Uk approves Ufal project on gender equality declaration – Federal University of Alagoas

The program, presented by the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), in collaboration with two other Brazilian universities, was approved in a public announcement. Women in Science: Call for a Brazil-UK Gender Equality Partnership 2022. “The aim of the call is to influence the development of institutional policies and practices that allow for the establishment of gender equality in science and technology in higher education and research institutions in Brazil”, highlighted the British Council’s presentation.

The decision was announced on November 28 and the implementation of the scheme will take place from January 2023 to January 2024. The British university developing the program coordinated by Ufal is the University of Wolverhampton. It is coordinated by Professor Magna Susana Alexandre Moreira, Coordinator of the Laboratory of Pharmacology and Immunology (LAFI) and Research Coordinator of Research and Graduate Studies (PROPEB). But other researchers form the group at ufal. Professor Aline Cavalcanti de Queiroz (a researcher at Uffal-Arabiraga and Lafi) and postdoc Letizia Lopes who led the collaboration with the United Kingdom.

The public announcement aims to intensify partnerships between Brazilian companies and companies certified by British companies. Athena Swan Charter, an organization that recognizes “good practices in higher education and research institutions to advance gender equality.” According to Magna, these are proposals to strengthen the participation of women in the field of science, overcoming challenges that make it difficult for women scientists to play a prominent role in their fields of expertise.

Uffall’s collaboration with the University of Wolverhampton (UW-UK) took place with Leticia Lopes, a postgraduate student in the Laboratory of Pharmacology and Immunology, and Professor Olivia Corcoran, who works in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry. of Science at VIDA (UW-UK), and was his internship supervisor for the Science Without Borders project. “Professor Olivia expressed her desire to collaborate with Ufaal to compete in this public announcement. We did this project together with two other universities in Brazil, we streamlined the project in a week and we were approved,” Magna celebrates.

Post-doc Letícia Lopes said, “This partnership is important to strengthen the relationship between the United Kingdom and Uffal, and may open the way to new partnerships and, through this project, promote gender equality in scientific research, especially in STEM areas . Their representatives have a majority of men. This project opens doors for our students. We hope to open.

The development of the project envisages some actions to present the data with two face-to-face meetings and five virtual meetings. “The first face-to-face meeting will take place in April 2023 in Brazil. “We will have representatives from UK, Ufal, UFRJ and UEMA. At the end of the project, a face-to-face evaluation meeting will be held in the UK,” informs the coordinator.