GENOVATE
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Work Package: [WP4: Working
environment and culture change]
Deliverable [D4.1: Online Learning
Package on gender competent leadership
and management]
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Project acronym:
GENOVATE
Project full title:
Transforming organisational culture for gender equality in
research and innovation
Grant number:
321378
Contract type:
Coordination and Support Action: Supporting (CSA-SA)
Work programme
topics addressed:
SiS.2012.2.1.1-1 Ensuring equal opportunities for Women and
men by encouraging a more gender-aware management in
research and scientific decision-making bodies.
GENOVATE Coordinator:
Uduak Archibong
EU Officer:
Nina Baumeister
Website:
www.genovate.eu
Duration
January 2013 to December 2016
Deliverable [D4.1]
Delivered by:
Nature:
Dissemination level:
Planned:
Actual:
Ankara University and Consortium
e-Learning Package
Public
April 2015
30 April 2015
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Contents Page
Background................................................................................................................... 4
Scope ................................................................................................................................ 4
Deliverable ..................................................................................................................... 5
Section 1: What is Gender Competent Leadership?................................ 5
Section 2: Why is there a Lack of Diversity in Leadership? .................. 5
Section 3: Tackling Unconscious Bias in the Workplace ....................... 5
Section 4: How to Overcome the Barriers .................................................... 5
The Content Structure ........................................................................................... 6
Conclusion .................................................................................................................... 6
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Background
GENOVATE is an action-research project which aims to ensure equal opportunities
for women and men by encouraging a more gender-competent management in research,
innovation and scientific decision-making bodies, with a particular focus on universities.
The project is based on the implementation of Gender Equality Action Plans
(GEAPs) in six European universities and brings together a consortium with
diverse experience in gender mainstreaming approaches. All consortium partners
come from different disciplinary backgrounds and have different national context.
However, each of the institutions shares common challenges for gender equality in
research and innovation, and all have identified three common areas for intervention:
  Recruitment, progression and research support 
  Working environment, work-life balance and institutional culture 
 Gender and diversity dimensions of research excellence and innovation 
Scope
This deliverable is directed towards developing a gender competent leadership and
management to enhance leadership capacity in higher education and research
institutions. It is an online learning package (e-learning package), designed to
provide a broad overview of issues on gender responsible leadership for senior
leaders and managers and other academics in leadership and management
positions as well as candidates for managerial positions in academia.
By contextualizing the significance of gender equality for academic leadership, the
e_learning package is aiming to provide a better working environment for all
researchers and academic staff. It displays why gender equality matters for good
leadership and how to promote gender equality in academia. The package also
informs users of the basic and vital principles of gender equality for leaders and
managers.
Work package 4 is one of the three core packages of the GENOVATE project
directed towards empowering academic working culture and climate in favour of
gender equality. The learning package is a part of this empowerment in academic
institutions, which also has a potential for sustainability of culture change.
The scope of this package mainly consists of the resources for refining the leaders’
understanding of gender responsible leadership in academic institutions.
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GENOVATE Gender Competent Leadership e-Learning Package is prepared with
contributions from all 6 core partners; UNIBRAD, UCC; LTU, AU, UNINA and TU.
Ankara University led the development and is responsible for making the package
available to the end users within academic structures and research institutions. The
package will also be useful for academic staff in non - managerial positions in raising
awareness on gender responsible leadership in academic institutions.
The e-Learning package consists of 4 sections:
Section 1: What is Gender Competent Leadership?
This section aims to provide the participants an overview of the gender issues in
terms of academic leadership within our universities. Gender inequalities in
academia and challenging outcomes of these inequalities are summarized here. By
doing that this part provides an understanding of the importance of transformation in
our working environment towards a more egalitarian, gender sensitive institution.
Section 2: Why is there a Lack of Diversity in Leadership?
This section seeks to discuss the reasons for a lack of diversity in leadership in
particular, it will provide theoretical explanations for why there are so few women
leaders in academia in the context of gender and diversity. The conventional
leadership arguments will be reviewed briefly and new approaches will be introduced
next. Then we will draw attention to the institutional and structural issues as well as
mechanisms underlying the lack of women and lack of diversity: the gendered nature
of academia e.g. career paths and discipline; issues of power; gender stereotypes;
institutional structures; impact of imbalances in terms of work and home life; peer
review process among other reasons.
Section 3: Tackling Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
This section is devoted to discussions and conceptual frameworks on unconscious
bias. The section is divided into five subsections - Related research on
unconscious bias, understanding unconscious bias; addressing unconscious bias;
some case studies; personal reflections; and additional materials comprising critical
evaluation of the role of unconscious bias and outcomes of unconscious bias.
Section 4: How to Overcome the Barriers
Once the users are provided an understanding of the structural issues and
mechanisms underpinning the lack of diversity in academia regarding leadership,
this section provides potential strategies and interventions to overcome the barriers
drawing on case studies from GENOVATE core institutions.
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The Content Structure
Each Section contains:
 PowerPoint slides sharing highlights of the research and information
on gender competent leadership. 
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 Videos and other interactive materials. 
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 Readings, links and resources for further study. 
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 A glossary of key terms. 
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 Case studies. 
This Online Learning Package allows for flexibility, self-paced, simple to use format.
Each section is designed as stand alone and separate from each other with no
compulsory sequence for users to follow from one section to another continuously.
Although there is a logical and conceptual continuity between the sections, users can
click on their selected section for the content they need or would like to follow at first.
The package is aiming to display the gender competent leadership issues throughout
all aspects. It is not designed to assess the users’ background and what they get
after using the package. This package is designed as a supportive tool not as a
measurement tool.
The interactive structure of the package is at middle level because it is not located
through a virtual learning environment e.g. the Blackboard system. Therefore
reading and visual materials are being more emphasized and forums, discussions or
chats are not provided yet. However the package is hosted on the GENOVATE.eu
website and can be widely accessed at http://www.genovate.eu/modules/gendercompetent-leadership/
We will continue to update the package with new materials throughout the
duration of the project.
Conclusion
Led by AU with contributions from all GENOVATE core partners, we have designed,
and developed an interactive online learning on gender competent leadership and
management targeted at both those in leadership and those aspiring to become
managers in higher education sector and other research institutions.
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