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Team leaders and other immediate supervisors play an important role in facilitating inclusiveness within public organisations. An interview with public administration expert Tanachia Ashikali of Leiden University.

Aimee van Wynsberghe has received the Dutch For Women In Science award. The award was extended by L’Oréal and UNESCO, together with the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) and the Dutch Network of Women Professors (LNVH).

Dr Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam and Dr Monique van der Veen, both of the faculty of Applied Sciences at the TU Delft, will receive the NWO Athena Prize 2018 at the CHAINS chemistry conference on 4 December.

Despite the fact that more and more women are pursuing careers in STEM – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – the gender gap is still significant. The good news is that at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, the number of women has consistently increased over the last years.

To what extent does the environment at research universities and universities of applied sciences contribute to an open, healthy and inclusive working environment? ScienceGuide has put together a dossier with articles, reports, news items and interviews on a range of subjects related to an open, healthy and inclusive working environment. What works well and what doesn't work when it comes to promoting diversity in the workplace? In a series of articles, professors at universities of applied sciences and others explain their approach and research into these issues. The ScienceGuide dossier also contains articles on the role of the confidential adviser and news about the emancipation of women in science and academia. See the dossier on the ScienceGuide website here.