Transforming Research Methodologies in EU Life Sciences and Biomedicine

Klinge, Ineke; Bosch, Mineke

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“…The conclusions were that it had not received adequate attention in all projects and that the research was therefore not as good as it could have been (Klinge and Bosch 2001;2005;European Commission 2010). In the 6th Framework Programme (2002-6), the Commission insisted upon a better gender balance among research teams, and that each research team should include in their proposals a Gender Action Plan, stipulating how the gender dimension would be addressed in the project.…”

Section: Gender In Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Gendered Construction of Scientific Excellence

Rees

2011

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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Academics sign up to the concept of promoting excellence in research by valuing 'objectivity', independence, theoretical frameworks and an evidence base, even while we might argue about meanings of these concepts and how they should be operationalized. We share a commitment to peer review, even though some may have concerns about invisible biases which may be built into some of the mechanisms we employ to conduct it. So, how do we explain the extraordinarily robust and sustained role that gender continues to play in organizing the academy? Moreover, how do we understand the neglect of the gender dimension in so much research? This paper considers the ways in which gender cuts across the allocation of academic opportunities. It raises questions about the implications of the gendering of the academy on who decides who and what is 'excellent'. It then outlines concerns about the neglect of the gender dimension in research processes. It concludes with recommendations on how to address the gender imbalance in the academy and enhance the attention to gender in research.

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Section: Gender In Researchmentioning

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The Gendered Construction of Scientific Excellence

Rees

2011

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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“…Feminists are concerned with the implications of the exclusion of women's knowledge and experience of the traditional male constructions of knowledge. In biomedicine, for example, Klinge & Bosch (2005) observe that feminist involvement came in response to the way in which women were treated in the medical establishment in the 1970s. As these authors observe, what emerged was the exposure of the 'male norm in research and treatment .…”

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Getting quality in qualitative research: A short introduction to feminist methodology and methods

Landman

2006

Proc. Nutr. Soc.

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The present paper reflects a practical activity undertaken by the Nutrition Society's qualitative research network in October 2005. It reflects the structure of that exercise. First, there is an introduction to feminist methodology and methods. The informing premise is that feminist methodology is of particular interest to practitioners (professional and/or academic) engaged in occupations numerically dominated by women, such as nutritionists. A critical argument is made for a place for feminist methodology in related areas of social research. The discussion points to the differences that exist between various feminist commentators, although the central aims of feminist research are broadly shared. The paper comprises an overview of organizing concepts, discussion and questions posed to stimulate discussion on the design and process of research informed by feminist methodology. Issues arising from that discussion are summarized. Feminist methodology and methods: Social reality: Lived experience BackgroundThe workshop reported here was part of a programme focused on qualitative research methods. As stated in the network convenor's introductory remarks, the importance of sustained professional attention to this area rests on the imperatives for competency in qualitative research methods now expected of public health practitioners. This is the better to establish the foundation for the participatory, transformative work in community development that the current policy context demands. In this context, nutritionists grapple with the challenges of quality in qualitative research, as do other health professionals. The workshop provided an opportunity to engage with a philosophy underpinning qualitative research methods and methodology, drawing on the presenter's experience of teaching feminist research methodology and methods within a postgraduate programme for health professionals. Specifically, such competence requires a critical understanding that the nature of evidence, for the development of policy and practice that are effective, should take account of lived experience that cannot be captured in experiments or trials; i.e. to generate understanding of the attitudes, challenges, aspirations, uncertainties and emotions contexts that inform decisions about food and feeding. Nutritionists, therefore, are increasingly required to engage with broader definitions of evidence; that which is context-sensitive and associated with social science-oriented research (Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, 2005). In the present workshop the focus was on the contributions of feminist methodology to the enterprise of building quality in generating evidence about the lived experience of women; the informing premise is that social realities are gendered and, in the interests of context-sensitive evidence, this factor has to be acknowledged at all stages of the research process.

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“…We asked the authors to address the following questions: (1) What is the state of the art in integrating sex and gender issues in the methodologies of basic, translational, clinical, and public health research? (2) What do we know?…”

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“…A long standing policy goal has been to promote gender equality. This policy has become enshrined in consecutive treaties and was for the first time applied to research under Framework Programme 5 (FP5) [1] Mainstreaming gender equality in research embraces both the stimulation of the participation of women in research at all levels and the consideration of the gender dimension of the research content.…”

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Gender perspectives in European research

Klinge

2008

Pharmacological Research

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a b s t r a c tBackground: Attention to sex and gender aspects in biomedical and health-related research has been a major initiative of the EU gender equality policy for research. The EU funded GenderBasic project (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008), conceived to stimulate this attention to sex and gender and to provide practical tools to researchers, resulted in the publication of 10 reviews by high-level scientists in a Supplement to Gender Medicine in December 2007: "Bringing Gender Expertise to Biomedical and Health-Related Research". Methods: Four commissioned reviews covered methodological aspects of addressing sex and gender in biomedical research -ranging from basic, molecular to public health research -next to six reviews that addressed sex and gender aspects relevant to selected health areas: anxiety disorders, asthma, metabolic syndrome, nutrigenomics, osteoporosis and work-related health. Results: The review articles, that were discussed at an expert meeting, attended -upon invitation -by a mixed audience of basic and clinical researchers, epidemiologists, social scientists and gender researchers, came up with excellent state of the art data, solutions to methodological and conceptual problems, practical tools and interesting questions for further research. Conclusion:The expert meeting created great enthusiasm among the participants and a real exchange took place among researchers from various backgrounds. Most life sciences researchers were familiar with the concept of sex differences but confessed that the effects of socially constructed gender until now, had received too little attention.The GenderBasic project yielded three major achievements for European research: (1) it stimulated and promoted research into sex differences; (2) it stimulated research into the workings of gender, illustrated by useful examples in particular in understanding masculinity and its effects on the health of individual men; (3) it highlighted sex-gender interaction and granted gender a prominent place on the research agenda that resulted from GenderBasic. A final conclusion of the project was that it is not differences per se that are interesting but rather how, as a result of the interaction between sex and gender, differences develop.The European Commission selected the GenderBasic project itself as an excellent example of the positive impacts EU research can achieve and the project will be featured in a catalogue of 6th Framework Success Stories.

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Transforming Research Methodologies in EU Life Sciences and Biomedicine

Cited by 21 publications

References 10 publications

The Gendered Construction of Scientific Excellence

The Gendered Construction of Scientific Excellence

Getting quality in qualitative research: A short introduction to feminist methodology and methods

Gender perspectives in European research

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