Community of Practice Approach to Improving Gender Equality in Research

Rachel Palmén is Senior Researcher in the Gender and ICT Research Programme, IN3, at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), Spain, and at Notus Barcelona, Spain. She has worked on various gender and science research projects, including GenPORT, EFFORTI, TARGET and ACT. Her main research interests include gender (in)equalities in R&I and institutional transformation. She is the coordinator of INSPIRE: The European Centre of Excellence on Inclusive Gender Equality in Research & Innovation.Jörg Müller is Senior Researcher in the Gender and ICT Research Programme, IN3, at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), Spain. He has coordinated several EC projects on gender equality and science, including GenPORT, GEDII and ACT. His main research interest focuses on relational and practice-based accounts of inequalities using new methodological approaches.

• 1. Introduction: Reflecting on a Community of Practice approach to institutional change for a greater gender equality in R&I and HE - Policy and practice 2. Can a Community of Practice foster institutional change for gender equality?: Conceptualising 'Community of Political Practice'3. The development of the Gender Equality Audit and Monitoring survey4. Co-creation Methods for Communities of Practice: Towards institutional change 5. Communities of Practice and gender equality: Fostering structural change in research and academia in Central and Eastern Europe 6. Alternative infrastructure for gender equality in academic institutions in Slovenia: Community of Practice approach 7. Disciplinary Communities of Practice for a greater gender equality in physics & life sciences 8. A gender budgeting Community of Practice and targeted implementation projects: A potential to challenge gender biases in decision-making in research organisations? 9. Sustainability and gender equality: A co-creation and Communities of Practice approach 10. Benefits and limits of a CoP approach to promote gender equality in R&I11. Scaling up: From Communities of Practice to the three ERA gender equality and mainstreaming objectives: careers, decision-making and integrating the gender dimension into research and educational content12. Concluding remarks: Towards Communities of Practice for greater gender equality