Abstract

The inclusion of the gender dimension in research and innovation is now widely recognised as a key requirement for scientific quality, methodological rigor and social relevance. Major funding agencies and leading scientific publishers increasingly require researchers to explicitly address sex and/or gender analysis in their projects, or to provide a well-reasoned justification when it is not applicable. This presentation will introduce and discuss eight key steps for systematically integrating sex and/or gender considerations throughout the research process.

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Professor of Sociology at the University of Valencia and PhD in Sociology from the University of London. Recipient of the 2025 Spanish National Sociology Award. She has served as President of the Association of Women Researchers and Technologists; Director of the Women and Science Unit at the Ministry of Education and Science; Research Counsellor at Spain’s Permanent Representation to the European Union; and Director General for Equality in Employment and Director of the Office of International Relations at Spain’s first Ministry of Equality. She has held teaching and research appointments at several international universities, including Harvard University, Stanford University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), among others.

Her main research interests include the sociology of science with a gender dimension, non-sexist analytical methodologies, the sociology of education, gender-sensitive public policies, and power relations within intimate partnerships. She is the author and co-author of approximately 150 articles, books and book chapters. She is the creator and instructor of an online course on the integration of the sex/gender perspective in research and innovation, taught in Spanish and English at nearly twenty universities in Spain and abroad. She is also co-creator of the CaDi software, an inclusive language translation tool.

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