The research project on Gender Justice in STEM in Africa (https://gejusta.net/) is a collaboration between University of Cape Town (South Africa), Makerere University (Uganda) and Sheffield University, together with other partners. Funded by the Canadian International Development Research Council (IDRC), it focuses on tackling gender inequality in STEM subjects at African universities, and in the workplace, in particular in digital technologies, human-computer interaction and data science roles.
IGSD Fellows and affiliated researchers co-lead work packages, including Examining Barriers and Enablers for Women in STEM Research (activist and Sheffield PhD researcher Chisenga Muyoya), Increasing Female Representation in Data Science in Africa by Learning from Feminised STEM Fields (Dr Suvodeep Mazumdar, I-School and IGSD Fellow), Mainstreaming Gender Analysis and Gender-aware Design Methodologies (Prof Dorothea Kleine, IGSD Fellow).
The whole international project team came together at Cape Town University to share first results, plan research activities and policy engagement, as well as engaging in interdisciplinary theory development and data analysis.