Project: Gender Equitable Interactions Online (GEiO): Supporting gender equity in work-based videoconferencing

Acronym	GEiO (Reference Number: CHANSE-967)
Duration	01/09/2022 - 01/09/2025
Project Topic	This psychosocial research project (GEiO) takes an innovative multi-method approach to explore how gendered, intersectionally shaped, power dynamics are manifested in digitally mediated work relations in online group meetings. This project draws on interdisciplinary excellence across four international teams (Britain, Germany, Iceland and Spain), building on and extending previous work that has demonstrated the negative consequences of gender inequities on working lives as well as the increased demand that organisations function within parameters of social and legal acceptability around human rights. This timely project extends this research base to focus on the accelerated rise in virtual working during Covid-19 which looks set to continue into the future for many organisations. A key aim is to build new transnational evidence on the currently unexplored ways in which digital videoconferencing innovations can be used to support or resist gender inequity at work. Three different and complementary methods will be used to explore the micro, meso and macro processes that are relevant in this context. Ethical approval will be sought from relevant bodies with specific attention to issues around obtaining informed consent from employees and corporate privacy. The research findings will make a contribution to the academic literature on othering, technology and viable contemporary work subjectivities, as well as provide a firm basis for knowledge exchange with private sector organisations, to develop evidence-based training and policy that better respond to the needs of those who have experienced gendered discrimination in a digital work context. Outputs include academic publications on online gender display and dynamics, processes of othering in online work contexts and gendered harassment. An accredited micro credential training course on gender equitable interactions online will be produced and translated into the languages used in each of the partner locations.
Network	CHANSE
Call	Transformations: Social and Cultural Dynamics in the Digital Age

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
1	The Open University	Coordinator	United Kingdom
2	Technische Hochschule Deggendorf	Partner	Germany
3	University of Iceland	Partner	Iceland
4	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Partner	Spain
5	Universitat Rovira i Virgili	Partner	Spain
6	RFE International Limited	Observer	United Kingdom