staff for various academic institutions.

Prof. Fenoll was Vice-rector at UCLM and General Director at the Ministry of Science. She works with Quality Assurance Agencies in Europe and belongs to the Institutional Evaluation Program of the European University Association. She is General Secretary of the Spanish Association for Women Researchers (www.AMIT.org) and a Board Member of the European Women Rectors Association (EWORA).

21 KRISTÍN INGÓLFSDÓTTIR [email protected] Kristín Ingólfsdóttir served as President of the Governing Council and Rector of the University of Iceland from 2005 to 2015. She is professor at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Iceland and is currently visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Kristín serves on the Board of Governors at the University of Luxembourg, Board of Trustees of the Leifur Eiriksson Foundation, Board of European Women Rectors´Association (EWORA) and Board of the Össur and Ottobock Research Fund. She has previously been a board member of the European University Association (EUA), Nordic University Association (NUS), Nordic Academy for Advanced Study, NorFA (now NordForsk) and the Icelandic Research Council. She was a longstanding member of the Medicine Council of the Icelandic Medicines Agency and served as representative at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in London. Kristín received her degree in pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Iceland and her PhD degree from King´s College, University of London in the field of pharmaceutical chemistry, focusing on natural products. Her research mainly involved isolation and chemical identification of pharmacologically active compounds from lichens, mosses and marine organisms. In addition to pharmaceutical and healthcare concerns, her interests are focused on educational innovation and policy and the use of technology in enhancing teaching and learning and providing equal access to education.

MARIA HELENA NAZARÉ [email protected]

Maria Helena Nazaré, trained as physicist, graduated (Master of Science-1972), from University of Lisbon, PhD from the University of London (King’s College London) in 1978 and habilitation from University of Aveiro in 1989. Obtained a full professorship in 1990. In 1986, took up leadership of the research group in Spectroscopy of Semiconductors in the Department of Physics at the University of Aveiro. Worked and taught at different countries/continents: Africa ( Mozambique and South Africa), Europe (several countries) and USA. Head of Department between 1988 and 1990, Vice-President of the Scientific Council in 1990-91 and Vice-Rector of the University of Aveiro 1992-1998. Elected Rector of the University of Aveiro 2002 and reelected for a second mandate in 2006-2010. Served the Portuguese National Education Council as Chair of the Higher Education 2009-2012. Vice-President of the EUA in 2009- 2011 and elected President in 2011, a position held until July 2015. Outside academia served as member of the Administration Board of Aveiro Maritime Harbour 1998-2002, member of the Administration Board of Portugal Telecom 2008-2015, President of the Advisory Board of Fundação Galp Energia and President of the Portuguese Physics Society (2009-2013). Currently is a Member of Board of Trustees of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos in Portugal since 2013 and a member of the Board of Universidade Nova de Lisboa since 2014. Chair of the Higher Education Council since March 2016. Honorary distinctions: Grã Cruz da Ordem de Instrução Pública ( 2015), Chanceler das ordens de Mérito Março 2016

22 URSULA NELLES [email protected]

Born in 1949. Earned master’s (1976) and doctoral (1980) degrees in law at the University of Münster. Dissertation on the subject: “Increased danger in any delay – exceptional authorities in criminal procedural law”. Professorial degree (Habilitation) on the subject: “Asset stripping in disadvantage to companies and legal entities” in 1990. Admittance to the bar as a practising lawyer (1990). Substitute professorship at the Universities of Münster and Hamburg and guest lecturer at the University of Nijmegen (NL). In 1991 appointed Professor of Criminal Law and Law of Criminal Procedure at the University of Bremen; parallel teaching assignments at the Universities of Greifswald (1992) and Düsseldorf (1993). Since 1994 professor for Criminal Law, Law of Criminal Procedure, and Economic Crime at the University of Münster and Director of the Institute of Criminal Sciences. President of the German Women Lawyers Association (1997 – 2001) and co-founder of the European Women Lawyers Association (EWLA). Member of the Advisory Council of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg (1998 – 2008). Dean of the Faculty of Law (2004 - 2006). Since October 2006 Rector of the University of Münster.

CHRISTINA ULLENIUS [email protected]

Professor Christina Ullenius, Sweden Christina Ullenius former rector of Karlstad University, Sweden, 1995 - 2006. Under her leadership Karlstad University developed into a young institution with a strong commitment to serving society through creating strong profiles in research and education of international standing in nationally strategic areas in collaboration with academic and industrial partners. Ullenius is a chemical engineer by training and has had a long research and teaching career in organic chemistry at Chalmers university of Technology in Gothenburg. She was vice rector at Chalmers 1989 – 1994. She has also spent periods of research in the US. Throughout her career Ullenius has been strongly committed to enhancing the role of women in academic leadership Ullenius is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy for Engineering Sciences and is the chair of one of its divisions. Some previous commitments: President of the board of the Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences, 1996 – 2000. President of the Swedish Association of Higher Education, 2001 – 2004. President of the board, The Swedish National Library, 2007 Vice president of the European University Association 2005 - 2009. Professional interests The future role of universities; the continued development from the traditional academic culture to an open institution deeply involved with society at large. Critical changes needed in governance? The shaping of a new professional leadership. Integrating gender aspects.

23 HULYA CAGLAYAN Secretary General [email protected]

Hulya Caglayan gained her undergraduate degree in Philosophy at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey in 2009. During her undergraduate studies, she attended International Summer School by European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA) in Berlin, Germany in 2007. She then completed her Masters in Cultural Studies at Sabancı University in Istanbul, in 2011. She received an honorable mention at “Dicle Kogacioglu Article Award 2011” for her article based on her MA thesis. She also worked as a teaching assistant at Sabancı University between September 2009 and June 2012. Between August 2012 and February 2017, Hulya Caglayan worked at Istanbul Technical University as a researcher for the project titled “Female Empowerment in Science and Technology Academia” (FESTA) funded by EC under FP7 capacities. During the FESTA project, she conducted extensive field work on the gendered conditions of academia in Turkey, together with being engaged in the organization of various conferences, implementation of trainings and workshops, as well as having an active role in the publication of several FESTA expert reports. Since her involvement in FESTA project, Hulya Caglayan also took part in SHEMERA (She Euromeditarrenean Research Area, FP 7) project, and a national project titled Network of Female Academicians in SET in Turkey (NETFA). Hulya Caglayan was appointed as the General Secretary of EWORA, European Women Rectors Association, which was founded in December 2015 and based in Brussels and is currently holding this position.

24 SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD

FANNY M.C. CHEUNG

Professor Cheung is currently Pro-Vice-Chancellor/Vice-President for Research, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at CUHK. She was formerly Dean of the Faculty of Social Science and Chairperson of the Department of Psychology. As Pro-Vice-Chancellor/Vice-President for Research, Professor Cheung is the Chairperson of the Research Committee and oversees the governance of interdisciplinary research institutes as well as knowledge transfer at CUHK. Professor Cheung obtained her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and PhD in Psychology from the University of Minnesota. Her research expertise lies in cross-cultural personality assessment and psychopathology, personality and vocational behavior, gender equality, and women leadership. Professor Cheung is Past President of the International Test Commission, and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) as well as the Association for Psychological Science (APS). Her active community engagement includes serving as the founding Chairperson of the Equal Opportunities Commission and member of the Electoral Affairs Commission, in Hong Kong, and as Hong Kong Delegate to the 7th to 11th National Congress of Chinese Women in China. Professor Cheung has published and lectured widely and internationally. Her academic publications total over 180 internationally refereed journal articles, book chapters, books and monographs. Her academic honours and awards include the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award 2014, American Psychological Association (APA) Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology 2012, Distinguished International Psychologist Award of APA Division 52 (2005), and Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals from the University of Minnesota (2003).

25 LIISA HUSU

Professor Liisa Husu is a Finnish sociologist and gender expert, actively engaged in gender and science issues in research, policy and civil society since the early 1980s. She is Professor of Gender Studies at the Örebro University, Sweden, and Co-Director of GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies. As a Senior Adviser and National Co-ordinator of Women’s Studies, she was engaged in gender equality policy-making in the Finnish governmental gender equality machinery in the Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Social Affairs, from early 1980s to mid-1990s. Research and publications focus on gender in science, academia and knowledge production, especially gender dynamics and inequalities in scientific careers, organisations and science policy. She has lectured and presented her research in over thirty countries, and contributed extensively as a gender expert/adviser for R&D stakeholders in Europe and internationally, including ministries, international and national agencies, funding organisations, universities and research institutes. She has played an active role in European research development and actions on gender and science in EC expert groups, EC research projects (ADVANCE, PROMETEA, genSET, GenPORT, GEDII) and international networks. She contributed to the EC report Gender and Excellence in the Making (2004), and was the Rapporteur of the EC expert group Gender and Excellence (The Gender Challenge in Research Funding, 2009). She was a founding member of the European Platform of Women Scientists, and as the moderator of the European Network on Gender Equality in Higher Education has contributed to organising nine European Conferences on Gender Equality in Higher Education. In 2009 she was awarded the University of Helsinki Gender Equality Prize, the Maikki Friberg Prize.

INÉS SÁNCHEZ DE MADARIAGA

Ines Sánchez de Madariaga is a leading international expert on gender in STEM, architecture and city planning with extensive experience in both public policy and research. She is UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality Policies in Science, Technology and Innovation and Professor of Urban Planning at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid . She is member of the Leadership Advisory Council of the Spanish UN-Sustainable Solutions Development Network and a gender expert to the Habitat III process at UN-Habitat. She has been Chair of the international COST network Gender, Science, Technology and Environment, genderSTE; co- Director of the EU-US Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment.As member of the European Commission Helsinki Group on Gender in Research and Innovation and Chair the EC Expert Group on Structural Change of Research Organizations, she played a key role in the negotiations to introduce gender as a central element of the EC research program Horizon2020. She is member of the Scientific Advisory Committees of the European projects Genport, Genovate, RRITools, Libra, Sagerip, GEDII. She is an Urbact expert and a member of the Scientific Committee of the UNESCO global project to promote gender in science SAGA.

26 MINE G. TAN

Mine G. Tan is a member of the gender equality committee of the national commission for UNESCO, Turkey and Feminist Academicians Studying Women’s Labour. She worked as a professor of sociology of education and gender studies at Ankara University and held several administrative positions like the head of the Department of Women’s Studies and board member of the Women’s Studies Center of the same university. She was a founding and executive committee member in the Women’s Studies Center in Science, Engineering and Technology of Istanbul Technical University (2009-2012). She was also a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, England and Fulbright scholar at Washington State University, USA. She participated in such international gender projects as, Female Empowerment in Science and Technology Academia (FESTA), She Euromediterranean Research Area (SHEMERA), Meta Analysis of Gender and Science Research, Survey of the Career of Female Scientists at Life Sciences versus Technical Universities (UNICAFE), Education in ‘Multicultural’ Societies project of Goteborg University and Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, Population and Development Strategies research commissioned by Turkish Academy of Sciences/UNFPA. She participated in such national projects as the Network of Female Academicians in Science Engineering and Technology in Turkey (NETFA), Civil Initiative for the Education of Girls in Turkey, Turkish Women’s Thesaurus.

LOUISE MORLEY

Louise Morley AcSS is a Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER) at the University of Sussex, UK. Louise has an international profile in the field of the sociology of gender in higher education studies. Her research and publication interests focus on international higher education policy, gender, equity, micropolitics, quality, leadership and power. She is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Society for Research into Higher Education, a Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Gender Excellence, University of Örebro, Sweden, and the 2013-2014 Inaugural Chair, Women’s Leadership Centre, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia. She is currently conducting research on women and leadership in higher education in South Asia for the British Council. She has also completed research for the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education on women and leadership, and on Widening Participation in Higher Education in Ghana and Tanzania for the ESRC/DFID. She has held research grants from the Economic and Social Research Council, the UK Department for International Development, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the British Council, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. She is on the editorial boards for Studies in Higher Education, Gender and Education, Teaching in Higher Education and Higher Education Research and Development. Recent publications include: Morley, L. (2014). “Lost Leaders: Women in the Global Academy.” Higher Education Research and Devel opment. 33(1): 111–125; Morley, L. (2012). “The Rules of the Game: Women and the Leaderist Turn in Higher Education “ Gender and Education. 25(1).

27 BEYOND THE GLASS CEILING: A JOURNEY FROM 2008 TO 2018

28 SPEAKERS

MANUEL HEITOR

Manuel Heitor is Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education in the Government of Portugal since November 2015. From March 2005 to June 2011 he served as Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Higher Education.

Manuel Heitor is full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, IST, the engineering school of the University of Lisbon and was founder and director of the IST´s “Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research”, as well as director of the IST´s doctoral Programs in “Engineering and Public Policy, EPP” and in “Enginering Design”. In 2011-12 he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard.

He earned a PhD at Imperial College, London, in 1985 in combustion research and did post-doctoral training at the University of California San Diego. Then he pursued an academic career at IST, in Lisbon, where he served as Deputy- President for the period 1993-1998. Since 1995, he has been Research Fellow of the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas at Austin. He is a founding member of the S&T Council of the “International Risk Governance Council”, IRGC. He was a co-founder of the European network “science, technology, education and policy for Europe, step4EU”.

29 HELENE HELLMARK KNUTTSON

Helene Hellmark Knutsson was appointed as Minister for Higher Education and Research by Prime Minister Stefan Löfven on October 3, 2104. She represents the Social Democratic Party.

Since 2013, she has been a member of the National Board of the Social Democratic Party and Chair of the Social Democratic Party in Stockholm County. She was a member of the board of the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions from 2011-2014, and Chair of the Council for the Stockholm Mälar Region from 2011-2013.

Minister Hellmark Knutsson served as County Council Commissioner at Stockholm County Council from 2010-2014 and group leader of the Social Democratic Party at Stockholm County Council from 2011-2014. She served as Municipal Commissioner and Chair of the Municipal Executive Board in Sundbyberg Municipality from 2001-2010. Prior to that, she was an Ombudsman with the Swedish Trade Union Confederation from 1996-2001.

She was born in Solna in 1969. Helene Hellmark Knutsson has studied History, Political Economy and Statistics at Stockholm University.

Helene Hellmark Knutsson is married and has two children.

30 JOÃO SÀÁGUA

João Sàágua is the Rector of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA).

With a PhD in Contemporary Philosophy, he is Full Professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA (FCSH/NOVA).

João Sàágua has been teaching at NOVA since 1980, accumulating a long experience as a professor at all levels of teaching - undergraduate, masters and doctoral, not only in Portugal but also abroad.

In addition to an intensive teaching and research activity, João Sàágua also held several management positions, notably at FCSH/NOVA, where he was Director between 2005 and 2013 and President of the Scientific Council (between 2009 and 2013).

From 2014 to 2017, João Sàágua held the post of Vice-Rector of NOVA for the Academic and International Relations areas.

ANNE DE PAEPE

Anne De Paepe graduated as an M.D. from Ghent University in 1980. She completed a residency in internal medicine (1985) and subsequently a fellowship in human genetics ( including a training at the MRC, Dermatology Research Group, Northwick Park Hospital, London, UK). She joined the Center for Medical Genetics from the Ghent University Hospital , where she started a clinical and laboratory research setting for her studies on Heritable Connective Tissue Disorders . She obtained a PhD in human genetics at Ghent university in 1987 and a ….in Higher Education in 1992. In 1993 Anne De Paepe was appointed as Chair of the Center for Medical Genetics and as associate professor of human and medical genetics at Ghent University. She was promoted to full professor in 1997. Under her direction the Center for Medical Genetics developed into a multidisciplinary and renowned department and her research activities gained international recognition as witnessed by her many assignments in national and international scientific boards, her invited contributions in international meetings, large scientific output with over 380 peer reviewed publications and many scientific prizes and awards. She engaged in several functions and positions at Ghent university (a.o. in the research board of the university and as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences) as well as in several national and international Advisory Boards and Committees. In 2012 she was elected as the first female Rector of Ghent University ( in its 200 years history) , position she took for a term of 4 years ( till October 2017) . She now serves as Prorector, with several assignments in the university, the university hospital ( o.a. Chair of the Board for Academic Coordination ) and in the Department of Medical Genetics.

31 ANA COSTA FREİTAS

Prof. Ana Costa Freitas is the Rector of the University of Évora (Portugal), elected on April 23rd 2014 and re-elected for a second term on March 22nd 2018. She has been Associate Professor with Aggregation in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Évora, since 2004. She received an engineering degree in Agronomy from the Institute Superior of Agronomy (School of Agriculture), UTL (former Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, current University of Lisbon), completed her PhD in Food Biotechnology by the University of Évora in 1988, and in 2002 obtained the Habilitation in Chromatographic Methods applied to the Food Industry by the same University. Her area of expertise is Chromatography, Sensory Analysis, Enantioselectivae and multidimensional chromatography, and Analysis of flavors. Currently, her research is especially directed towards the analysis of Mediterranean food products with special emphasis on wines and olive oils; identification of compounds present in the extract of the aroma and determining the relationship between the chemical compounds and sensory impact; identification of enantiomers, determination of enantiomeric excess using enantioselective chromatography; application of chirality in determining the authenticity and fraud detection; limits of detection and olfacto detection of enantiomers; the relationship with the aroma of food products; and the usage of comprehensive multidimensional chromatography. She participated in many research projects and scientific meetings and authored numerous publications both in national and international peer review journals. Since August 2015, she is a high-level expert of Horizon 2020 Policy Support Facility (PSF) and between 2011 and 2013 she worked as Adviser in the Bureau of European Policy Advisers of the European Commission. At the University of Évora she occupied many important positions: Member of the General Council of the University of Évora (December 2012 - October 2013), Vice-Rector, responsible for the Academic sector (2006- 2010), Vice-President of the Scientific Council of the University of Évora (2005-2006), Vice-President of the Institute of Mediterranean Agricultural Sciences (2004-2006), Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Department of Agricultural Sciences (2004-2005), Vice-President of the Scientific Council of the Department of Agricultural Sciences (2004- 2006), president of the Department of Plant Sciences (2004-2006). She was also the Director of Research in Bioorganic and Analytical Chemistry of the Chemistry Department of the Center of Fine Chemistry and Biotechnology (CQFB - Centro de Química Fina e Biotecnologia) of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, between 1999-2002.

32 KERSTİN THAM

Professor Kerstin Tham is since November 1st 2015 Vice Chancellor of Malmö University, Sweden. She previously served as Deputy Vice Chancellor at Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm. She has extensive experience from academic leadership positions and Malmö University is now proud to have appointed its first female Vice Chancellor.

Professor Tham has a degree in Occupational Therapy, and doctoral (phd) degree in Neurology (1998). She was appointed as full professor in Occupational therapy in 2009.

Her research focuses on aspects of rehabilitation after stroke and the overall aim is to build knowledge, develop and evaluate person-centered health services for people with stroke and their families. Professor Tham has conducted internationally unique research identifying the lived experience of individuals with neuropsychological impairments after stroke, as unilateral neglect, by applying an occupational science perspective. The research has contributed to the development of new models, methods and strategies for rehabilitation after stroke.

A world where diversity, knowledge and creativity are transformed into action for sustainable community development.

Professor Tham says there is a genuine social commitment at Malmö University, and a willingness to contribute to a better world. The university has fostered a very creative environment and has a close relationship with the City of Malmö as well as Region Skåne and the international community. The university’s core values of diversity, creativity, quality and social commitment are expressed both in words and action by both students and staff.

“After my first two years, I see Malmö University as a unique diamond in the rough, with a multitude of small sparkling gems that we have good opportunities to put together to create a glittering crown. The university is in a prime position to take the lead and create new paradigms within both education and research”

LIISA LAAKSO

Doctor of Social Sciences Liisa Laakso started in her post as the Rector of the University of Tampere on 1 January 2016. Laakso was born in Rovaniemi, Finland, and earned her doctorate at the University of Helsinki in 2000. She has worked, among others, as Professor of International Development at the University of Jyväskylä and Professor of World Politics at the University of Helsinki. In 2010-2015, Laakso worked as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki. Laakso is an expert on world politics and international development cooperation. Her research interests include, among others, the democratisation of Africa; the Middle East and Asia; and the development policies and crisis management of the EU and Finland.

33 PAMELA GILLIES

Professor Pamela Gillies CBE, has been President and Vice-Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University since 2006. She is a member and trustee of many boards including: the Board of Trustees of the British Council from 2008 to 2014 and currently the Global Advisory Board of the African Leadership University, Board of the Grameen Scotland Foundation and of the Grameen Caledonian College of Nursing. Pamela was awarded the honor of CBE for services to education and public health in December 2012. She is an elected Fellow of a number of professional bodies including the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians of London and was elected to Scotland’s National Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in 2015. Past work experience includes: Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Nottingham, the World Health Organisation’s Global Programme on AIDS (1989-90) and as the first Executive Director of Research at the Health Education Authority for England (1996-99). She is a founding patron of a school for children of sex workers in Domjur, Kolkata and has researched and written widely on HIV/AIDS, health development, and inequalities in health focusing on the potential of social action for health.

SARA MORENO

Tenure-track lecturer in the Department of Sociology of the UAB and researcher in the Centre for Sociological Studies on Everyday Life and Work (QUIT-UAB) and the Institute for Labour Studies (IET-UAB). She was Vice Dean of Professionalization at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the UAB from 2009 to 2015 and is currently Vice Dean of Institutional Relations. Her academic career began in 2002 when she was a grantholding trainee researcher (FPI) in QUIT. In September 2007 defended her PhD thesis “Time, work and welfare: an approach from everyday life”, which merited the Special Prize of the Department of Sociology. Over the years she has spent a pre- doctoral research period at the Cambio research centre of the University of Florence and a postdoctoral research period at the Centre for International Business Studies at the University of the South Bank in London. Her lines of research and transfer are framed within the sociological field of work, the sociology of time and the sociology of gender. Specifically, she specialises in the analysis of work, time and everyday life, with a focus on social inequalities, welfare and public policies. As a researcher she has been continually involved in competitive research projects and has directed and taken part in research and transfer agreements in collaboration with leading public and private institutions in the field of social sciences, such as the Institute of Statistics for Catalonia (IDESCAT), the Catalan Institute for Women, the Institute of Regional and Metropolitan Studies of Barcelona, the ”La Caixa” Foundation and the Jaume Bofill Foundation, among others. She has several articles published and is a reviewer for specialised journals in her areas of knowledge, has been an evaluator for competitive projects, been a panel member for research prizes and is a member of the Sociology of Labour Research Committee of the Spanish Sociology Federation

34 TERESA PIZARRO BELEZA

Prof. Teresa Pizarro Beleza is Full Professor at NOVA University, Lisbon.

She graduated in Law and became an academic shortly after. She taught and did research on Criminal law and Women’s Law in Coimbra, Lisbon, Cambridge and Venice (EIUC). She initiated the teaching and research on Women’s rights in Portugal, where she taught “Women’s Law” for the first time in 1998-1999, after being invited to join the new (1997) Faculdade de Direito (Law School) of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (www.fd.unl.pt). Her PhD thesis, on Women in the Criminal Law, was a daring and innovative feminist approach to Women’s Law and Criminology in Portugal. She opened up the way for many other younger lawyers and students who went on to doing research in such areas.

She has published and taught extensively on Criminal Law and on Women’s Law and Women’s Rights, both at pre- and post- graduate level. She has supervised Master and PhD dissertations on Criminal Law, Human Rights, including Prisoners’ and Women’s Rights, both in Portugal and in Venice (E.Ma, www.eiuc.org) and served as external examiner elsewhere.

She served at the CPT (Prevention of Torture, Council of Europe) as an elected member in respect of Portugal; and she also participated as an expert in the EU-China and EU-Iran Dialogues in Human Rights.

She serves currently as Dean of the Law School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

LOTTA STRANDBERG

Lotta Strandberg is a Senior Adviser at NordForsk. NordForsk is an organisation that facilitates and provides funding for Nordic research cooperation and research infrastructure. She is responsible for the implementation of NordForsk’s Gender policy and of NordForsk’s programme Gender Gaps in Research and Innovation.

Prior to NordForsk Dr. Strandberg was employed by the University of Helsinki in Finland and as a Research Co-ordinator for NIKK- Nordic Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Research.

Lotta Strandberg has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Helsinki and a MSc. (Econ) from Hanken - School of Economics.

35 PARTICIPANTS LIST

First Name Last Name Title/Position Institution/Organization Country Iwona Adamiec-Wójcik Vice Rector University of Bielsko-Biala Poland Giuli Alasania President University of Georgia Georgia Paraskevi A. Pataka Vice Rector Aristotle Uni. of Thessaloniki Greece Ayşın Baytan Ertüzün Vice Rector Bogazici University Turkey Hulya Caglayan Secretary General EWORA Turkey Anna C. Soyta Vice Rector Wrocław Uni. of Env.&Life Sci. Poland Ana Costa Freitas Rector University of Evora Portugal Rita Coutinho Comm. & Ext. Relations NOVA School of Law Portugal Cristiana Cristureanu Rector Dimitrie Cantemir Christian Uni. Romania Marta Cruz Student NOVA School of Law Portugal Elif Çepni Former Rector Dogus University Turkey Anne de Paepe Pro Rector Ghent University Belgium Rosemary Deem Vice Principal Royal Holloway UK Corina Dumitrescu President Dimitrie Cantemir Christian Uni. Romania Danuta Dziawgo Vice Rector Nicolaus Copernicus University Poland Caroline Fennell Senior Vice President University College Cork Ireland Carmen Fenoll BoD Member, EWORA Uni. of Castilla-La Mancha Spain Elisabeth Freismuth Rector Uni. of Music&Performing Arts Graz Austria Mine G. Tan SAB Member, EWORA Ankara University Turkey Marine Ghazaryan Vice Rector Nat. Uni.of Arch.&Construction Armenia Isabel Gil Rector University Católica Portuguesa Portugal Pamela Gillies Vice Chancellor Glasgow Caledonian University UK Esra Hatipoğlu Rector Nisantasi University Turkey Manuel Heitor Minister for Science, Tech. & HE Government of Portugal Portugal Helene H. Knutsson Minister for HE & Research Government of Sweden Sweden Liisa Husu SAB Member, EWORA Örebro University Sweden Kristin Ingolfsdottir BoD Member, EWORA University of Iceland Iceland Despoina Klavanidou Vice Rector Aristotle Uni. of Thessaloniki Greece

36 Şule Kut Rector Okan University Turkey Isabel L. Nunes Pro Rector University of Lisbon Nova Portugal Liisa Laakso Rector University of Tampere Finland Torunn Lauvdal Former Rector University of Agder Norway Teresa Lloyd Braga Vice Rector University Católica Portuguesa Portugal Klas-Herman Lundgren Ministry for HE & Research Government of Sweden Sweden Fatima Marinho Vice Rector University of Porto Portugal Margarida Martins Student NOVA School of Law Portugal Ramona Mihaila Vice Rector Dimitrie Cantemir Christian Uni. Romania Lisa Mooney Pro Vice-Chancellor University of East London UK Sara Moreno Vice Rector Uni. Autònoma de Barcelona Spain Sofia Morgado Professor of Architecture University of Lisbon Portugal Louise Morley SAB Member, EWORA University of Sussex UK Alparslan Nas Assist. Professor Marmara University Turkey Helena Nazare BoD Member, EWORA Uniersity of Aveiro Portugal Ursula Nelles BoD Member, EWORA University of Munster Germany Katrin Niglas Vice Rector Talinn University Estonia Anamaria Oanta Univ. President's Counselor Dimitrie Cantemir Christian Uni. Romania Emellin Oliveira PhD Student NOVA School of Law Portugal Helena Pereira Vice President Foundation for Sci. & Tech. Portugal Helena Pereira de Melo Vice Dean NOVA School of Law Portugal Rosalina Pisco Costa Pro Rector University of Evora Portugal Teresa Pizarro Beleza Dean NOVA School of Law Portugal Beata Przyborowska Vice Rector Nicolaus Copernicus University Poland Birgitt Reigraf President Paderborn University Germany João Sàágua Rector University of Lisbon Nova Portugal Gulsun Saglamer President, EWORA Istanbul Technical University Turkey Ahmet Saglamer Professor Emeritus Istanbul Technical University Turkey Manana Sanadze President University of Georgia Georgia Inés S. de Madariaga SAB Member, EWORA Technical University of Madrid Spain

37 Anne Scott Vice President National Uni. of Ireland, Galway Ireland Funda S. Şerifoğlu Former Rector Duzce University Turkey Lotta Strandberg Senior Adviser NordForsk Norway Turgut Tan Dean, Fact. of Law Bilkent University Turkey Şirin Tekinay Vice Rector Sabancı University Turkey Kerstin Tham Vice Chancellor Malmö University Sweden Renáta Tomášková Vice Rector University Of Ostrava Czech Rp. Christina Ullenius BoD Member, EWORA Karlstad University Sweden Mieke Van Herreweghe Vice Rector Ghent University Belgium Krista Varantola Vice President, EWORA University of Tampere Finland

38 CLOSING REMARKS

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