International Gender for Excellence in Research Conference Proceedings Part 1: Selected Papers and Abstracts June 18-19, 2022

Abstract

This book represents one of the outcomes of the Gender for Excellence in Research EU project which seeks to promote the use of gender and gender theory in a range of disciplines amongst early-stage researchers (the academics of the future). Together the participants in this Early-Stage Research conference presented research from a variety of disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, natural and physical science. Their research through including gender as a concept and/or as a theoretical perspective, demonstrates how gender theory can contribute to expanding our understandings of different scientific phenomena. This project also appeals to the turn in academia towards interdisciplinarity knowledge production by challenging the ways in which knowledge is produced in different disciplines, including natural sciences. The editors of this book would like to thank all the conferences participants, the staff of the Gender and Women Studies Research Centre, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, and all the members of the GenderEx Team, for their contributions to the First Gender for Excellence in Research Conference. Lucia Amaranta Thompson, PhD Candidate, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden Tomas Brage, Division of Mathematical Physics, Dept of Physics, Lund University, Sweden Selma Değirmenci, GenderEx Project Manager, Dr, Gender and Women’s Studies Research Centre, Kadir Has University, Turkey Sara Goodman, Retired Lecturer, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden Mary Lou O’Neil, GenderEx Project Director, Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies Research Centre, Kadir Has University, Turkey