The Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC) is launching a call for candidates for a “gender” chair in one of USPC’s eight constituent institutions: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Université Paris Descartes, Université Paris Diderot, Université Paris 13, École des hautes études en santé publique (EHESP), Institut national des langues Read more…
Description Taking on a critical sociological and feminist postcolonial theories perspective, this workshop wants to examine the politics and structures of exclusion and inclusion at stake in higher education. Our special interest lies in getting to know about ways social inequalities are articulated and intertwined within the institutional practices of Read more…
The quality of higher education and research is strongly connected to the quality of the people working in the academic sector. For excellent science, excellent scientists are needed. The pool of competent scholars with academic career ambitions has been growing for the past decades. As public funding of universities has Read more…
As in most Western countries, research and studies about women’s issues were first developed in France in the wake of the 1970s feminist movement. New international and European dynamics favoured the creation of Gender Studies: the Peking International Conference (1995) as well as pressure in Europe to include “gender” in Read more…
The study was carried out by Elyse Ruest-Archambault with the support of Prof. Nick von Tunzelmann from the Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU) of the University of Sussex, in collaboration with Dr Simona Iammarino from SPRU, Nick Jagger and Dr Linda Miller from the Institute for Employment Studies. Read more…