These dynamics may affect who is heard in meetings, who receives credit for ideas, who takes on invisible organisational work, who feels safe to disagree, and who gains access to authorship, fieldwork, travel or leadership opportunities.
This practical three-hour workshop is designed for team members working in international or multicultural research and academic environments. The workshop looks at how gender balance and inclusion can be actively supported within research teams. Participants will work with real-life situations, including team meetings, supervision, authorship discussions, fieldwork planning, communication with senior colleagues, and responses to inappropriate or exclusionary behavior.
Through interactive exercises, case studies and role-play, participants will learn how to recognise subtle forms of exclusion, respond to gendered and culturally framed misunderstandings, and support more respectful, transparent and inclusive teamwork. Special attention will be given to the inclusion of women, early-career researchers, international team members and colleagues whose voices may be less visible due to hierarchy, language or informal team norms.
By the end of the workshop, participants will not only understand key issues related to gender balance and inclusion in multicultural research teams, but will also leave with practical tools they can adapt to their own workplaces. These tools will include a checklist for running inclusive meetings, ready-to-use phrases for responding to bias or exclusion, and a short team agreement setting out basic rules for fair, transparent and gender-balanced collaboration.
About the trainer
Dr. Jana Mazancová holds a PhD in Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics and has also studied Gender Studies. She has more than 18 years of experience working on social issues in agriculture and rural development in Africa, Asia, and beyond.
At the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, she works as a senior researcher and currently serves as GEID officer. She coordinated the Horizon Europe AGRIGEP project focused on Gender Equality Plans in agricultural universities across Europe.
Her expertise includes inclusive development, stakeholder engagement, participatory policy processes, policy analysis, and capacity strengthening. She has also delivered trainings beyond academia and worked with international organisations and public institutions.
Project HIVE 101187384. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
