Dr. Anke Lipinsky

Senior Researcher, Center of Excellence Women and Science CEWS, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Vita

Anke Lipinsky is senior researcher, Team CEWS. She holds a PhD in Comparative Cultural Studies. Anke carried out several mappings of gender equality policies in public research in the EU and policy environment analyses (2012 -2014). She chaired an EC-expert group which implemented an ex-ante impact assessment study to strengthen the role of structural change policies in the ERA. Anke currently is and was member of the advisory boards of SMARTmaps (2015-2018), GenderNetz (2017-2020) and NORDICORE (2017-2021); Visiting Researcher at Northeastern University, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Boston (US) in Autumn 2018; member of two Horizon 2020 advisory groups "Gender" and "Science with and for Society" and member of the EC expert group "Gendered Innovations 2.0"; advised the Lithuanian and Italian EU-presidencies in the field of Gender Equality; member of the International Advisory Board of the 7th, 8th, 9th,10th, and 11th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education in Bergen 2012, Wien 2014, Paris 2016, Dublin 2018, and Madrid 2021; co-speaker of DeGEval working group on gender mainstreaming (2020-2023). Anke is member of the international Women in Higher Education Management Network WHEM.

 

Focus of Work

Service
Conceptual development of tools for evaluating and implementing gender equality in higher education and research
Content development in the field of interventions against gender-based violence and sexual harassment in academia
Cooperation in international and European projects in the field of gender equality as well as policy advice at EU level
participation in EU-funded projects in FP6, FP7, Horizon 2020, and Horizon Europe: ENCOUWOMSCI, PLATWOMSCI, GenPORT (2013-2017); INTEGER (2011-2015), and GEECCO (2017-2021), and INSPIRE (2022-2026); research-based transfer on gender-based violence in academia.

Research
Anke's research focuses on impact assessments, evaluation and analysis of policy styles and their implementation in the field of gender and research including research funding in the European Union. She has extensive expertise in policy analysis, evaluation and efficacy assessments in the field of gender and research as well as on the application of qualitative and quantitative social science methods in this thematic area. She evaluated gender equality plans of universities and research organizations in several countries. Anke is PI on the online prevalence survey in the Horizon 2020-funded research project UniSAFE (2021-2024).

Research and Practice projects (selection)

Publications (selection)

Pilinkaite Sotirovic, Vilana, Anke Lipinsky, Katarzyna Struzińska, and Beatriz Ranea Triviño. 2024. ""You can knock on the doors and windows of the university, but nobody will care”: How universities benefit from network silence around gender-based violence." Social Sciences 13 (4): 199. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13040199 . https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13040199.

Lipinsky, Anke. 2024 (Forthcoming). "Wie Prävalenzstudien die Prävention von geschlechtsbezogener Gewalt in der Wissenschaft begünstigen ." In #MeToo in Science , edited by Claudia Mahs, Antje Langer, Birgit Riegraf, Katja Sabisch, Beate von Miquel, and Irmgard Pilgrim, Geschlecht & Gesellschaft. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Humbert, Anne Laure, Sofia Strid, Jagriti Tanwar, Anke Lipinsky, and Claudia Schredl. 2024. "The role of intersectionality and context in measuring gender-based violence in universities and research performing organisations in Europe for the development of inclusive structural interventions." Violence Against Women online first. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012241231773.

Lipinsky, Anke, and Claudia Schredl. 2023. "International vergleichende Forschung über Formen geschlechtsbezogener Gewalt in Wissenschaftsorganisationen." In Sexualisierte Belästigung, Diskriminierung und Gewalt im Hochschulkontext, edited by Heike Pantelmann, and Sabine Blackmore, 43-54. Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-40467-3_4 

Lipinsky, Anke, and Angela Wroblewski. 2021. "Re-visiting gender equality policy and the role of university top management." In Gender and power in higher education in a globalised world: Where to now?, edited by Pat O'Connor, and Kate White, Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education, 163-186. Palgrave Macmillan. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69687-0_8 

Löther, Andrea, Nina Steinweg, Anke Lipinsky, and Hannah Meyer. 2021. "Gut oder unzureichend? Wirkung und Wirkungsmessung von gleichstellungspolitischen Maßnahmen." Forschung & Lehre (3): 188-189.

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Keywords

gender, equality, policy analysis, evaluation, impact assessment, EU research policy, gender-based violence in academia

Casegroup

Social Sciences