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Gender Dimension in Research: Concepts, Practices and Impact

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Gender Dimension in Research: Concepts, Practices and Impact

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Course tags
Scienze Umane/Humanities
Language
English
Type
Online
Modality
Self paced
Course open
30 March 2026
Training hours
12
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Attendance Certificate
Admission fee
Free

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Integrating gender perspectives into research can lead to new insights and yield more precise and valid results. By gender perspectives, we refer to research that explicitly includes the sex and/or gender dimension as part of its design and analysis. There is no single or definitive way to achieve this; rather, there are multiple approaches to addressing sex and gender within research content.
The absence of sex/gender perspectives may result in biased findings, while their uncritical inclusion can inadvertently reinforce gender stereotypes. Gender perspectives are not always relevant to every research topic, and there is no universally “correct” way to apply them. Researchers who engage with gender perspectives draw on a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches.
Including the gender dimension in a research project does not necessarily mean emphasizing differences between men and women. Instead, it involves exploring how gender relations operate in various contexts and intersect with other factors such as age, income, education, ethnicity, and geographic location.
Incorporating gender perspectives does not automatically imply a focus on power relations. However, it is essential that researchers critically reflect on their own -and others’- often unconscious assumptions about gender, and avoid reproducing gender stereotypes when interpreting data. After all, research itself is a critical endeavor.
Asking critical questions is fundamental to generating new knowledge. The meaning of gender in any given context should be continuously and critically examined throughout the research process, just as any other underlying assumption would be.

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Ana Borovecki

Associate Professor at the "Andrija Štampar" School of Public Health (University of Zagreb) and Specialist in Clinical Pharmacology. With a PhD in Bioethics and degrees in Medicine and Philosophy, she is an expert in ethics committees and medical humanities.

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Alessandra Buja

Associate Professor in Public Health in the Department of Cardiothoracic-Vascular Sciences and Public Health. She balanced academic research in partnership with healthcare services alongside public health initiatives.

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Luciana Caenazzo

Luciana Caenazzo is an Adjunct Professor of Forensic Medicine at the University of Padua, where she teaches in various degree programs for the Health Professions.

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Paola Degani

Teaches Public Policy and Women’s Human Rights at the University of Padua. Her work focuses on violence against women and exploitation, fields in which she has also served on key technical committees for the Italian Presidency of the Council and the Inter-Ministerial Commission for victims of trafficking. 

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Annamaria Moretti

Head of Respiratory Diseases at the GVM-S. Maria Hospital. He manages clinical operations and specialized care for pulmonary conditions within the GVM Care & Research network.

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Lisa Pagotto

Research Advisor at the University of Padua, she supports SSH international projects (EC funded). She specializes in mapping funding, proposal writing, and organizing training workshops. Previously, she held a PhD and post-doc positions in Social Psychology at the same university.

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Laura Palazzani

Full Professor of Philosophy of Law at LUMSA. She is a member of the Commission of ethics and integrity in Research of the National Council of Research; former VP of the National Bioethics Committee, former member of the EGE (EU) and IBC (UNESCO). She coordinates Horizon 2020 projects and is a Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Author of numerous monographs 

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Lucio Pisacane

Lucio Pisacane is a researcher at the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies (IRPPS-CNR). He works on studies and research focusing on human resources for science, gender equality, and diversity and inclusion in research organizations. He participated in the European H2020 project GENERA and is currently the CNR contact person for the H2020 project MINDTHEGEPS. He supports actions and measures to promote gender equality and diversity management in research organizations, with the belief that inclusive and diverse work environments foster creativity and improve the quality of scientific work.

Since February 2023, he has been coordinating the European project gEneSys, “Transforming Gendered Interrelations of Power and Inequalities for Just Energy Systems,” which focuses on the social and gender aspects of the energy transition.

In 2021, he served as a national expert for the European Institute for Gender Equality, and since 2022 he has been a member of the expert group at the European Commission on the consequences of the pandemic on the research and innovation system. Together with Cristiana Crescimbene, he represents the CNR in the technical monitoring group of the “No Women No Panel” campaign promoted by RAI.

His research interests include Open Science (through the OpenUP project) and the transformation of agricultural labor in Italy (in collaboration with the Placido Rizzotto Observatory of FLAI CGIL), as well as the Libera la Terra project on severe labor exploitation in the primary sector and the EATS project on social dialogue in agriculture (FAI-CISL).

In recent years, he has supported the drafting, management, and research activities of several European projects under the 7th Framework Programme, Horizon 2020, and Horizon Europe.

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Antonio Rodà

Associate Professor at the University of Padua, teaching Computer Science and Sound Design. Based at the CSC, his research spans affective computing and audio preservation. With a PhD and degrees in Engineering, Violin, and Composition, he has authored 100+ papers and led 13 projects.

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Giuliana Rubbia

Senior Technologist at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) and Gender Expert. VP of INGV's Equal Opportunities Committee and former VP of Donne e Scienza. Currently serving as co-chair of the CoARA National Chapter Italy, co-chair of the Capacity Building & Communication Task Force of the CoARA WG TIER – Towards an Inclusive Evaluation of Research Working Group, and member of the GdL CoARA@INGV.   

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Chiara Tessari

Cardiac Surgery Researcher at the Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences and Public Health at the University of Padua, and Cardiac Surgeon at the Cardiac Surgery Unit of the Padua University Hospital.

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Gender Dimension in Research: Concepts, Practices and Impact

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Welcome to the course
Glossary
Initial feedback
The Fundamentals
Gender Dimension in the EU
Gender-Sensitive Research Design
Gender-Sensitive Methodology
In Medicine
In Other Disciplines
Ethics
Towards institutional change
Summing up the course
Final test
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Learning outcomes

 At the end of the course, participants will:

  • Understand the meaning and importance of integrating the gender dimension in research.
  • Acquire methodological tools to design, implement, and evaluate gender-sensitive research.
  • Analyze concrete case studies across various disciplinary areas (STEM, Gender Medicine, social sciences, etc.).
  • Promote compliance with European policies and contribute to the adoption of more responsible, inclusive, and transparent research assessment practices, in line with the principles of COARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment) and the goals of its TIER Working Group.

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Target audience

PhD candidates, researchers and professors at all career levels and in all disciplines

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Enrolment and Certificate

The course is free of charge. An attendance certificate will be issued to learners who successfully complete the required activities.

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