As part of our Equal Opportunities activities, we are planning a video campaign on women in science to be broadcast on social media and our NCCR MSE website starting end of May/beginning of June 2025. The videos will address topics women in their careers often face, with a special focus on the challenges and successes they have experienced during their academic life. The aim of this campaign is to encourage young female talents to go for careers in mint subjects and to motivate young professionals that are already working in scientific fields to continue their careers in academia.
According to a study conducted by the Federal Statistical Office in 2023, the proportion of women decreases as you move up the academic career ladder (from joining a university to the highest position in university research).
With this video series, we want to address exactly this issue and offer women a platform to share their personal experiences with others and encourage them to pursue their academic careers. In a first phase the films are intended to show the situation only from the perspective of women, as they are both the main protagonists and our target group. In a second phase and depending on the echo these films create, we envisage to expand the scope to include other perspectives.
The whole series will feature an introductory video to set the scene with background information on general equal opportunity research findings and specific research done within our NCCR. This first video will be followed by six further videos on various career topics, i.e. choice of study, research work, importance of international exposure and work-life balance. To better understand today’s scientists’ viewpoint on these various topics we interviewed 7 women within our NCCR MSE in various academic positions on PhD, Postdoc and PI level.
To give you a first glimpse of the upcoming video series our videographers have cut a teaser.
The pictures give you a glimpse into the first very exciting shooting days we had in the beginning of April. Stay tuned for more info to come!
