Launch and agenda setting for the new ENoLL Working Group on Gender in Innovation
TIME
11:00 – 12:45
TRACKS
TRACK 3: Living Labs for Inclusive Soci(et)al Engagement
ORGANISER
Andree Woodcock (Coventry University)
DESCRIPTION
Join the launch session of the Gender in Innovation Working Group, hosted by ENoLL and led by Andree Woodcock. This session marks the starting point for shaping the group’s future activities and priorities. If you’re eager to advance gender equality in Living Labs, this is your opportunity to collaborate with founding members and fellow participants to share insights, identify key challenges, and co-design a practical action plan for the next year.
Together, we will define the group’s agenda and lay the groundwork for impactful, community-driven initiatives that promote more inclusive innovation.
Agenda
1. Opening Discussion & Introductions
• Share your motivations and interests in gender equality within Living Labs
• Explore key concerns and challenges participants face regarding gender equality within Living Labs
2. Co-Creation of an Action Plan
•. Collaboratively design a roadmap for the upcoming year, establishing clear goals and objectives for the group’s efforts
3. Defining Roles & Responsibilities
• Assign roles to bring the action plan to life, e.g., managing social media, organizing events/webinars, or writing pieces of thought
4. Critical Review of the Gender Innovation Checklist
• Analyze and refine the gender innovation checklist within Living Labs
SPEAKER BIO
Andree Woodcock
Chair Educational Ergonomics and Design
Andree Woodcock
Chair Educational Ergonomics and DesignI am a longstanding member of Coventry City lab, and a member of ENOLL executive committee and the Land C subcommittee. I have worked at Coventry as a researcher since 1999 and am Chair of Educational Ergonomics and Design, Driving my research is the belief that applying systems-thinking and user-centred design principles drawn from ergonomics and design research can be applied to and solve many of the wicked problems we face today. In this, the key for greater inclusion and recognition of the needs and contributions of all sectors of society is paramount. This requires the development and application of inclusive methods to understand these needs, empathy fed by an in depth understanding of the lived experience and a willingness on the part of stakeholders (such as designers, municipalities and agencies) to use this information in the application and development of inclusive approaches, systems and products. Most of my research has been located within design departments, looking at applying systemic design research to wicked problems in health, education, mobility, sustainability and gender. I have led successful national and EU funded projects in excess of £15m, all featuring ‘hard to reach groups’ most recently within the field of transport. The proposal builds on the following projects. H2020 TInnGO (2019-2021): to develop a Pan European Transport innovation Gender Observatory and 10 hubs across Europe creating a step change in gender and mobility across transport through use of gender action plans and gender mainstreaming. (approx. 3 million euros): role PI WEMOBILE (2018-2019) project to understand the lived experiences of women in Malaysia and Pakistan and the effects of gender transport poverty and everyday harassment (approx. £45 K): role PI H2020 CIVITAS SUITS 2016-2020): capacity building to develop sustainable mobility projects in small to medium local authorities (approx. 4 million euros) : role PI Empathic design and elders: Frank Jackson Foundation (2016-2019) looking at ways to encourage transport design and engineering students to be empathic in consideration of older transport users. (approx. 30K). Role PI FP7 METPEX: (2013-2016) project to develop pan- European tool to measure the quality of multimodal, end to end traveller journey (approx. 3 million euros) P1: role PI Elder’s mobility needs University pump priming (2016) to deliver co-design workshops in UK and USA. PI: £10K Evaluation of early adopters experiences of the use of e-vehicle: EPSRC, n/d A multistakeholder evaluation of a full scale, working electric bus: Consultancy: 2010 Developing intelligent zero-emissions vehicles, Science city project with Birmingham, RDM and Microcab, 2009 Investigating the safety and security of women drivers and their passengers DETR (2001): PI £100K