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October 2023

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  • 3./10. October: Group coaching sessions ‘Transitioning away from academia’, Zoom
  • 2. November, 10:30 – 12.00: Webinar ‘Managing Conflict’, Zoom
  • 30. November, 10:30 – 12.00: Webinar ‘Navigating Uncertainty’, Zoom
  • 13.+14. November: PlanetS Project management workshop
  • SNF media courses for Postdocs and Senior Reserachers: https://www.snf.ch/en/vHmVpRYYUJYwO6On/funding/science-communication/media-courses.
  • Europlanet’s ‘Expert Exchange’ program aims to support the mobilisation of the planetary community to share expertise and best practice and to prepare new facilities and services. You need to learn a new instrumental technique, get up to date on lab equipment, or learn from an expert? Then you might get funds for an expert of your choice to visit your institute, or you can visit them for up to a week. Info: https://www.europlanet-society.org/europlanet-expert-exchange-programme/

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April 2023

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  • Multiple roles of a supervisor: Tuesday, 4. April, 14-15.30 with https://desireedickerson.com/, Zoom link: see email
  • Special career seminar: Tuesday, 4. April, 14.00-15.00, with Dr. Pushkar Kopparla, see email (organised by Pushkar Kopparla and Susanne Wampfler)
  • Leadership workshop: Thursday, 4. May, whole day at UniBe, start at 9.30, more details will follow
  • SNF media courses for Postdocs and Senior Reserachers: https://www.snf.ch/en/vHmVpRYYUJYwO6On/funding/science-communication/media-courses.
  • Europlanet’s ‘Expert Exchange’ program aims to support the mobilisation of the planetary community to share expertise and best practice and to prepare new facilities and services. You need to learn a new instrumental technique, get up to date on lab equipment, or learn from an expert? Then you might get funds for an expert of your choice to visit your institute, or you can visit them for up to a week. Info: https://www.europlanet-society.org/europlanet-expert-exchange-programme/

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February 2019

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  • 18. February: Abstract submission deadline (see call) for the next I, Scientist conference in Berlin, September, 20-21th
  • 21. February, UniBe: Conference&Round table: Which Diversity Initiatives Work? Thirty Years of Evidence from U.S. Employers by Prof. Frank Dobbin: https://www.wiso.unibe.ch/unibe/portal/fak_wiso/content/e58/e738680/e770046/DiversityManagement_Flyer_30012019_definitiv_ger.pdf
  • 17. April, Universität Bern: «Bring-the-Kids-to-Work-Day»
  • 8.-12. July, Université de Genève: Prejudice, Discrimination, and the Diversity Challenge
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December 2018

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  • Poetry-Slam “Männer* und Gleichstellung”
    30. November 2018, UZH Irchel, Zurich: Ein Poetry-Slam in der Irchelbar mit Texten zum Thema Gender, Feminismus und Männlichkeiten*: Veranstaltungswebseite
    https://www.gleichstellung.uzh.ch/de/veranstaltungen/maenner_und_gleichstellung/poetry_slam.html
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October 2018

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August 2018

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  • 17. September, Zürich: ‘Life balance’: http://www.gleichstellung.uzh.ch/de/angebote/nachwuchsfoerderung/postdocworkshops2018/lifebalance.html
  • 27. September, Zürich: ‘Trans* an der UZH- was bedeutet das?’: http://www.gleichstellung.uzh.ch/de/veranstaltungen/transidentitaet.html
  • 2. October, Geneva: ‘Réflexions et débat autour des stereotypes’: https://www.facebook.com/events/2004264806274603/
  • 4. October, Zürich: ‘WHO CARES? 2018 Meeting group for UZH postdocs and PhD students with children’: https://www.gleichstellung.uzh.ch/de/veranstaltungen/whocares.html
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June 2018

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  • 4/5 June, St.Gallen University: Engendering Academia: Emotions, Strategies and Alternatives (registration deadline tomorrow): https://genderportal.unisg.ch/de/aktuell/june-2018-conference
  • 11. June, Bern: Lunchtalk ‘Die Macht ambivalenter Allianzen-Chancengleichheit und Exzellenzdiskurs im Widerstreit’: https://www.gendercampus.ch/en/news/events/die-macht-ambivalenter-allianzen-chancengleichheit-und-exzellenzdiskurs-im-widerstreit/
  • 16/17 June, Zürich: The first women-friendly hackathon in Switzerland: (registration deadline tomorrow) http://www.hackandlead.com/
  • Future events, see https://www.gendercampus.ch/en/news/events/page/2/
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April 2018

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  • 7.-8.June, Basel: “Men, Gender and Development”: https://www.gendercampus.ch/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/save-the-date-international-conference-on-men-gender-and-development-policy-debates-and-good-pra/
  • 14.-15.June, Uni Zürich: LERU Gender Conference: http://www.gleichstellung.uzh.ch/de/veranstaltungen/leru_conference.html
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February 2018

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  • 15.March, St.Gallen: Zeitdiagnose Männlichkeiten in der Schweiz https://www.gendercampus.ch/en/news/events/zeitdiagnose-maennlichkeiten-in-der-schweiz/
  • PlanetS courses spring semester 2018: http://nccr-planets.ch/planets-courses-list/
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December 2017

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  • 1. December 2017, Zurich, UZH, RAA-G-15, 12am: Film ‘Difret- das Mädchen Hirut’: http://www.philnat.unibe.ch/about_us/gender_equality/measures/index_eng.html
  • 7. December 2017, Fribourg: Familles. Nouvelles réalités sociales, nouveaux défis politiques
  • 7. December 2017, UniL:
    Sexe, santé et violences: penser les politiques du consentement (États-Unis, 1980 à nos jours)
  • 7. December 2017, Bern: Sprechen wir darüber. Cybermobbing gegen Mädchen und junge Frauen (Bern)
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December 2016

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  • 1.12.2016 ‘Invested in Equality’: Dr Michael Kimmel engages Geneva’s leaders https://www.gendercampus.ch/fr/aktuell/veranstaltungen/item?item=1536
  • 1.12.2016 Empowerment für Frauen sich für ihre Rechte einzusetzen https://www.gendercampus.ch/de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/item?item=1509
  • 26.1.2017: Swiss Gender in Physics Day in Geneva, https://indico.cern.ch/event/525539/timetable/#20170126
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October 2016

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  • (e.g.) 10.11.2016: Academic career talks: http://www.grc.uzh.ch/en/events/careertalks.html
 
 
  • 14.11.2016: Women and Leadership in Academia, Conference, Zürich: https://www.gendercampus.ch/de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/item?item=1391
  • Academic English course for doctoral students (and other language courses) at UniBe: http://www.unibe.ch/studies/degree_programs/language_courses/aes/english_for_doctoral_students/index_eng.html
  • Are you interested in entrepreneurship? http://mitte.cti-entrepreneurship.ch/kurs/praxiskurs-business-creation-bern-2-2-2-2/ 
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  • Hidden figures – the not white male scientist: https://thinkprogress.org/hidden-figures-long-time-coming-db9ed029d5bb#.1rdgkgcft
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  • The diversity of career trajectories available to astronomers both inside and outside of academia: https://aas.org/jobs/career-profiles

August 2016

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  • ETH Ferienplausch Angebote für Kinder (in German):
 
 
  • 09.09.2016: Berufsorientierung, Geschlecht und Schule, Fachtagung, Bern: https://www.gendercampus.ch/de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/item?item=1390
 
  • 14.11.2016: Women and Leadership in Academia, Conference, Zürich: https://www.gendercampus.ch/de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/item?item=1391
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  • Courses/Coachings at ETH Zurich: https://www.ethz.ch/services/en/employment-and-work/leadership-and-development/human-resources-courses/courses-by-topic.html
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  • Why pursue the Postdoc path? http://www.ucdenver.edu/faculty-staff/postdoctoral/for-students/Documents/post%20doc%20paths.pdf
 
 
 
 
 
 
  • Don’t give in to impostor syndrome!  https://uofa.ualberta.ca/news-and-events/newsarticles/2016/june/professor-dame-jocelyn-bell-burnell-honorary-doctor-of-science

June 2016

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  • The IoP (Institute of Physics) twitter feed, asking physicists to tweet photos of themselves doing physics, to showcase the diversity
of people and kinds of work that make up physics: https://twitter.com/hashtag/iamaphysicist?src=hash
 
  • The science of gender differences in science/mathematics: http://www.equal.ethz.ch/news/halpern_etal_2007_Sci_of_sex_diff
 
  • How to best encourage girls in science and maths: http://www.equal.ethz.ch/news/halpern_etal_2007_encouraging_girls
 
  • Recommendation to fight/prevent sexual harassment in academia: https://www.gendercampus.ch/de/aktuell/news/item?item=805
 
  • What are the career prospects for Solar and Space Physics PhDs?
  https://eos.org/research-spotlights/can-solar-and-space-physics-students-find-research-careers
 
  • How persistent are Solar and Space Physics PhDs to pursue a research career?
  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016SW001382/pdf
 
 
  • Open letter about the hiring of French astronomers (in French):
  https://medium.com/@astronomers/lettre-ouverte-aux-membres-du-jury-du-cnap-e8da05af9725#.wqrtjw7g4

April 2016

New articles of interest:
1. Less women in fields where “raw talent or brilliance” seen as important for success:
https://www.princeton.edu/~sjleslie/Frontiers2015.pdf

2. Importance of civility in academia:
http://chronicle.com/article/Halting-Academic-Incivility/235680

3. How to learn positive critical feedback for others’ work:
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.ch/2016/03/on-my-side-creating-supportive-research.html

4. Five mistakes we make when we read different sources:
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/five-biggest-reading-mistakes-and-how-avoid-them

5. What Google learned about teams that work well together:

6. How our definitions of success can cause problems:

Men, Women, and Our Limiting Mythology of Success

Events:
From UZH

http://www.gleichstellung.uzh.ch/de/angebote/nachwuchsfoerderung/postdocworkshops1.html

http://www.snf.ch/en/researchinFocus/newsroom/Pages/news-160205-who-wants-to-work-with-a-monastic-workaholic.aspx

UniGe

https://www.unige.ch/rectorat/egalite/evenement/actualites/7-avril/

UniBe
http://www.unibe.ch/aktuell/uniaktuell/das_online_magazin_der_universitaet_bern/uniaktuell_ab_2015/rubriken/universitaet/praeventionskampagne_gegen_sexuelle_belaestigung/index_ger.html

February 2016

Welcome to the new year. We are re-booting this e-mail in two major ways:

(1) we will be sending it, every other month, to everyone in the NCCR PlanetS, and (2) it will include topics in Equal Opportunities, Professional Development, and Teaching. We hope you find at least one item of use.

Equal Opportunities

1.  “Girls should expect poorer physics grades”

Secondary school physics teachers with little teaching experience handed out significantly poorer grades to girls than boys for the exact same performance. This was the conclusion drawn by an ETH learning specialist from a study she conducted in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2016/01/poorer-physics-grades-for-girls.html

2. A new report about women postdoctoral students with children, their supervisors,  and work-life balance comes out:

https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/associates/services/Anstellung-Arbeiten/chancengleichheit/Strategie_und_Zahlen/monitoring-und-studien/Studien/Abschlussbericht_Pilotstudie_ETH_Vereinbarkeit.pdf

3. ETH workshop: Gender Diversity at ETH: How to create an inclusive environment 10 March 2016: https://eth-wpf.ch/ethwpf_event/gender-diversity-at-eth-how-to-create-an-inclusive-environment/

4. Equal Opportunity events in Geneva:

http://www.unige.ch/rectorat/egalite/programmes/regard/5.<http://www.unige.ch/rectorat/egalite/programmes/regard/5>

Professional Development

5. The slides for both the Implicit Bias

(http://nccr-planets.ch/equal-opportunity-events/) and Career

(http://nccr-planets.ch/professional-development/) workshops at the General Assembly are now up. Go look at them, relive the moments, and let us know what you thoughts – what was useful, what was not, and what you would like to see in the future…(

http://nccr-planets.ch/forum/planets-forum/)

Teaching
This third topic is related to instruction, specifically to methods that have been shown to engage learners more deeply in a classroom setting, which, in turn, can help a more diverse range of learners participate.

Sometimes we will post an article or blog entry here, but in recognition of the new semester starting soon, today we begin with a few simple tips.

6. Getting students to speak up:

A talking student is an engaged student (and rarely a sleeping student). However, everyone who has ever stood in front of an audience and said “let me know if you have any questions” knows that this rarely produces the results they hoped for. But there are some simple tricks for getting a class of students talking:

a.      Start from the first day. This is the day where the rules and expectations get set, for instructor and students, and it is the best chance you have of getting a more active class. The students come in to the class not sure of how anything will work and you get to set the tone. So, if you want people to speak regularly in class, say it on the first day, and then say that you actually mean it, and then act in a way that backs this up.

b.      Ask your first question to the class early in the hour and then tell them you will wait until at least 3 people have spoken up. And then wait. Human psychology means that people tend to get nervous with too much silence, so wait for 15, 20 or 30 seconds at least. Count this on your watch. If no one speaks, smile, and reiterate that you’ll wait.

c.       Take at least 3 responses and don’t single out ones you consider “wrong.” And don’t stop as soon as you get a “right” answer. Let students come up with many ideas first and don’t judge those answers until a number of people have spoken.

d.      Ask open-ended questions, that require an answer more complex than “yes” or “no.” The hidden contract that most of us learners follow is that the instructor wants us to understand what he or she just said. So the answer we think we are supposed to give to “Are there any questions?” is “No.”

e.      Student engagement and learning increase with any kind of talking, not just when they speak to the whole class and instructor. This means that the much less intimidating experience of speaking to just one person sitting next to you is also a good way to get a class to speak. Ask an open-ended question to the class and then tell them to discuss with the person next to them for 2 min. And then tell them you expect the room to get loud. At the end of the time (or when the noise starts to die down) you can ask for questions from the room or continue your lecture.

If you have any questions, or would like to share your experiences with these tips, please let us know by e-mail or post on the PlanetS forum (http://nccr-planets.ch/forum/planets-forum/).

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