Dr Rachel Palmén is a Senior Researcher at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3 – UOC) in Barcelona, Spain where she forms part of the Gender and ICT research program. Her current research interests include gender equality and science – specifically looking at the implementation of inclusive gender equality plans and policies from an intersectional perspective.
She has worked on various different European Commission funded projects in the realm of gender and science. She formed part of the EFFORTI project which developed an evaluation framework for promoting gender equality in R&I and as part of this work she co-ordinated 19 case studies of gender equality interventions in R&I throughout Europe. She also worked on the TARGET project, which supported institutional transformation in RPOs, RFOs and a network of higher education engineering schools in the Mediterranean – the findings of which are available in the book she co-edited, ‘A Reflexive Approach to Structural Change’. She also formed part of the ACT-on-Gender project, which established 8 communities of practice for advancing gender equality in research and innovation – the findings of which are charted in the book she co- edited “A Community of Practice Approach to Improving Gender Equality in Research”. She also took part in the FP7 GenPORT project. She is currently coordinator of INSPIRE: The European Centre of Excellence on Inclusive Gender Equality in Research and Innovation. This is a Horizon Europe project for 5 million euros over 4 years with 14 partners in Europe and Latin America.