The Fondation L'Oréal (and Ipsos) are conducting an international survey on gender equality within the public and private research community around the world. 

This survey seeks to examine the experiences of scientists in their careers, the challenges they have encountered, particularly women and how they have overcome and been affected by them. Your responses will help quantify and understand the continued challenges that women scientists face, and draw out the most urgent solutions that need to be implemented by institutions and others.

Answering this questionnaire will take you no more than 10 minutes. The survey is available in 6 languages until September 9th, 2022. If you agree to take part in this survey sent to you by the Fondation L'Oréal and Ipsos, please follow the link below. 

Over the past two months NIAS has welcomed almost a dozen Fellows (back) to the Institute for an Alumni Summer Stay.  

During her summer stay Dr. Roxane Farmanfarmaian was making progress on her forthcoming work ‘Soft Violence: Patterns of State Rhetorical Warfare’ (working title), it deals with states' use of offensive rhetorical mechanisms to achieve a range of outcomes from soft power to soft war. 

Amin Ghaziani, Professor of Sociology and Canada Research Chair in Urban Sexualities at UBC and co-editor of Contexts also joined as Guest of the Director for a Summer Stay. Amin is putting the finishing touches on a new book which focuses on the inventive and imaginative constructions of belonging, particularly for racialized, intersectional, and historically othered groups, as they are occurring in the field of nightlife in London. More here. 

See the stories of all of this summer's visiting fellows below! 

Fonds Bijzondere Journalisten Project (FBJP) Journalist-in-Residence 2021/22 Lynn Berger spend a semester at NIAS to work on her book on Care. In this Dutch-language publication, combining reportage, science journalism and personal essay writing, Berger finds out what it means to care and be cared for, where care manifests itself, and what we need to be able to take good care. You can find 'Zorg' online here and in all major bookshops in the Netherlands.

Don't miss your opportunity to join the NIAS Community later this year as FBJP Journalist-in-Residence. (See right for information about the call now open. Deadline, Sept 12th.) 

“When I finally start writing after two months of reading, I realized there are few places as nice to do that as NIAS.” Read more about the experience of Lynn Berger during her Fellowship at NIAS 

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