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Karolinska Institutet: Annika Vanje leads the work on combating sexual harassment.

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ENPNewswire-October 9, 2019--Karolinska Institutet: Annika Vanje leads the work on combating sexual harassment

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Release date- 08102019 - Associate Professor Annika Vanje is the newly appointed research leader for a research and collaboration programme aimed at combating sexual harassment within academia which was started this past spring. She is now starting her work, aimed at creating a better work and study environment and, by extension, higher quality in the university's research and education.

In March, a national research and collaboration programme was launched to combat sexual harassment and gender-based vulnerability within academia. The initiative was conceived by Karolinska Institutet together with KTH and Malmo University but is based on a collaboration between the country's higher education institutions.

Now the programme's newly appointed research leader, Annika Vanje, Associate Professor at the Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, has been establishing herself at KI for a little over a month. She is a working life researcher with a focus on gender, work organisation and change management, and comes to KI from KTH.

'This feels great! I have been very well received and the preparatory work by the programme's coordination group has allowed me to dive right in, establishing my research group and an organisation for my work,' says Annika Vanje.

Her mission is to build up and coordinate the programme's research, which will be partly carried out at KI.

'At the moment, we lack the in-depth knowledge to work effectively in preventing these phenomena - for example, knowledge on why they occur and in which environments. In this work, KI can play an important role,' says Annika Vanje.

The programme will serve as a national knowledge node. Its purposes will...

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