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Our Vice President Xiaoran Gao attended the Nettverkskonferansen 2026 at NHH – Norwegian School of Economics.

Research shows that sexual harassment incidents are shockingly high, writes Michelle W. T. Cheng.

Tighter controls over the inclusion of “sexual orientation and gender identity” has been strongly criticised.

In an increasingly polarised society, student activism also tends to be more polarised, writes Hans de Wit.

Students from different backgrounds enrich the university community, writes Ignacio Sánchez.

When the US National Institutes of Health cancelled nearly 2300 ongoing research grants last year.

In Nigeria, 70% of female and 30% of male students have experienced at least one form of gender-based violence (GBV).

In the city I come from in Afghanistan, there is not a single female PhD holder. I had hoped to become the first, writes N. Nikan.

European research institutions have long struggled with gender inequalities.

For centuries, the leadership of universities mirrored the hierarchical and patriarchal structures, writes Min B. Bista.

The post-doctoral student is academically disenfranchised overnight, write Izabella Agardi and Andrea Peto.

But not at professor level, writes Angel Calderon, director at RMIT University, Australia.

The Swedish Association of University Researchers and Teachers (SULF) has raised concerns.
 

Racism is widespread, normalised and structurally embedded across Australia’s university sector.

Only 10% of scientific academies have allocated dedicated budgets to implement them.

Many of the well-intentioned initiatives are failing the very people they aim to help, writes Thais França.