Equal Opportunities Group

The Equal Opportunities Group at the Department of Information Technology works to combat gender stereotypes and promote equality, at our department, and within the field of information technology in general.

Equal opportunities means giving everybody the chance to do their best regardless of gender, sexual identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief system, functional impairment, sexual preference or age.

The basic position for the equal opportunities group at the department of information technology is that the choices individuals make should be based on each person's talents and interests, and not expectations based on damaging biases. We believe that breaking the different unfortunate stereotypes that have and continue to colour information technology as a subject area will contribute to greater justice and freedom in our society.

Read more about the Equal Opportunities Group in the department's Equal Opportunities Plan for 2019.

Call for Projects

Do you have an idea for a project to improve equal opportunities? Apply for funds via the link below. Students and faculty at the department are welcome to apply:

• Call for proposals for equal opportunities improving projects 2019

Equal opportunities funding for parental leave

Associate Senior Lecturers and Post Doctoral Research Fellows who are/will be on parental leave may apply for funding of 100 000 Skr to be used to maintain/continue their research during/after their period of leave.

• Read more and apply here.

Important Links and Information

• International Celebration
• Gender Equality Plan 2019
• The University plan for equal opportunities 2014-2016
• Report about pedagogic and equity at the IT department, by Sven Sandberg.
• Rådet för lika villkor ("Equality Council." In Swedish only).
• Gender equality in academic recruitment processes
• FESTA Power Point
• Center for Women Researchers in Scientific Computing.
• The UTN discrimination survey 2017 (only in swedish): Report Summary

Contact Persons

Get in touch with our contacts for more information and assistance:

• Equal Opportunities Officer is Ginevra Castellano.
• Secretary is Anna-Lena Forsberg.
• Contact persons regarding sexual harassment are Anna-Lena Forsberg and Karolina Malm Holmgren.

Members of our gender equality group are

• Ginevra Castellano
• Anna-Lena Forsberg

• Johannes Borgström (CSD)
• Thiemo Voigt (DoCS)
• Gunilla Kreiss (TDB)
• Lars Oestreicher (Vi2)
• Karolina Malm Holmgren (T)
• Jack Umenberger (Syscon)
• Anneli Berglund (A)

• Eva Breznik (PhD student)
• Leslie Solorzano (PhD student)
• Caroline Algvere (student)
• vacant (student)

Monthly Meetings

• We meet in room 4306 once a month, usually every last Thursday of the month. OBS! From August on Wednesdays!
• Our meetings are open for anyone interested, sign up through mailing Anna-Lena Forsberg

Meeting dates 2019

Week day	Dates	Time	Main theme of the meeting
Thursday	JAN 31	13:30-14:30	Enhance Capacity of the Equal Opportunities Group to Work as Change Agents
Thursday	FEB 28	13:30-14:30	A Better Gender Situation for Technical and Administrative (TA) Personnel
Thursday	MAR 28	13:30-15:00	Applications + Gender Equality Aware Education that Creates a Better Learning Environment for All
Thursday	APR 25	13:30-14:30	Organizing an Equal Opportunities Day	OBS! Room 4307!
Monday	MAY 27	10:00-11:30	Applications + A Better Gender Situation for Technical and Administrative (TA) Personnel + Gender Equality Aware Education that Creates a Better Learning Environment for All.	OBS! Room 4307!
Wednesday	AUG 28	14:30-16:00	Applications + Better PhD Student Education for all	OBS! Room 4307!
Monday- Tuesday	SEP 30 - OCT 1	lunch to lunch	Equal Opportunities Group Retreat
Monday	OCT 21	14:00-15:00	Enhance Capacity of the Equal Opportunities Group to Work as Change Agents
Wednesday	NOV 27	15:00-16:30	Applications + Supporting Women in Post Doc-, Associate Senior Lecturers- or Senior Lecturer Positions

Agenda for the coming meeting.

Fika meetings: one Thursday a month

• Time: 15.15
• Room: 4308
• We meet and have fika together, only informally. Open for anyone interested!
• We take coffee/tea at the staff room and if someone wants to bring something edible to share it´s fine but we don´t order in especially.

Fika dates 2019

Week day	Date	Time
Thursday	JAN 17	15:15
Thursday	FEB 14	15:15
Thursday	MAR 14 (Canceled)	15:15
Thursday	APR 11	15:15
Thursday	MAY 9	15:15
Thursday	JUN 13	15:15
Thursday	AUG 15 (Canceled)	15:15
Thursday	SEP 12	15:15
Thursday	OCT 10	15:15
Thursday	NOV 7	15:15
Thursday	DEC 5	15:15

Minutes from Meetings of the Equal Opportunities Group

Minutes from all meetings of the Equal Opportunities Group are presented in medarbetarportalen.

Minutes from the current year can also be accessed via these links, older minutes are archived below.

• Minutes from the meeting on 2016-11-30 (See also MP)
• Minutes from the meeting on 2016-10-28 (See also MP)
• Minutes from the meeting on 2016-08-31 (See also MP)
• Minutes from the meeting on 2016-02-17 (See also MP)
• Minutes from the meeting on 2016-01-27 (See also MP)

Archive

• Gender Equality Plan for the department for 2017
• Gender Equality Plan for the department for 2016
• Gender Equality Plan for the department for 2015
• Gender Equality Plan for the department for 2014
• Equity plan for the department for 2013
• Equity plan for the department for 2012 (Swedish only).
• Equity plan for the department for 2011 (Swedish only).
• Equity plan for the department for 2010 (Swedish only).
• Equity plan for the department for 2009 (Swedish only).
• Equity plan for the department for 2008 (Swedish only).
• Equity plan for the department for 2007 (Swedish only). (See also the plan for 2006.)
• Equity plan for the faculty 2007-2008 (Swedish only).
• Equity plan for the university 2007-2009 with action plan for 2007 (both English and Swedish). Note especially fortlöpande uppdrag till fakultetsnämnder och institutioner/motsvarande.
• The queer-sociological film seminar at the Dept of Sociology (fall 2006)
• Course in gender theory for PhD students, researchers and teachers at Uppsala University. Apply no later than September 8, 2006.
• Survey about gender equality and pedagogy at the IT department, by Sven Sandberg (Swedish only).
• Science Faculty equity committee (representative for our section is Elisabeth Larsson).
• Uppsala Universitety equity committee.

Older Minutes

• Minutes from the meeting on 2015-11-25 (See also MP)
• Minutes from the meeting on 2015-10-07-08 (See also MP)
• Minutes from the meeting on 2015-08-26 (See also MP)
• Minutes from the meeting on 2015-04-29 (See also MP)
• Minutes from the meeting on 2015-03-25 (See also MP)
• Minutes from the meeting on 2015-03-03
• Minutes from the meeting on 2015-01-28
• Minutes from the meeting on 2014-11-26
• Minutes from the meeting on 2014-10-29
• Minutes from the meeting on 2014-08-27
• Minutes from the meeting on 2014-05-28
• Minutes from the meeting on 2014-04-29
• Minutes from the meeting on 2014-03-26
• Minutes from the meeting on 2014-02-26
• Minutes from the meeting on 2013-10-23
• Minutes from the meeting on 2013-10-02
• Minutes from the meeting on 2013-05-29
• Minutes from the meeting on 2013-04-24
• Minutes from the meeting on 2013-03-22
• Minutes from the meeting on 2013-02-20
• Minutes from the meeting on 2012-12-14
• Minutes from the meeting on 2012-10-26