Equality Festival on Kumpula Campus took place on December 12, 2017.
Key note speaker Professor Paul Walton, University of York, UK:
Resistances to gender equality in universities, how to overcome them (Unitube-video)
Prof. Walton shared his recipe based on his 20 years of experience working with the theme of gender equality. He recommends as follows:
- share data widely and openly
- leadership
- focus at departmental/school level
- learn social science research
- use external catalysts
- keep the debate live, equip yourself with some of the theories of argument