Rachel Palmén

Rachel Palmén is a Senior Researcher based at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona, Spain. She has worked on various European Commission funded projects to promote gender equality in research and innovation. She formed part of  EFFORTI  which developed an evaluation framework for promoting gender equality in R&I and resulted in various publications.

She worked on the TARGET project, the findings of which have been published in the book she co-edited, A Reflexive Approach to Structural Change. She also formed part of the ACT project, the findings of which are charted in the book she coedited, A Community of Practice Approach to Improving Gender Equality in Research.She is currently coordinator of INSPIRE: The European Centre of Excellence on Inclusive Gender Equality in Research and Innovation, a Horizon Europe project for five million euros over four years with 14 partners in Europe and Latin America.