How to Promote Equality?
Celebrating Women Leaders in EDI
Event: Online panel discussion
Date: March (online event)
Overview
This online panel celebrates women who are leading the charge in promoting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) within cognitive science and related fields. The event showcases concrete actions and initiatives that have been successfully implemented across institutions, countries, and disciplines.
By sharing these experiences, the panel aims to inspire and empower attendees to replicate similar actions within their own research areas, departments, and national contexts, thereby helping to promote EDI more widely across academia.
Panelists bring unique perspectives and operate at different institutional and international levels, ensuring a rich and insightful discussion.
Panelists
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Professor Mª Carmen Herrera
Vice-Dean of Students and Equality and Full Professor, Faculty of Psychology, University of Granada, Spain.
Member of the VIGIA association (Gender Violence, Intervention, and Counseling) and collaborator in the UGR Program for Psychosocial Intervention for minors and their mothers who are victims of gender violence. -
Dr Tahnée Engelen
Post-doctoral researcher, Subjectivity, Brain & Viscera Lab, École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, France.
Founder and lead of the EDI committee at the Département d’Études Cognitives, ENS, including initiatives such as a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to increase the visibility of women scientists. -
Professor Marisa Matias
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Psychology, University of Porto, Portugal.
Actively involved in social psychology and gender studies, and a participant in the EU-funded RESET project (Redesigning Equality and Scientific Excellence Together). -
Professor Željka Krsnik
Associate Professor of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia, and Assistant Director at the Croatian Institute for Brain Research.
Chair of the ALBA Network, a global initiative advocating for EDI in brain sciences.
Practical information
Participants will receive an email with the link to join the meeting one day before the event.
For any questions or issues, please contact:
wics.europe@gmail.com
Organization
Organized and chaired by:
Dr Nura Sidarus, Lecturer in Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London; Affiliate Member of
the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK.
Facilitated by:
Dr Marta Rivera Zurita, Spanish, Modern and Classical Philology Department, University of the
Illes Balears, Spain.
Conceived by:
Women in Cognitive Science – Europe (WiCS-E), with thanks to the support of Dr Laura Sjoberg and
the Gender Institute, Royal Holloway University of London.
More information and registration:
Event information page