The INSPIRE project has launched a new Support Package containing practical tools to help strengthen gender equality, diversity, and inclusion efforts to effect lasting change in universities and research and innovation organisations. It is aimed at practitioners, researchers, activists, students, and communities involved in diversity and equality work in higher education and research, and presents up-to-date research insights, strategies and resources.

In line with the mission of the INSPIRE project, this latest support package emphasises the importance of adopting an intersectional approach that transcends traditional Western notions of gender equality, aiming to incorporate and prioritise diverse identities and perspectives. It therefore helps to monitor gender equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives in research and higher education, applying an intersectional focus and overcoming potential backlash.

The INSPIRE Support Package 4 on sustaining and deepening change was created by GenTIC researchers Rachel Palmén (INSPIRE coordinator) and Aran Romero Moreno (project manager), together with consortium members Molly Occhino, Liv Baisner Petersen and Rikke Juel Madsen from the University of Southern Denmark.

You can find more information about the INSPIRE Support Packages and access all the project’s resources and materials on this website, around the following five thematic areas:

1.         Setting up a Community of Practice (CoP) for equality work

2.         Setting up an Inclusive Gender Equality Plan (iGEP)

3.         Boosting impact

4.         Sustaining and deepening change

5.         Improving the quality and equality of R&I.