The Science and Technology Policy Research Group announces the second event in its three-part lecture series, organized within the framework of the ongoing Gender-Diversity Project. The series examines key dimensions of diversity in academia, including diversity in research, research evaluation, and research leadership.
The upcoming lecture will be delivered by Associate Professor Mathias Wullum Nielsen (Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen). His presentation will address evaluative cultures, scientific performance, and gender disparities in academic careers.
Event Details
Speaker: Associate Professor Mathias Wullum Nielsen
Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen
Title: Gender, Careers and Scientific Performance
Abstract
In this talk, Nielsen will integrate insights from published and ongoing research on the link between scientific performance, evaluative cultures, and gender disparities in scientific careers. Drawing on bibliometric data, qualitative interviews with recruiters and funding evaluators, and longitudinal career data, he will examine how research specializations, assessment practices, and career structures intersect to shape research production and advancement opportunities in potentially gendered ways.
Bio
Mathias Wullum Nielsen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen. Combining a wide variety of data and methods, his research examines how scientific institutions are organized and how their norms, incentives, and hierarchical structures reproduce social disparities and shape careers and knowledge creation.
When:
Thursday, April 23, 2026
12:30–14:00
Where:
Augustenstraße 40, Room F1.12