Our Reflections

At Gender at Work, we are committed to reflection as both a political and pedagogical act, using it to reveal insights, challenge assumptions, and adapt our practices. Our approach to learning is emergent: shaped by context, grounded in feminist values and open to the unknown. We see learning as both a method and a muscle: something strengthened through practice, vulnerability and shared reflection.

Learning from our AI Research and COVID journey: What does it take to have more inclusive and gender responsive AI-driven health research?

In this final blogpost of the AI Research and COVID: Journeys to Gender Equality and Inclusion series, Carol Miller and Marie-Katherine (Kate) Waller reflect on the key threads of this blog series that emerged from Gender at Work and research grantees’ collaboration in an 18-month gender action learning process in the AI4COVID program. They also highlight how researcher journeys, and the GAL process demonstrated the importance of creating safe spaces for learning and the value of multidisciplinary collaboration in supporting social transformation.

Meeting the world, the work, and colleagues in new ways: Working emergently in sustaining an online learning community

In early 2020, Gender at Work (G@W) was invited by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), to partner in a project to support science granting councils (SGCs) across the African continent, to advance gender transformation in relation to science, technology and innovation (STI).

A calling to do the work

Mitchel Ondili, Research Assistant at The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT), Nairobi, Kenya, reflects on her engagement in a Gender at Work’s action learning process in the context of our work with IDRC Cyber Policy Centres.