Belonging in physics: an intersectional approach

Description

When the University of Lund marked International Women's Day with a series of lectures with the double purpose of highlighting women's progress in academia at the same time pointing out the challenges that remain to make the university available to women on equal terms. The theme was "150 years with women in the academy - predecessors, role models, challenges" and among the speakers were Anne L'Huillier, professor of atomic physics, Elsa Trolle Önnerfors, professor in legal history, Andrés Brink Pinto, lecturer in gender studies, Maria Gedoz Tieppo, PhD in educational science and Annika Olsson, professor in packaging logistics and principal at LTH.

The aim of Maria Gedoz Tieppo's talk was to shed light on how the physics culture is intertwined with systemic forms of discrimination and oppression, in terms of gender but also several other social factors, which have historical and present implications in how physics is taught and researched. Through a variety of examples from previous research and of Gedoz Tieppo's doctoral research, Gedoz Tieppo showed how social inequality in physics is reproduced through a variety of invisible everyday practices and that solving such issue requires the new ways of seeing, understanding and approaching the problem.

Period	2024 Mar 8
Event title	International Women's Day at Lund University
Event type	Other
Location	Lund, SwedenShow on map
Degree of Recognition	Regional