Who gets to decide?

With this message about how decisions are made, who makes them and if the processes are fair, open and transparent, the structural challenges and barriers at research institutions to implementing gender, equality and diversity promoters are put to attention.

A goal is to strengthen the recognition and work with day-to-day revolutions in interactional patterns in order to bring about structural and lasting change. When do decision making processes follow formal and/or open procedures and when do they not? Our aim is to recommend looking at internal communication, to show how to diminish or challenge the impact of informal networks and to look at and revise gender equality in hiring processes. Moreover, we will focus on meeting culture and how to ensure that all participants have equal voice, and on graduate supervision and how to make sure that female and male graduate students are treated equitably.

Photo: Marie Rømer Westh