RISE congratulates Tinde and Mitra for receiving a prestigous ENW-KLEIN grant for their project proposals, entitled “Hidden crop diversity in Suriname: tracing the origins of Maroon rice by integrating ethnobotany and genomics” (Tinde van Andel) and “Physics-aware Spatio-temporal Machine Learning…
A large study on manuscript submissions at 2347 Elsevier journals found that lock-down measures have penalised women academics (especially later career stages) and benefited men, possibly due to more intense family duties. Click here to download the full paper >>…
On behalf of the Diversity & Inclusion Expertise Office we would like to bring the following to your attention that this fall a support group will be started for survivors of sexual violence, in close collaboration with CARE. The goal…
Today saw the launch of the national action plan to enhance diversity and inclusion in scientific teaching. The plan outlines targets and actions for creating an inclusive, diverse and safe learning and working environment. With this action plan, the Dutch…
“Universities and research institutions worldwide agree that diversity in their laboratories and departments is crucial not only for fostering innovation and different perspectives in research, but also for recruiting female candidates and others from marginalized backgrounds. We are four female…
A study by Belle Derks and colleagues, published in the British Journal of Social Psychology shows that “advanced career female academics are more likely than their male counterparts to underestimate the career commitment of women at the beginning of their…
A recent study by Meyers and colleagues from the Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, published in Nature Human Behaviour, shows that the COVID-19 pandemic has unequally affected research time of male and female scientist. “A survey of principal investigators indicates that…