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DANWISE Prize 2023 Winner
The first winner is Senior Vice President of Novo Nordisk Foundation, Professor Lene Oddershede. Lene was selected as the winner based on: Initiatives established at the Novo Nordisk Foundation to reduce unconscious bias in reviewing committees. Developing the NERD...
Open Nominations for the DANWISE Prize 2023
What is the DANWISE Prize? A yearly prize given by Danish Women in Science (DANWISE) to those who have supported women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, medicine (STEMM), humanities and social sciences fields. The prize can be received by individual...
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 😉
Today, we celebrate International Women’s Day and also DANWISE’s three-year anniversary since the official launch. It is therefore also a great day to celebrate some of DANWISE’s achievements. Our DANWISE prize winners were notified that they won today and we can’t...
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...