A practical guide to incorporating the gender perspective into end-of-degree final projects

Have you ever considered how gender roles can influence your academic work? From the choice of the topic to the dissemination of the results, we may reproduce gender biases without realizing it, e.g. by selecting sources with only male authors, selecting an imbalanced study sample, or analysing results without considering gender differences. These limit our understanding of the topic, and affect the conclusions of the bachelor's or master's degree final project. To prevent this, the UOC's new library guide offers you resources to incorporate the gender perspective into all phases of your work.

This guide, created in partnership with UOC teaching staff and the Library team, offers you a varied selection of information sources, including manuals, checklists, glossaries, guides and other specific content for diverse knowledge areas.

What can it help you with?

• Identifying and avoiding gender biases that can have an impact on your degree final project.
• Finding specific examples of how the gender perspective can be applied in different knowledge areas.
• Reviewing instructions for writing, searching for information and selecting images to illustrate the project or presentation. 

What will you find in it?

• Starting point: resources for reflecting on the importance of including the gender perspective in your degree final project, such as the infographic How to conduct research with a gender perspective?, which provides a step-by-step summary of what to do.
• Choice of topic: guidelines for selecting the topic, taking gender inequalities and their implications into account.
• Theoretical framework: references for constructing a consistent and thorough theoretical framework, including a glossary of terms related to feminism, women, equality and gender-based violence.
• Methodology: practical resources that you need to take into account when choosing an image, writing content and searching for sources of information, in order to avoid gender bias and to ensure that your analysis is inclusive.
• Impact, dissemination and transfer of results: tips for communicating research results in a way that reflects the importance of the gender perspective.
• Other resources by faculties: content designed for different knowledge areas.

This Library Guide is more than a collection of resources, it's a starting point for conducting research with a fairer and more objective approach.

Experts

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  Mireia Castillón

  Operative subgroup: Law and Political Science resource manager, vocational training, gender perspective Operative group: Library for Learning