Three early-career scientists from the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) recently took part in a workshop at the John Innes Centre (JIC) in Norwich. The workshop was supported by the Rosalind Franklin Women in Wheat Champions programme, an initiative created to help women to progress to senior academic positions in wheat research. The workshop training covered project management in science with a particular focus on removing gender bias in research.
JIC and ICARDA are working together on the UK-CGIAR Centre’s crop genetic improvement project. The main goals of the project are to improve the climate resilience of wheat crops and create breeds with higher levels of iron. One of the project’s impact areas concerns gender, youth and inclusion. The project team aims to attract, mentor and help advance the careers women and young scientists in CGIAR and partner breeding programmes to help reduce gender gaps. Workshops such as the one recently held at JIC play a key role in helping to advance this goal.
Dr Anna Backhaus, one of the leads on the UK-CGIAR Centre’s crop genetic improvement project, has written a blog post covering the workshop for ICARDA’s website.
You can read the full blog post here.