Pages

Abstract Guidelines

Volume

250-300 words in English, MS Word for Windows format (.doc)

Font

Times New Roman; font size - 12 pt, single spacing

Title

Bold type, capital letters, Times New Roman, font size - 16 pt

Please note that abstract submissions shall include chosen focus (see list below), name of all co-authors and name and e-mail adress to corresponding author.

Focus

We invite submission of paper proposals focusing on:

1. Extending working lives policies and organizational practices
2. Combining extending working lives with caring and other unpaid commitments
3. Older workers and ageism
4. Older workers and digitalization
5. Older workers and health
6. Older workers and working conditions
7. The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on older workers

Submission Deadline

We invite all abstracts to be submitted via daisie@kau.se by February 21 2021.

The web-based system for abstract submission will open on May 1, 2017, and close on November 1, 2017. Notification of acceptance will be sent out no later than December 15, 2017.

The deadline has passed. The system has closed.  

- This week our partners from the two Japanese universities have been here, says Jorge Solis, associate professor of electronics at Karlstad University. At the same time, Ann-Louise Lindborg, research engineer at Camanio Care AB, our Swedish industrial partner, was here. We've had an intensive week, developing an artificial vision system to monitor food intake. We've also looked at the differences in styles of eating in Sweden and Japan.

Japan and Sweden: Demographic challenges
Japan and Sweden share a positive approach to technology and the challenge of an aging population. But there are two differences: the food presentation on the plate and not least cutlery. The objective is to develop products that will work through inter- and cross-disciplinary cooperation.

- This is my second visit to Sweden, says Cheng Zhang, assistant professor at Waseda university in Tokyo. Last time we were in Stockholm and the climate was milder; I've actually not seen frozen lakes and rivers before and I think it's beautiful here in the winter. This time we have updated how far we have come in our joint project and set goals for the continued development in our joint project, for instance, regarding the vision system.

- I'm a doctoral students and this is my third visit to Sweden, says Takumi Ohashi, from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. I will continue working on this project with Sweden so I might return several times. I really appreciate Swedish nature, Tokyo is very crowded.

- I'll get my Bachelor degree in the spring, says Tomohiro Oka, student at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Then I plan to earn a Master's degree in robot design. At present, I'm involved with developing the eating aid so that it can be equipped with chopsticks instead of a spoon and we look at how the control systems need to be adjusted to different types of food.

Multi-year partnership project
The project that started in 2017 involve developing robot technological aids for elderly people with reduced arm or hand functions. The research takes place in collaboration between industry and researchers in Sweden and Japan and offers student exchange opportunities. In the summer 2017, one of our students on the innovation and design programme spent some time at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. From October 2017, Jorge Solis is a visiting researcher at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

The research is funded by Vinnova and JST, Japan Science and Technology Agency. From February 2018, the project is run by Karlstad University till its conclusion in March 2019. The project members are the Swedish team Karlstad University and the company Camanio Care AB, and the Japanese team, comprising Tokyo Institute of Technology, Waseda University, the company Leave a Nest Co Ltd. and the aid centre in Kakegawa municipality.

Application

• Application period for the Bachelor programme in music: 1 December 2020 - 15 January 2021
• Application period for the Music teacher programme and Music 60 ECTS: 15 March - 15 April 2021
• Application period for the Music production programme: 15 March - 15 April 2021

Entrance tests

Entrance test, Music teacher programme and Music 60/MLC

Test days 3-7 of May  2021. More information will come.

Entrance test, Bachelor programme in music

• Test days 22-26 of February 2021. More information will come.

Entrance test Music production program

• Test days 24-28 of May 2021. More information will come.

Semesters

2020/2021

Autumn semester 2020: 31 August 2020 – 17 January 2021

Spring semester 2021: 18 January – 6 June

Karlstad University was inaugurated on 22 January 1999. As a young university, we wish to preserve a long-standing academic tradition of ceremonies dating back to the Middle Ages, while commemorating our own history and identity. We have therefore chosen to design our academic celebration to reflect our culture as well as maintain the link to the national and international university tradition. 

Save the date for Academic Celebration:

Friday November 27 2020

Friday October 8 2021

Ordering of the Academic Insignia 2020

Now it´s possible to order the Academic Insignia 2020. Read more about how to order here.

Photo Album 2019

Order photos from the Ceremony 2019

See film from the Ceremony 2019

Academic Year 2020/21

Autumn Semester

Classes begin August 31, 2020

Classes end January 17, 2021

Spring Semester

Classes begin January 18, 2021                   

Classes end June 6, 2021

Summer semester

Classes begin June 7, 2021

Classes end August 29, 2021

Academic Year 2021/22

Autumn Semester

Classes begin August 30, 2021

Classes end January 16, 2022

Spring Semester

Classes begin January 17, 2022                  

Classes end June 5, 2022

Summer semester

Classes begin June 6, 2022

Classes end August 28, 2022

Academic Year 2020/21

Autumn Semester

Classes begin August 31, 2020

Classes end January 17, 2021

Spring Semester

Classes begin January 18, 2021                   

Classes end June 6, 2021

Summer semester

Classes begin June 7, 2021

Classes end August 29, 2021

Academic Year 2021/22

Autumn Semester

Classes begin August 30, 2021

Classes end January 16, 2022

Spring Semester

Classes begin January 17, 2022                  

Classes end June 5, 2022

Summer semester

Classes begin June 6, 2022

Classes end August 28, 2022

and talk about their research and its benefits to the common good. The programme continues with an open seminar with this year’s honarary doctors.

Read more below about the professors that were installed, the PhDs who were promoted and the honorary doctorates appointed.

The professors

The doctors

The honarary doctors

The program at Karlstad CCC - Presentation and conversation with this year's professors and honorary doctors

Sweden
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg
IVL, Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Gothenburg
KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm
Linköpings University
Lunds University
Stockholm University
The Swedish Research School of Management and Information Technology
University of Gothenburg
University of Borås
Uppsala University
VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Linköping

Europe
Aalto University, Finland
Alliance Manchester Business School, Management Science and Marketing Division, Manchester, UK
BI, Norwegian Business School,Oslo, Norway
Centre for Social Morphology and Social Policy, Panteion University, Greece
Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Cranfield University, Institute of Marketing, Faculty of Business Administration, UK
Department of Church and Social Studies, Helsinki University, Finland
CSI - Center for Service Innovation, Norway
Department of Business Studies, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
Department of Practical Theology, University of Würzburg, Germany
EAWAG, Switzerland
EDHEC Business School, Roubaix, France
EMAC – European academy of marketing
ENUHRM
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
Euromed Management, Mariselle, France 
European academy of management
Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Tübingen, Germany
Hanken, CERS, Centre for Relationship Marketing and Service Management, Finland
Hanken, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland
IAE, France
Institute of Theology and Philosophy, Agder University College, Norway
KEDGE Business School, Marsielle, France
Maastricht University, Marketing Department, The Netherlands
Management Center Innsbruck, Family Business Center, Austria
Manchester School of Management, UK
Manchester Business School, UK
NHH, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway
Nottingham University Business School, UK 
Religion and Politics Cluster of Excellence, University of Münster, Germany
Roma Tre University, Italy
Sapienza University, School of Management, Italy
Scancore alumi netwok
School of Management, Bradford University, UK
Universita Bocconi, Milano, Italy
Université de Droit, D’Economie et des d’Aix-Marseille, Instititut d’Administration des Enterprises,
Unversity Magna Graecia de Catanzaro, Italy
University of Birmingham Business School, UK
University of Bologna, Department of Management, Bologna, Italy
University of Hamburg, Germany 
University of Porto, Portugal
University of Strathclyde, UK
University of Surrey, UK
University of Westminster,  Harrow Business School, The Services Business Markets Centre, UK 
University of Vienna, Austria
VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway
Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK

USA, Canada, Mexico
Academy of management, USA
Arizona State University, Center for Services Leadership, W. P. Carey School of Business, USA
Clemson University, College of Business, Clemson, USA
Edificio Egade-Itesm, Mexico
EGADE Business School, Monterrey Tech, Mexico
Florida State University, USA
IBM University Programs Worldwide, USA
Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Ohio State University, USA
Reyerson University, Toronto, Canada
School of Packaging at Michigan University, USA
Texas A&M University, Department of Marketing, Lowry Mays College & Graduate School of Business, USA 
Texas Christian University, The Neeley School of Business, USA
Texas State University, Department of Marketing, San Marcos, Texas, USA
University of Alabama, Department of Marketing, Tuscaloosa
University of Hawaii, Shidler College of Business, USA
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business, USA
University of Miami, School of Business, USA
University of Victoria, Faculty of Business, Canada
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Business, USA
USA Thunderbird School of Global Management, USA

Asia
Indian Institute of Management, India
Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesien
Kyoto University, Japan
Nankai University, Business School, China
Tama University, Japan
University of Singapore
University of Tsukuba, Japan

Australia
Griffith University, Department of Marketing, Australia
School of Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
University of Queensland, Business School of, Australia

New Zealand
University of Auckland, New Zealand: Department of Marketing & International Business
University of Cantebury, New Zealand

Africa
Faculty of Commerce, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

There are a lot of definitions of the term information literacy. The skills usually associated with the term are: media literacy, digital competence, and information literacy – the skill to be able to search for, find, critically evaluate and use information for different purposes and in different contexts.

We use the term academic information literacy in order to center and define the different aspects of information literacy relevant for the academic context. This includes knowing how to evaluate and understand information; understanding referencing, the information search process, learning strategies, academic integrity and critical thinking.

With the expanse of digital technology, students’ access to copyright protected material has increased. This leads to a greater need for both students and staff to understand copyright laws and being able to make ethical considerations. Therefore, besides the concepts usually connected with information literacy: information search, referencing, and source criticism, we also include academic competences such as understanding copyright and proficiency in academic writing as central concepts.

Academic information literacy - a Canvas course

The university library has designed a course in Canvas on academic information literacy. It primarily targets students at Karlstad University, and is available in both Swedish and English. It consists of three modules. Every module consists of text, images and/or videos, as well as quizzes. The three modules are:

• The search for information
  A basic overview of the different components of the information search process: planning a search question, choosing search terms, and using some basic search strategies.
• Evaluate and criticise
  What does it mean to be critical towards your sources in an academic context? We go over different types of scholarly material and how to evaluate, for example, a journal article.
• The academic text
  A short introduction to academic language and how to disposition an academic text, basic information on plagiarism, copyright, and Creative Commons. As well as an overview on referencing, of course.

How to access the course

We offer three ways of accessing the content in our Canvas course.

1. The contents are imported into your current course.
   This will give you full access to the contents of the course, and we can adjust the content somewhat to fit your specific group of students. As well as importing the course into Canvas, we also book a workshop opportunity for your students to attend. In order to be able to import the course into Canvas, you have to add one of us from the library teaching group as a teacher for your course.
    
2. The content is available online.
   Many students need to revise the information, for example before writing an essay. Therefore, it might be valuable to be able to quickly refer to the contents of the course. This option offers no possible adjustments.
   Academic Information Literacy – a Canvas course from Karlstad University library
    
3. Canvas commons.
   You can choose to import selected modules from the course into Canvas, for example to revise a certain aspect of the contents. The three modules are individually available for download through Canvas Commons. Note that the quizzes have been removed here since they do not work through Canvas Commons. (Currently not yet available for the English version)

If you are interested in knowing more about the canvas course in Academic Information Literacy and how to use it, please contact Marie-Louise Eriksson.

Credits

Courses are credited in ECTS (European Credit Transfer System). Courses are assigned a number of credits depending on the workload students need in order to achieve the expected learning outcomes.

1.5 ECTS credits are equivalent to one week’s workload of 40 hours, including lectures, classes, contact hours, assignments and independent study. This means that a course which is allocated 15 ECTS credits has a workload requirement of approximately ten weeks full-time work including examinations.

The ECTS protocol allocates 60 credits to a full academic year’s work, and 30 credits to a semester’s work.

Grades

In most faculties and disciplines the grades awarded are:

VG = Pass with distinction
G = Pass
U = Fail

In engineering departments, the following scale may be used:

5 = Pass with great distinction
4 = Pass with distinction
3 = Pass
U = Fail

Please note that only Swedish grades are given to students. Karlstad University does not translate grades into other grading scales.

Transcript of records

Transcript of records are not sent out automatically at the end of your exchange. You can print yours out via “My Kau”. It is valid as an official transcript and at the bottom of the page there is a link and a code, which your university can use should they need to verify your transcript. You can also email valkomstcenter@kau.se and request a copy of your transcript of records, once you know that all your grades have been reported into the system.

Semester structure

The academic year is split into the autumn and spring semesters. The majority of courses and study programmes start in the autumn. The autumn semester starts in August and continues until January of the following year. The spring semester starts in January and finishes in June. An Introduction week is held one week before the official start of the semester.

• Read more about the Swedish Academic Year here

Credits

Courses are credited in ECTS (European Credit Transfer System). Courses are assigned a number of credits depending on the workload students need in order to achieve the expected learning outcomes.

1.5 ECTS credits are equivalent to one week’s workload of 40 hours, including lectures, classes, contact hours, assignments and independent study. This means that a course which is allocated 15 ECTS credits has a workload requirement of approximately ten weeks full-time work including examinations.

The ECTS protocol allocates 60 credits to a full academic year’s work, and 30 credits to a semester’s work.

Grades

In most faculties and disciplines the grades awarded are:

VG = Pass with distinction
G = Pass
U = Fail

In engineering departments, the following scale may be used:

5 = Pass with great distinction
4 = Pass with distinction
3 = Pass
U = Fail

Please note that only Swedish grades are given to students. Karlstad University does not translate grades into other grading scales.

Transcript of records

Transcript of records are not sent out automatically at the end of your exchange. You can print yours out via “My Kau”. It is valid as an official transcript and at the bottom of the page there is a link and a code, which your university can use should they need to verify your transcript. You can also email valkomstcenter@kau.se and request a copy of your transcript of records, once you know that all your grades have been reported into the system.

Semester structure

The academic year is split into the autumn and spring semesters. The majority of courses and study programmes start in the autumn. The autumn semester starts in August and continues until January of the following year. The spring semester starts in January and finishes in June. An Introduction week is held one week before the official start of the semester.

• Read more about the Swedish Academic Year here

This initiative is a continuation of the agreement of intention that was made for the period 2010-2014 when ten new professorships were instituted at Karlstad University. This project also involves research cooperation and it will go on till the year 2020.

Strengthening research environments in Värmland

The Academy for Smart Specialisation aims to utilise research for the benefit of industry, the County Administration, the County Council, and the municipalities in Värmland, and to strengthen the research environments in the region. High-quality research is expected to attract more external funding to the university.

Finding internationally competitive areas

The concept of ”Smart specialisation” involves finding strong areas with the capacity to evolve into internationally competitive industries in the region. The Värmland research and innovation strategy identifies the following six potential areas:

• Value-creating services
• Forest-based bioeconomy
• Digitalisation of welfare services
• Advanced manufacturing and complex systems
• Digitalised experience of nature, culture and place
• Systems solutions with solar energy

These six areas are the foundation of the Academy for Smart Specialisation. Karlstad University and Region Värmland will run the Academy jointly for the purpose of serving as a meeting-place for researchers, companies, financiers and entrepreneurs.

By linking research innovation and education, the Academy will prepare Karlstad University students for employment to drive the industrial development in the six prioritised areas in Värmland.

Projects in the Academy for Smart Specialisation

• Transition to sustainable forest bioeconomy 

• The Research Environment for a Circular Forest-Based Bioeconomy (FoSBE) 

• Graduate School for Digitalisation in Education (FUNDIG)

• DigitalWell Research

• Karlstad Lean Factory

• AT-LAB - Regional additive manufacturing laboratory at Karlstad University

• Digitalisation and the Tourism Industry

• Demand-Responsive Transport to ensure accessibility, availability and reliability of rural public transport (RESPONSE)

• Music Ecosystems Inner Scandinavia - MECO

• Solar Värmland

• Gender Academy for SME

• VRIS 3 Academy Platform

• Short description of the projects

Appearence in media

• Magasin Panorama
• Broschyr from EU commission
• Academy for smart specialisation appointed as Good Practice
• Widening Participation and Strengthening Synergies: Summary Report
• Regionalisation of research and innovation policies

The library’s collections comprise books, journals, reference works, etc., both in printed and electronic format. You need to log in to access most of the library’s e-journals, e-books, and databases from outside the university network.

Accessing e-resources from outside the university using your KauID login:

• Select the database, e-journal, e-book, etc. from the links on the library’s homepage, or select an item in OneSearch
• Click on the link to the selected item
• Enter your KauID username and password when prompted

With VPN

• If you connect your computer via the University's VPN will you have access to most of the library's resources without additional login.

Ordering interlibrary loans, suggesting purchases, etc.

• Send a purchasing suggestion

• Information about the library’s media and acquisition policy

• Interlibrary loans

This company can provide living quarters near the university to our foreign students. Please read more here:
KBAB - Foreign students

Accommodation 

We have reserved a number of rooms at two centrally located hotels in down town Karlstad. Both of them are within a few minutes walk from the central station and are included in the contract for state employe discount [statliga avtalspriser för hotell]. The rooms are reserved until August 25 after which the rooms that have not been booked are released again. To book your stay, contact the hotel and state the booking code (see below) to get the state employe discount. If the hotels are fully booked, or if you prefer to stay somewhere else, there are plenty of hotels in Karlstad. In order to help you, we have chosen to list a few more in the same standard as the two where we have made reservations. They are all centrally located, close to bus stops with easy access to the university.    

Hotels with reserved rooms

Clarion Collection Hotel Drott
Järnvägsgatan 1
Web: www.drotthotel.se
Mail: cc.drott@choice.se
Booking code: 114215
Price: 945 sek/single room and night (including VAT)

Clarion Hotel Plaza
Västra Torggatan 2
Web: www.choice.se/clarion/plaza
Mail: cl.plazakarlstad@choice.se
Booking code: 124919
Pris: 927 sek/single room and night (including VAT)

Other hotels of similar standard

Scandic Hotel City: https://www.scandichotels.com/hotels/sweden/karlstad/scandic-karlstad-city

Scandic Winn: https://www.scandichotels.com/hotels/sweden/karlstad/scandic-winn

Elite Stadshotellet Karlstad: https://www.elite.se/sv/hotell/karlstad/stadshotellet/

Clarion Collection Hotel Bilan: https://www.nordicchoicehotels.com/clarion/clarion-collection-hotel-bilan/

Bus

Karlstadsbuss operates the bus service in Karlstad and three routes, number 1, 2 and 3, stops at the University. Route 1 and 2 departs every ten minutes from the central bus hub down town, located around Stora Torget. The number 1 route is preferable since it takes you directly to the university in roughly 15 minutes. 

Note that it is no longer possible to pay buy cash for tickets on board. The by far easiest way to travel is to use the Karlstadsbuss app, available for most phones. In it you can buy and store tickets as well as get a discount. If you rather prefer using a physical bus card you can buy one at all Pressbyrån locations as well as a number of other retailers around the city. In addition you can purchase single tickets in machines, located at major bus stops. 

Information on bus travel in Karlstad: http://karlstad.se/Karlstadsbuss/Priser-och-biljetter/ 

Karlstad Bostad AB owns and manages around 7400 rental apartments and commercial premises in the centre of Karlstad. They have around 7,400 apartments in various sizes and locations around town.

This company provides living quarters around the university for exchange students. Once the admission letter has been sent out, you will be contacted directly by KBAB, who will help you find suitable accommodation.

This company can provide living quarters near the university to our foreign students. Please read more here:
KBAB - Foreign students

The Swedish Environmental Longitudinal, Mother and Child, Asthma and Allergy study (SELMA) provided data for the research. Information was gathered from 754 women who were enrolled into the study in weeks 8-13 of their pregnancy. Researchers asked participants to report the number of acetaminophen tablets they had taken between conception and enrollment, and tested the acetaminophen concentration in their urine at enrollment. This is the first study to examine language development in relation to acetaminophen levels in urine. The frequency of language delay, defined as the use of fewer than 50 words, was measured by both a nurse’s assessment and a follow-up questionnaire filled out by participants about their child’s language milestones at 30 months.

Acetaminophen was used by 59 percent of the women in early pregnancy. Acetaminophen use was quantified in two ways: High use vs. no use analysis used women who did not report any use as the comparison group. For the urine analysis, the top quartile of exposure was compared to the lowest quartile.

Language delay was seen in 10 percent of all the children in the study, with greater delays in boys than girls overall. However, girls born to mothers with higher exposure—those who took acetaminophen more than six times in early pregnancy—were nearly six times more likely to have language delay than girls born to mothers who did not take acetaminophen. These results are consistent with studies reporting decreased IQ and increased communication problems in children born to mothers who used more acetaminophen during pregnancy.

Both the number of tablets and concentration in urine were associated with a significant increase in language delay in girls, and a slight but not significant decrease in boys. Overall, the results suggest that acetaminophen use in pregnancy results in a loss of the well-recognized female advantage in language development in early childhood.
The SELMA study will follow the children and re-examine language development at seven years.

Digital editions are given priority

Digital editions are preferred to printed editions. We already have a large collection of electronic journals and are now building our collection of electronic books.

Course literature

The library acquires currently listed course literature. The number of copies bought depends on demand and the number of students taking a course.

Course reference books
The library holds a reference collection of the most popular course books. Please note that not all books on literature lists are included in the course reference collection.

DVD films

The library holds a collection of films on DVD that may be borrowed. The collection includes classics as well as newer films, documentaries, and educational material. We mainly purchase films used in courses.

Our suppliers

The following contracted suppliers of books and journals give the library good service and discounts:

• Adlibris
• Dawson Books (went into administration - June 19 2020)
• Delbanco
• Ebsco

Donations

Donations are only accepted after objective assessment of their relevance, and provided that library may freely dispose of the material. Contact Anna-Britta Nilsson for more information.

Journals

Access to most of our e-journals is regulated per central agreement. Contact Ulrika Hargefors with questions about our journal subscriptions

Within this thematic stream the intention is to avoid the common divide between theoretical analysis and empirical application. This stream focusses on theorising organisations and methodologies to achieve change, to offer teaching in the area, as well as advancing its parallel concentration upon practical implementation processes. Research on organisations and change tends to either be very descriptive and instrumental—with limited attention to analysis, socio-political implications, and portability of the research—or it is limited by a managerial organisational orientation. CGF’s research profile challenges these limitations in much existing work in the field. The Centre aims to connect robust and socially located theoretical analysis with reflexive practical implementation in research on organisations and change. In this context, CGF offers a critical approach which raises questions concerning notions of change in organisations, and engages with cutting-edge international debates regarding the meaning of gender equality, and the significance of intersectionality and gender diversity.

The CGF approach is to research possibilities for a feminist approach to social change and then enact implementation strategies to advance those possibilities. By gaining knowledge about how organisations situate themselves, the Centre is also able to contribute new methodologies for change. The theme of ‘Action for organisational change’ is framed by the recognition that feminist research on social life is not merely about understanding and clarifying social processes and power relations but importantly about social innovation to advance social justice.

CGF is presently running two research projects that combines practical understandings of gender equality implementation in small and medium sized companies as well as an EU funded-project investigating entrepreneurship and innovation systems framework in four different countries: Ireland, Sweden, Norway, and Israel. The project Gender Academy https://www.kau.se/genusakademin is working with gender mainstreaming in seven different SME’s. The project is funded by the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, Region Värmland and Karlstad University.

The transnational research project entitled “Overcoming the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Gender Divide: A Cross-Cultural Perspective” is comparing gender, and national ecosystems of entrepreneurship. Underlying most regional entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem frameworks is the assumption that all entrepreneurs have equal access to resources, participation and support, as well as an equal chance of a successful outcome (venture start-up). However, women are under-represented in successful entrepreneurial ecosystems and a persistent gender bias continues to exist in entrepreneurship discourse and practice. The project further explore the role of technology incubation in influencing women’s engagement in entrepreneurial ecosystems. This project is being funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. To learn more about the project see http://gender-net-plus.eu/joint-call/funded-projects/genre/ as well as our PI, professor Maura McAdam’s homepage http://mauramcadam.com/genre-project/ at DCU, Dublin.