Diversamente scienza

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Staff ◽  
Gender Parity ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Diversity Committee ◽  
University Of Florence ◽  
The University

This work originates from the conference organized by the Equity and Diversity Committee of the University of Florence and the National Conference of the Gender Parity Organisms of the Italian Universities held in Florence the 12th October 2018. The papers here collected illustrate the obstacles that women encounter in their academic career, especially in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). The issues the volumes deals with are still worth taking into consideration considering that women represent only the 30% of the academic research staff at the world level and that only the 30% of women students choose STEM faculties.

scholarly journals The conceit of activism in the illiberal university

2021 ◽  
pp. 147821032110034
Author(s):  
Bruce Macfarlane
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Stance ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Popular Image

The popular image of activism in the university involves students and academics campaigning for social justice and resisting the neo-liberalisation of the university. Yet activism has been subtly corporatised through the migration of corporate social responsibility from the private sector into the university, a trend that may be illustrated by reference to the growing influence of research ‘grand challenges’ (GCs). Attracting both government and philanthro-capitalist funding, GCs adopt a socio-political stance based on justice globalism and represent a responsibilisation of academic research interests. Compliance with the rhetoric of GCs and the virtues of inter-disciplinarity have become an article of faith for academics compelled to meet the expectations of research-intensive universities in chasing the prestige and resources associated with large grant capture. The responsibilisation of the efforts of researchers, via GCs, erodes academic ownership of the research agenda and weakens the purpose of the university as an independent think tank: the essence of the Humboldtian ideal. The conceit of corporate activism is that in seeking to solve the world’s problems, the university will inevitably create new ones. Instead, as Flexner argued, it is only by preserving the independence and positive ‘irresponsibility’ of researchers that universities can best serve the world.

scholarly journals Does Latinx Representation Matter for Latinx Student Retention in STEM?

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blanca E. Rincón
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Stem Students ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

Using student-level data, this study explores the relationship between Latinx student representation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and student retention. Results revealed that a 1% increase in cohort-level Latinx student representation in STEM subfields is associated with a decrease in student departures from the university, but not STEM. Furthermore, Latinx STEM students may be more responsive to changes in the representation of their cohorts compared with increases in diversity for upper-division undergraduate or graduate students.

scholarly journals Up or Out: Research Incentives and Career Prospects of Postdocs in Germany

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd Fitzenberger ◽  
Ute Schulze
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Academic Training ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Life Cycle Perspective ◽  
The University ◽  
Research Incentives ◽  
Phd Program ◽  
Program Show ◽  
University Reforms

Abstract Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany to analyze the perceptions and attitudes of postdocs regarding their research incentives, their working conditions, and their career prospects. We conceptualize the career prospects of a postdoc in a life-cycle perspective of transitions from academic training to academic or non-academic jobs. Only about half of the postdocs sees strong incentives for academic research, but there is quite a strong confidence to succeed in an academic career. Furthermore, postdocs who attended a PhD program show better career prospects and higher research incentives compared to others. Academic career prospects and motivation are strongest for assistant professors. Apart from this small group, however, postdocs report only a small impact of the university reforms of the last decade. Female postdocs show significantly higher research incentives but otherwise we find little gender differences. Finally, good prospects in nonacademic jobs are not associated with a reduction in the motivation for research.

scholarly journals Editorial Board Thoughts: Arts into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics – STEAM, Creative Abrasion, and the Opportunity in Libraries Today

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Patrick Tod Colegrove
Keyword(s):  
Science Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
Jigsaw Puzzles ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Way

By actively seeking out opportunities to bring art into traditionally STEM-focused activity, and vice-versa, we are deliberately increasing the diversity of the environment. Makerspace services and activities, to the extent they are open and visibly accessible to all, are a natural for the spontaneous development of trans-disciplinary collaboration. Within the spaces of the library, opportunities to connect individuals around shared avocational interest might range from music and spontaneous performance areas to spaces salted with LEGO bricks and jigsaw puzzles; the potential connections between our resources and the members of our communities are as diverse as their interests. Indeed, when a practitioner from one discipline can interact and engage with others from across the STEAM spectrum, the world becomes a richer place – and maybe, just maybe, we can fan the flames of curiosity along the way.

scholarly journals Vernon Herbert Blackman, 1872-1967

1968 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 37-60 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The University ◽  
Freedom Of Action ◽  
Plant Behaviour

V. H. Blackman’s academic career spanned an era during which botany became an experimental subject and the interpretation of plant behaviour in terms of contemporary chemistry, physics and mathematics was an exciting new prospect. In Britain during the latter part of the nineteenth century, as he himself remarked, classification was pursued with an enthusiasm which almost excluded other aspects of botany; a circumstance attributed to the expansion of Empire which gave access to many new floras. Blackman belonged to the generations of men whose schooling was entirely in the classical tradition but who yet became professors of science subjects. In the nineteenth century such men expected to teach and discuss every aspect of their chosen discipline and prosecution of research was not an obligation for the teacher; the incentive was curiosity and the reward intellectual. Vocational opportunities were limited to the small university community, the schools and the herbaria of the state institutions. The men who accepted these posts were usually characterized by a strict sense of duty, a high standard of integrity, and a respect for learning. In the university they had almost complete freedom of action and time to think. Blackman was a fastidious and somewhat shy man who maintained the exacting standards of such scholars. He was always immaculate in appearance, unfailingly courteous and never apparently hurried. He trusted his staff and students absolutely and in an effortless and perhaps unconscious manner exercised a remarkable and benign authority which served to impress on those who worked with him, to their lasting benefit, the value of his tenets. Vernon Herbert Blackman was born on 8 January 1872 at a house in York Road, Lambeth, near Waterloo Station. His father, Frederick Blackman, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., practised medicine in the area which included slum streets into which his sisters were not allowed.

Addressing Diversity in STEM Education: Authenticity and Integration

2009 ◽  
Vol 1233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona M. Goodchild ◽  
Maria O. Aguirre
Keyword(s):  
Research Evaluation ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Diversity In Stem ◽  
Social Components ◽  
The University

AbstractThis talk will reflect on the challenges of designing educational opportunities that broaden diversity in the ranks of future scientists and engineers. The speaker, who is Education Director at the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will report on the design and evaluation of a program that integrates academic, career and social components to engage a community of undergraduates, graduate mentors and research faculty at UCSB. The program builds on key practices such as academic mentorship, community networking and early undergraduate research. Evaluation of this program, Expanding Pathways to Science, Engineering and Mathematics (EPSEM) indicates that it has been successful in recruiting and retaining students from under-represented (URM) groups into science, technology, engineering and math disciplines (STEM disciplines).

Raymond John Stalker 1930–2014

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Stalker ◽  
Richard Morgan ◽  
Roger I. Tanner
Keyword(s):  
Hypersonic Flow ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
The World ◽  
Flow Speeds ◽  
National University ◽  
The University

Raymond John Stalker was born in Dimboola, Victoria on 6 August 1930 and died in Brisbane on 9 February 2014. He had a distinguished academic career at the Australian National University in Canberra and at the University of Queensland. His work on hypersonic flow was universally recognized, and the ‘Stalker Tube' facilities he pioneered were able to reach unprecedented flow speeds and were reproduced in many laboratories around the world.

scholarly journals A Campus-Wide Investigation of Clicker Implementation: The Status of Peer Discussion in STEM Classes

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. ar6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin D. Lewin ◽  
Erin L. Vinson ◽  
MacKenzie R. Stetzer ◽  
Michelle K. Smith
Keyword(s):  
High School Teachers ◽  
Instructional Behaviors ◽  
Instructional Style ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Peer Discussion ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The University ◽  
University Science ◽  
Targeted Professional Development

At the University of Maine, middle and high school teachers observed more than 250 university science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classes and collected information on the nature of instruction, including how clickers were being used. Comparisons of classes taught with (n = 80) and without (n = 184) clickers show that, while instructional behaviors differ, the use of clickers alone does not significantly impact the time instructors spend lecturing. One possible explanation stems from the observation of three distinct modes of clicker use: peer discussion, in which students had the opportunity to talk with one another during clicker questions; individual thinking, in which no peer discussion was observed; and alternative collaboration, in which students had time for discussion, but it was not paired with clicker questions. Investigation of these modes revealed differences in the range of behaviors, the amount of time instructors lecture, and how challenging the clicker questions were to answer. Because instructors can vary their instructional style from one clicker question to the next, we also explored differences in how individual instructors incorporated peer discussion during clicker questions. These findings provide new insights into the range of clicker implementation at a campus-wide level and how such findings can be used to inform targeted professional development for faculty.

scholarly journals Transfer Student Experiences and Identity Navigation in STEM: Overlapping Figured Worlds of Success

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. ar48
Author(s):  
Austin L. Zuckerman ◽  
Stanley M. Lo
Keyword(s):  
Community Colleges ◽  
Transfer Students ◽  
Figured Worlds ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Transfer Student ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The University ◽  
University Setting

Successful transitions from community colleges to the university setting are essential for increasing the number of transfer students who complete science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degree programs. In this study, Holland’s framework of figured worlds was used to examine how transfer students pursuing STEM negotiated their identities in their transition to the university.

scholarly journals STEAM education: An opportunity to transcend gender and disciplinary norms in early childhood?

2021 ◽  
pp. 146394912110514
Author(s):  
Sofie Areljung ◽  
Anna Günther-Hanssen
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Steam Education ◽  
The World ◽  
And Mathematics

STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) education is currently gaining ground in many parts of the world, particularly in higher stages of the educational system. Foreseeing a development of STEAM policy and research also in the early years, this colloquium seeks to bring questions of gendering processes to the table. The authors aspire to prevent the development of a gender-blind STEAM discourse for early childhood education. Instead, they encourage practitioners and researchers to make use of STEAM education to recognise and transcend gendered norms connected to children’s being and learning in the arts, STEM and STEAM.

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