School of Social and Political Science

Description

Higher education institutions (HEIs) worldwide have created important tools to report and prevent gender-based violence (GBV). HEIs are already developing training for their academic community. In designing these training courses, it is important to identify evidence and hoaxes or at least make it clear if there is or not enough evidence to support one action. This is the case of the training programme conducted at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2022. From there, Dr Olga Serradell Pumareda is working to identify actions which are successfully preventing GBV at the university.

In this seminar we will show a way to contribute to co-creation of scientific knowledge with social impact through the SAPPHO platform as a technique. We promote the public debate of the scientific evidence identified in the literature review on the SAPPHO open-access knowledge gender platform. Posts are written on the platform to enable dialogue with citizenry worldwide, especially with different agents involved in HEIs (students, academic and non-academic staff, victims and survivors).

We will learn how the scientific community and citizens can dialogue and report scientific evidence, create new knowledge on the social impact achieved by actions that are overcoming GBV and Isolating Gender Violence, giving the possibility to recreate them in other contexts, including HEIs.

This is a hybrid event which takes place in-person and online. Please indicate your preference when registering to attend.

Those who have opted to attend online will receive the link to the seminar shortly in advance on the day. Registered attendees should ensure they check their emails!

Please note that this event may be recorded. The recording will be used for internal University of Edinburgh teaching purposes only.

This event is co-badged with our colleagues from GENDER.ED

About our speaker

Olga Serradell, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Sociology and a researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She served as Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology from 2021 to 2024. Currently, she is a visiting academic at the University of Edinburgh, supported by a six-month scholarship funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science.

In 2008, she completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, funded by “la Caixa” and the French Government. At UAB, she has held two of the Spanish government's most competitive research contracts: the Juan de la Cierva as a junior researcher (2008-2011) and the Ramón y Cajal as a senior researcher (2014-2019).

Her research focuses on strategies to combat inequalities affecting vulnerable groups, with particular emphasis on ethnic minority women and gender-based violence in higher education institutions. Her work has been published in leading academic journals, including the European Journal of Women’s Studies, Qualitative Inquiry, Journal of Gender Studies or Behavioral Sciences among others. She is also an active member of the MeToo University movement.