NEWS FEED

DANWISE Prize 2022 Winner
We are delighted to announce our 2022 DANWISE Prize winners! The first winner we would like to declare is Lea Skewes. Lea was selected as the winner based on: 1. Founding and coordinating the Gendering in Research Network at Aarhus University2. Publishing in gender...
Your plans for the 8th of March đ
Today, we celebrate International Womenâs Day and also DANWISEâs three-year anniversary since the official launch. It is therefore also a great day to celebrate some of DANWISEâs achievements. Our DANWISE prize winners were notified that they won today and we canât...
New DANWISE Advisory Board
We are excited to announce that we have three new advisory board members for DANWISE. Henriette Laursen, the director of Kvinfo, Agnete Larsen from the University of Aarhus and Jens Hjorth from the University of Copenhagen and board member of the Carlsberg foundation...

International Women in Science Day
Today we celebrate the international day of girls and women in science. This day is so important to celebrate. We still have a gap to bridge and ceilings to smash! Cheers to all the future (and current) women and science!
DANWISE has a new structure
DANWISE has restructured its board and we have shifted from a chair and a co-chair to a board of directors. We thank Vanessa Hall for her amazing work as chairwoman in the past years and look forward to having her as a director on our board together with two other...
DANWISE prize 2022 nominations open
The subscriptions for the DANWISE prize 2022 are now open. The nomination period is open until 25th February 2022. Nominees can be individual persons, departments, or other functional teams or organizations from one of the Danish Universities, a life science industry,...
DANWISE promotes CV writing and negotiation skills workshop
DANWISE warmly invites all female ECRs to join us for our first online workshop. We will equip participants with the tools to effectively showcase their skills in a CV. Career counselling expert Vibeke Broe will discuss the different formats and expectations for...
Denmark amongst the bottom of European countries: Elsevier report reveals women in research are closing the gender gap globally, but inequality persists
The Researcher Journey Through a Gender Lens shows good news, in that the participation of women in research is increasing, but inequality remains when it comes to for publication outputs, citations, awarded grants, collaboration, and perceptions, and Denmark lies at...
“Having a role model at the early career stage helps”, says Peter Munk Christiansen
An interview with Peter Munk Christiansen, the former chairman of the Independent Research Fund Denmark (Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond) By Ida Vogel and Andrea Toth, from the Danwise Team Recent analytics indicate that less women apply for research grants than men, and...
Gender equality in 2065: We miss more female top researchers (In Danish)
Published originally on "Berlingske" on the 6th March, 2020: Lighed mellem køn i 2065: Vi mangler flere kvindelige topforskere Fra Bente Stallknecht, Vanessa Hall og Ida Vogel* Den danske seismolog Inge Lehmann løser i 1936 en af Jordens største güder. Lehmann...