IRC reaffirms commitment to integrating sex and gender analysis into research
Gender Strategy & Action Plan.
Highlights: Integration of sex/gender analysis in research content
Ensure that researchers have fully considered if their research contains a sex and/or gender dimension and, if so, that this is fully integrated it into the research content.
The Irish Research Council will:
- require applicants to indicate whether a potential sex and/or gender dimension is present or may arise in the course of their proposed research: o and, if so, outline how sex/gender analysis will be integrated into design, implementation, evaluation, interpretation and dissemination of the research results or, outline why it ‘s not relevant to the research proposal;
- facilitate researchers to identify and recognise if there is a potential sex and/or gender dimension in their proposed research through provision of reference materials and training sessions;
- provide guidance and training for Irish based researchers targeting international funding programmes where the sex/gender dimension is a review criterion;
- 24 ‘Promoting gender equality in research institutions and integration of gender dimension in research contents’, Proposal 618124 – GENDER-NET, FP7-ERANET 2013-RTD, SiS-2013-2.1.1-29
- provide guidance and training for Council peer review assessors to evaluate if a potential sex and/or gender dimension is present in proposed research and if so, how well the sex/gender analysis was integrated into the research content;
- include review of the sex and/or gender dimension in the ongoing monitoring and review process of funded research proposals, identified as relevant variables.
- partner with international organisations in the GENDER-NET25 to share lessons learned and utilise best practice in the development of future initiatives to ensure the integration of sex/gender analysis in research content.