ISP and Gender
ISP envisions that women and men in supported research groups and networks should have equal opportunities to achieve their full potential in scientific research. ISP is working to create awareness of the gender biases and to increase women's participation in scientific research to the same level as men's.
Fighting the gender gap in science
Professor Carla Puglia, Programme Director ISP Physics:
- An important goal of the ISP is to increase the representation of women in the basic sciences physics, mathematics and chemistry. To do this, you need to work at all levels – from primary school all the way through to doctoral education. Just getting more students at all into mathematics and physics at university level requires significant inputs during the early school years.
Gender network - EANWoBAS
The Eastern Africa Network for Women in the Basic Sciences (EANWoBAS) consists of students and staff members in mathematics and physics from universities in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
The network receives ISP funding from 2019, and is the first ISP supported network of this kind.
ISP gender equality grants
In 2015 ISP introduced ear-marked extra funds for activities promoting an increased gender equality and balance in mathematics and physics at the supported institutions; i.e. the ISP Gender Equality Grants.
Examples of activities are summer schools for high school students, PhD scholarships for female candidates, mentorship programs, tuition fees for MSc students, and workshops for university students and personnel.
ISP gender summer school
In 2016, Female scientists from ISP supported activities met each other for the first time at an ISP gender summer school and had the chance to discuss gender on a multi-disciplinary level.
The gathering was jointly organised by ISP, Department of Physics at Uppsala University and Freie Universität Berlin (Germany).
Contact at ISP
Professor Carla Puglia, Programme Director
E-mail: carla.puglia@isp.uu.se