Liisa Husu

Hanken School of Economics

Project Manager of NASTA, Women's Leadership Research, Education and Development Project http://www.nastaproject.fi

Professor in Gender Studies, Örebro University, 2011-

Guest Professor in Gender Studies, Örebro University, Sweden, 2009-2010

Docent, University of Tampere, Women's Studies http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/sostut/engl/about/women.php

2002-2008 Research Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/english/

1997-2002 Researcher, University of Helsinki, Department of Social Psychology, Academy of Finland funded Research Project Gender in Academia

International Sociological Association, Research Committee 32, member of the board http://www.isa-sociology.org/rc32.htm 2002-2010

European Platform of Women Scientists EPWS, member of the board, http://www.epws.org/

Rapporteur, European Commission DG Research expert group on Gender and Excellence 2008-2009, report The Gender Challenge in Research Funding (EC 2009). See editorial of Nature on the report:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7245/full/459299a.html

European Network on Gender Equality in Higher Education, moderator of the listserve eq-uni, with nearly 500 members

University of Helsinki gender equality prize, the Maikki Friberg Prize, awarded 2009 (in Finnish: http://www.helsinki.fi/tutkimus/palkitut/husu.html)

Research Interest

Gender dynamics and gender relations in organisations
Academic and scientific organisations
Gender and knowledge production
Gender approaches in science, technology and engineering
Gender and leadership
Gender equality, Equality policy
Higher education policy, science policy
International comparative research

Selected publications

"Understanding Gender: Some Implications for Science and Technology". With Jeff Hearn. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews vol. 36:2 (2011) 103-113.
Mot mer jämställda universitet? En internationell översikt över strategier och åtgärder. Stockholm: Delegationen för jämställdhet i högskolan, rapport 6:2010. .
Leadership through the Gender Lens. Women and Men in Organisations. Edited with Jeff Hearn, Anna-Maija Lämsä and Sinikka Vanhala. Hanken School or Economics Research Reports 71, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10227/753.
"Gendering Excellence in Technological Research: A Comparative European Perspective". With Paula Koskinen. Journal of Technology, Management and Innovation. 2010 (5) 1, 127-139. http://www.jotmi.org/index.php/GT/article/view/art148/529
"What does it take to get to the top? Women at the top of technological research". With Paula Koskinen. In: Godfroy-Genin, Ann-Sophie (ed.): Women in Engineering and Technology Research. Berlin: Lit Verlag 2010, pp. 303-326.
"Gender and gatekeeping of excellence in research funding: European perspectives". With Suzanne de Cheveigné. In Riegraf, Birgit/ Aulenbacher, Birgitte/ Kirsch-Auwärter, Edit/Müller, Ursula (Eds.): GenderChange in Academia: Re-mapping the fields of work, knowledge, and politics from a gender perspective. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag 2010, pp.43-59.
"Gender and excellence in research funding: European perspectives". With Suzanne de Cheveigné and Christian Suter. In Julia Leemann and Heidi Stutz (eds.) Forschungsförderung in wissenschaftlichen Laufbahnen: Zugang, Erfolg, Bedeutung und Wirkung aus Geschlechterperspektive. Zürich: Rüegger 2010, pp. 181-201.
The Gender Challenge in Research Funding. Brussels: Office for the Official Publications of the European Communities 2009 (Rapporteur). http://tinyurl.com/ecgender
"Women and universities in Finland: relative advances and continuing contradictions". pp. 89-111 in Mary Ann Danowitz Sagaria (eds.): Women, Universities, and Change. New York: Palgrave - Macmillan 2007.
Tiede, tieto ja sukupuoli, ed. with Kristina Rolin. Helsinki: Gaudeamus 2005. (review in Finnish by Sanna Kivimäki: http://www.kiiltomato.net/liisa-husu-kristiina-rolin-tiede-tieto-ja-sukupuoli/).
"Women's work-related and family-related discrimination and support in Academia". Advances in Gender Research (Gender Realities: Local and Global) Vol. 9 (2005):161-199.
Dold diskriminering på akademiska arenor: osynligt, synligt, subtilt. Högskoleverket (Sverige), Rapport 2005: 41R, available at http://www.hsv.se/download/18.539a949110f3d5914ec800079028/0541R.pdf
"Naisystävällisempään yliopistoon? Tiedenaiset ja muutoksen visiot." Naistutkimus - Kvinnoforskning 17 (2004):1, 4-21, available at http://www.opiskelijakirjasto.lib.helsinki.fi/eres/kayt/husu4-21.pdf
"On Metaphors on the Position of Women in Academia and Science". NORA – Nordic Journal of Women’s Studies 9 (2001):3, 172–181
Sexism, Support and Survival in Academia. Academic Women and Hidden Discrimination in Finland. University of Helsinki, Social Psychological Studies 6, 2001.
Higher Education in Europe (UNESCO/CEPES journal) 25 (2000):2, Special Issue: Academe and Gender: What Has and Has Not Changed. Edited with Louise Morley, also published in French as Le monde académique et les femmes: ce qui a et qui n’a pas changé, Enseignement supérieur en Europe, XXV (2000): 2.
"Gender Discrimination in the Promised Land of Gender Equality". Higher Education in Europe 25 (2000): 2, 221–228.
Hard Work in the Academy. Ed. with P. Fogelberg, J. Hearn and T. Mankkinen. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press 1999.
"Finland". With Pirkko Niemelä. pp. 59–76 in Leonore Loeb Adler (Ed.), International Handbook of Gender Roles. Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press 1993.