For the first time in more than 600 years the University of Rostock will be headed by a woman. Kinomatics researcher Elizabeth Prommer, has smashed the ivory ceiling and succeeds the 908 men that previously occupied top position at Germany’s third oldest university. Elizabeth steps into to the new appointment in April 2023, from […]
Researchers Elizabeth Prommer, Deb Verhoeven and Skadi Loist won Top Media Industries Paper at the 2022 International Communication Association Conference for their paper “Creative Teams and Gender Inequality in the Screen Industry-A Social Network Approach.” This work applied Social Network Analysis to a dataset of German Film Producers, Directors and Writers from 2009 to 2016 […]
Kinomatics researchers Deb Verhoeven and Katarzyna Musial along with UTS colleagues Gerhard Hambusch, Samir Ghannam & Mikhail Shashnov’s have published an important new work, “Net effects: examining strategies for women’s inclusion and influence in ASX200 company boards”. The article, which has been downloaded almost 2500 times in just a few months, has made a splash by […]
Kinomatics team members Professor Elizabeth Prommer and Professor Skadi Loist have recently lent their expertise to the discussion of LGBTQ representation in the media and film industry. 185 German actors made headlines for coming out publicly “en masse” in order to advocate for better representation both and off-screen. The #ActOut movement seeks to shed light […]
Kinomatic’s researcher Deb Verhoeven’s groundbreaking gender analysis of grant recipients has been printed onto hard lemonade cans by Sparkke Change Beverage Company. Sparkke Change’s award winning hard lemonade features Verhoeven’s spotlight on Australian research funding’s “Daversity” issue. Verhoeven’s team studied research funding finding that 79 per cent of ARC LIEF grant recipients and 82 per […]
Members of the Kinomatics Team, including Deb Verhoeven, Paul S. Moore, Amanda Coles, Bronwyn Coate, Vejune Zemaityte, Katarzyna Musial, Elizabeth Prommer, Michelle Mantsio, Sarah Taylor, Ben Eltham, Skadi Loist, and Alwyn Davidson, published a new work on the research and impact of the Kinomatics project. Disciplinary itineraries and digital methods: Examining the Kinomatics collaboration networks […]
Professor Skadi Loist, Professor Deb Verhoeven, Professor Doris Ruth Eikhof , Professor Elizabeth Prommer and Dr Amanda Coles have been awarded a 1.47 million Euro Open Research Area Grant funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; Germany), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC; UK) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC, Canada) to develop […]
