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The post PhD period can include challenges and uncertainties around roles, locations, contracts and funding. This time of life also frequently coincides with personal change such as relationship change, family planning, buying of first homes, moving abroad and increased levels of travel. Mid-Career Scholars face new challenges in their academic career when starting a faculty position, e.g. a lectureship or an assistant professorship. In this period each scholar must find strategies to balance the different responsibilities in teaching, administration and research. Academics in this transition often make unconscious decisions about their style of leadership or teaching. An important element in dealing with these uncertainties and in taking conscious decisions is access to a strong network, the chance to plan and discuss career opportunities and the opportunity to discuss these issues with role models, mentors and coaches.
The Regional Studies Association supports this members’ led network specifically designed for female researchers in the fields of regional studies and regional science. The aim is to provide a platform for network building and to offer conversations with established female researchers in an informal setting.
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This workshop will explore the role of women in regional research. We will present research that highlights the role of women and girls at the regional scale. We will hear from two speakers: Costanza Giannantoni will discuss her research on women’s labour market outcomes, fertility choices, and domestic violence. Chandrima Mukhopadhay will discuss open questions in regional research question in relation to urban mobility and gender. We then invite the audience to discuss their experience of researching gendered or women-specific topics, and the challenges and opportunities they have faced.
Speaker: Costanza Giannantoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Costanza Giannantoni is a PostDoc Researcher in Public Economics at Sapienza University of Rome. Her research focuses on two main areas: local public finance and local economic development, as well as gender issues and the role of local public institutions in addressing them. In this context, she studies how institutional frameworks and public policies influence gender disparities in the labor market and gender-based violence.
Speaker: Chandrima Mukhopadhyay, Independent Consultant, India
Chandrima Mukhopadhyay has worked with UN-Habitat India as an independent Consultant, and is coordinator of the Association of European Schools of Planning’s Global South and East thematic group. She has a PhD from Newcastle University, UK. She was a visiting scholar for MIT-UTM Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program during 2017-2018, and then a Senior Research Associate at School of Arts and Science, Ahmedabad University, India for the OPTIMISM project. Her teaching and research areas include Public Private Partnerships in infrastructure delivery, urban transport, regional studies, southern urbanism, and climate actions. She is an editor of the Regional Studies Association’s journal on Regional Studies, Regional Science for the mentored early career section. She is a Regional Studies Association Fellow.
Chair: Carolin Ioramashvili, University of Sussex, UK
Carolin Ioramashvili is a Lecturer in Innovation Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex. She is currently the recipient of a British Academy Innovation Fellowship. For this project, she is working with the Evaluation Task Force in the UK Cabinet Office to improve evaluation for local growth policies. From 2021 to 2023, she was a research fellow at City-REDI and WM-REDI at the University of Birmingham. she got her PhD from the department of geography and environment at the London School of Economics, where she is also a visiting fellow. Carolin’s research interests are innovation and its role for regional development, labour markets and inequality.