Mathias Wullum Nielsen is a researcher at the Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy. Over the course of the last three years, Mathias has worked intensively with the question of gender stratification in Danish academia, and he recently turned in his thesis under the title “New and Persistent Gender Equality Challenges in Academia”. In his presentation, Mathias will focus on the question of how gender relations are reconstituted in a rapidly changing academic context characterized by increasing demands for international competitiveness, innovation, flexibility and accountability. Moreover, he will address some of the structural barriers and cumulative disadvantages slowing women researcher’s advancement in the academy.

Mathias Wullum Nielsen, Dept. of Political Sciences