Guest Talk for the Relaunch of the Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group - Gender Diversity at Work

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Light refreshments will be served. Guest Speaker: Prof. Ingela Nyström, University of Uppsala, Sweden Title: Gender Diversity at Work – the Case at Centre for Image Analysis at Uppsala University Abstract: In this talk, I will present my lab from the perspective of gender and diversity. In today’s society, many organisations have gender diversity on their agenda. So also Uppsala University, the first university in Sweden, where we aim for gender balance and diversity in all activities in order to achieve a higher quality at all levels of the organization. To reach this, we specifically encourage applicants of any gender and with different birth background, functionality, and life experience in our recruitments. However, good recruitment statistics is not a result per se. I will also give my views on how our academic leadership foster mixed environments, where job satisfaction – and thereby higher scientific quality - is reached independent of gender. In fact, we as leaders are role models who either become (or do not become) successful in recruiting, promoting, and thereby retaining women. I welcome all seminar participants to discuss this matter and share your experiences with me.