How to Promote Equality?
Celebrating Women Leaders in EDI

Overview:
This event aims to showcase women who have been working to promote equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) within cognitive science, and who can share with the audience some specific actions they have been leading. We thus hope to inspire and empower the audience to replicate similar actions within their research areas/countries/departments and help promote EDI more widely.

Panel discussants' unique perspectives and roles in promoting EDI on different scales will contribute to a rich and insightful discussion during the event.

Our panel:
Professor Mª Carmen Herrera
Vice-Dean of Students and Equality and Full Professor at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Granada, Spain. She is also a member of the VIGIA association (Gender Violence, Intervention, and Counseling), and collaborates in the UGR Program for Psychosocial Intervention for minors (and their mothers) who are victims of Gender Violence.

Dr Tahnée Engelen
Post-doctoral researcher in the Subjectivity, Brain & Viscera lab at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, France. She has taken the lead in spearheading the EDI committee at the Département d’Études Cognitives, ENS. Noteworthy initiatives under her guidance include organizing a Wikipedia edit-a-thon with the goal of enhancing the representation of women scientists on the platform.

Professor Marisa Matias
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology,University of Porto, Portugal. She is actively involved in the field of social psychology and gender studies. Her commitment extends to participation in the RESET project (Redesigning Equality and Scientific Excellence Together), an EU-funded initiative to co-design and implement Gender Equality Plans in all institutional ecosystems.

Professor Željka Krsnik
Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia and Assistant Director at the Croatian Institute for Brain Research. She is also chair of the ALBA Network which represents a global diverse network of individual neuroscientists who are committed to supporting and advocating for actions and policies that foster EDI in brain sciences across the globe.

Participants will receive an email with a link to join the meeting 1 day before the event. Any other questions or issues, please contact wics.europe@gmail.com

Organized and chaired by Dr Nura Sidarus, Lecturer in Psychology at 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.