We are a long way from closing the gender gap among Nobel Laureates. Curt Rice, Rector of the Oslo Metropolitan University and Chair of the KIF Committee, explained his solution for this to the Nobel Foundation in Sweden last week.
This year marks 20 years since the first KIF Committee was established. Kifinfo has spoken to three people who have been key to the committee's work during the last ten years.
The article about a new plan against racism at Østfold University College was the most popular one last year.
Our readers were most concerned about the fact that women take on the majority of academic housework – the service work in academia.
“That’s because growing up, I hadn't seen researchers with minority backgrounds in the media, and no one in my social network works in academia,” says Usma Ahmed, a new research fellow at OsloMet.
A new EU report shows how gender and sex analysis can make research better and more creative – including in disciplines that have not yet incorporated them.
The new KIF Committee has been appointed, and for the first time it has a leader team from both a university and a research institute.
A memo with the probing title “What do we know about class in academia?” was recently published. “We know very little about the relationship between social background and an academic career,” says Edvard Nergård Larsen.
Headhunting top international researchers does not necessarily make academia more diverse. Diversity is not achieved by hiring from a pool of academics from well-known US universities, says Mariel Aguilar-Støen.
“My impression is that many PhD students and post-docs get used as workhorses on research projects,” says a former employee representative for researchers.
When universities and university colleges look to increase their ethnic diversity, they often choose the path of internationalization. “In Norway, we are by no means done discussing what diversity really means,” says Beret Bråten.
Ulf Sverdrup, Director of NUPI, is seeking talented researchers among students with immigrant backgrounds. He is calling for a new diversity programme.
Foreign women have flocked to temporary researcher positions in the Nordic countries. Without these women there might have been far fewer female post-docs in Norway and Sweden.
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