Equal Opportunity Events
(For reimbursements for travels to and from Academic Platform workshops, please use the following form (you must be logged in to view/download it): http://nccr-planets.ch/reimbursement-for-travels-to-and-from-academic-platform-workshops)
April 2024: Presentation at the annual General Assembly ‘Gender equality in science’ (Prof. Paul Walton)
December 2023: Lunchtime webinar ‘Why we need inclusive language’ (Prof. Anatol Stefanowitsch)
December 2023: Workshop ‘Ensuring a fair hiring process’ for project leaders (Prof. Tomas Brage)
May 2023: Leadership management workshop for PlanetS group leaders
March/April 2023
Webinar series with https://desireedickerson.com/, Dr. Desiree Dickerson (Neuroscience/Psychology) and Dr. Vicent Botella-Soler (Physics/Neuroscience):
- Thursday, 2. March, 10.30-12: Parenting in Academia (90min)
- Monday, 13. March, 10.30-12: Leading a team (90min)
- Tuesday, 14. March, 10.30-12: Transitioning away from academia (90min)
- Tuesday, 21. March: 9.00-17.00: Resilience & Well-being (full day), only open to PhD students and Postdocs
- Tuesday, 4. April, 14-15.30: Multiple roles of a supervisor (90min
January 2023
Workshop with Dr. sc. ETH Ariane Orosz, Centre for Stress-Related Illnesses, Sanatorium Kilchberg; Translational Neuromodeling Unit, UZH and ETH Zurich, see presentation here (you must be logged in.)
January 2023
Workshop with Daniela Hansen (ETHZ ‘Fix the leaky pipeline’, diversity office) ‘Inclusion and welcoming behaviour in everyday social interactions’, see presentation here (you must be logged in.)
December 2022
Workshop with Dr. Nilima Chowdhury ‘How to survive in science – tools for well-being, see presentation here (you must be logged in.)
December 2018 & June 2019, Bern
For the first time, we organised a 2-day workshop for our senior scientists on ‘Leadership – and Conflict Management’ to ensure a supportive work environment at PlanetS.
Christian Bachmann held a very informative and useful session with our Professors and Senior Scientists:
January 2018 General Assembly, Grindelwald
Tomas Brage held a very inspiring and informative talk about ‘What does gender have to do with Physics’.
January 2017 General Assembly workshop, Grindelwald
Olga Vinogradova presented a workshop for PlanetS members on ‘Stereotypes’. The slides are available here.
July 23, 11am, ETH Honggerberg,
Presentation and discussion by Prof. Daryl Haggard of Amherst University, USA.
Daryl spoke about the concept of intersectionality, the idea that we each belong to many different groups and that some of those give us privilege. She asked the people attending to think about which of their groups gave them privilege and which did not. Being multiply privileged does not mean you did not work hard to get to where you are, it means that people with less privileges, who worked just as hard as you, probably wouldn’t have made it. The discussion that followed gave the audience a chance to talk about these ideas and ask questions.
January 25, 2016, at PlanetS General Assembly in Grindelwald.
Monday afternoon of the General Assembly was set aside for 3 different workshops, one of which was on an Equal Opportunities theme – Implicit Bias. Our facilitator for this 45 min. workshop was Jérome Oguey, who spoke about sex vs. gender, the traits that people associate with feminine and masculine, and the way brains acquire biased thoughts (both helpful and unhelpful). His presentation is available below.
