Supranational and cross-national research funding structures bring to the fore the differential importance of national location and gender in such decision making fora. It shows how gender bias persists in institutional contexts supportive of gender equality. The data is drawn from a case study of research funding (EUR 3million), in a Swedish led, Nordic research consortium. Using documentary research, questionnaires and interviews, it shows that although 45 per cent of all research applications and roughly 40 per cent of those assessed as excellent were led by women, only 22 per cent were funded. Two critical intervention points are identified. O'Connor, P. and Fauve-Chamoux (2015), A. European Policies and Research Funding: A Case Study of Gender Inequality and Lack of Diversity in a Nordic Research Programme' Policy and Politics
O'Connor, P. and Fauve-Chamoux (2015), A. European Policies and Research Funding: A Case Study of Gender Inequality and Lack of Diversity in a Nordic Research Programme' Policy and Politics
Keywords: research funding; gender; lack of diversity; case study;