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To raise awareness on diversity issues in brain sciences.

Diversity is crucial to advance science. I hope Alba can be a good strategy to achieve gender equity and diversity

Gender inequality is everywhere in the academia, from university position as professors, editorial bord of prestigious journal, prize winner and etc. If we want to increase awarness, networks like ALBA is the first step

In building my career, I have been very lucky to have been supported by great scientists and mentors. I love being in neuroscience today, and I want to help others to reach their potential and live their ambition.

Because I want to help in promoting best practices to counteract bias, and I want to contribute for providing networking to promote careers for members of underrepresented groups.

I work as the Strategic Manager for Cambridge Neuroscience, an Interdisciplinary Research Centre within the University of Cambridge connecting >800 researchers across the University, who are involved with research into the nervous system. My role involves working with academics from across the University (including underrepresented groups) to support the interdisciplinary scientific community in neuroscience. This involves workshops, seminars, facilitating introductions and external interactions, an interactive website, communications and public engagement. I would like to bring the work of Alba to Cambridge and beyond (in my role as chair of FENS Communication committee).

I feel very much in tune with the goals ALBA intend to achieve, particularly the networking aspect that could promote collaborative science, mentoring, data access, be informed of putative collaborators who share common view of science and good practice, and how it should be conducted, to avoid or decrease the impact of powerful lobbies.

In order to achieve equality among all researchers (and in society, in general), it is necessary to create structures and networks that serve as support, to identify problems and, above all, to seek solutions. Collective actions such as those that Alba intends to carry out are the best strategy.

I am interested in equity in all fields; and I'd be glad meeting people with the same interests.

towards equality and diversity in sciences

Alba should be the platform par excellence to keep the issue of women in neuroscience on the agenda.