Springboard grants
The aim of the Tremplin grant is to increase the number of women eligible to apply for professorships. It enables female researchers at the University of Lausanne who wish to pursue an academic career to free up time to build up their scientific portfolio (research, publications, stays abroad, etc.).
The subsidy enables beneficiaries to be replaced - in particular to take on teaching, supervisory and administrative tasks - or to be seconded in technical research tasks, so that they can devote themselves primarily to their research.
The subsidy is intended to enable beneficiaries to carry out their own research.
- Maximum amount : CHF 25'000.
- Maximum period covered by the grant : 12 months
- Possibility of benefiting from mentoring
Target audience
Women in non-stabilized postdoctoral positions pursuing an academic career, including first assistant professors, assistant masters and assistant professors..
- By way of exception, women with a doctorate holding other types of academic posts and with a proven desire for an academic career;e peuvent béficier du subside, autant que leur demande r&epondue;au but de la mesure en tant qu’lérateur de carrière et d&ès accès au professat.
Procedure for selecting the winners
The applications submitted are assessed by the professorial members of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, who rank them according to the following criteria:
- The quality of the application (CV and project planned for the grant period) ;
- Motivation for an academic career and the impact of the research developed during the grant period on the subsequent career path;
- The feasibility and nature of the discharge or technical support in relation to a coherent budget, as well as the support of the unit to which the applicant is attached. For CHUV researchers, a significant financial commitment from the employing institution is required.
On this basis, the Executive Committee awards the grants within the limits of the annual amount available. For the 2024 edition, the amount for the Tremplin grants allocated by the Management is 100,000 Swiss francs.
Application file for the Springboard 2024 grant
Bid date:6 September 2024
The application must be sent by electronic mail to egalite@unil.ch.
The application file must include the following documents:
- A covering letter setting out the applicant’s background, ambitions and future prospects
- A CV with list of publications
- The ad hoc form provided by the Equality Office completed, dated, signed; (Link)
- A letter of recommendation
- Any other relevant documents
Further information
Winners
Ghaliya Djelloul
Institute of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
My research focuses on the social marginalisation of women from Muslim minorities in Europe. It aims to understand the formation of their subjectivity and their modes of agentivism and resistance, from a feminist and colonial perspective.
Isis Giraldo
Section of English, Faculty of Arts
Interdisciplinary in nature, my work falls within the field of cultural and médiatic studies, particularly in critical approaches that refocus power and justice. My research at UNIL focuses in particular on feminist theory, colonial criticism, the history of ideas and studies of the right.
Camille Jaccard
Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
My research focuses on the study of psychological knowledge and practices in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in order to examine our history and contemporary issues relating to mental health.
Alba Motes Rodrigo
Department of Biology and Evolution, Faculty of Biology and Medicine
As part of my research, I am studying the factors that influence social and behavioural diversity in animals living in groups, as well as the consequences of this diversity on individual and collective abilities.
Laia Simo Riudalbas
Centre intégratif de génomique, Faculté de biologie et médecine
How do colorectal cancer cells become metastatic?
Laura Vowels
Institute of Psychology,Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
My research focuses on the development of interventions using artificial intelligence to improve the well-being of couple relationships.
Anatolia Batruch
Laboratory of Social Psychology (UNILAPS), Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques
My research interests include: social class psychology, intergroup relations and social class inequalities at school.
Rachel Harrison
Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE), Faculty of Biology and Medicine
My research focuses on cultural evolution and the cognitive mechanisms that underpin it, both in humans and in other primates. Generally speaking, I am interested in the origin and content of learning.
Martina Legris
Centre intégratif de génomique (CIG), Faculté de biologie et médecine
How do plants optimise light capture?
Marie Emilie Walz
Section of English (ANGL), Faculty of Arts
My research compares texts from different historical periods and aims, in particular, to establish a critical and creative dialogue between Renaissance works and their contemporary reworkings and adaptations.
Isabelle Zinn
Institute of Social Sciences (ISS), Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
My research, at the intersection of the sociology of work, professional groups and gender, aims to contribute to a better understanding of inequalities and how these shape professional experiences and the organisation of work.
Contact
Pierre Simon-Vermot
Equality Office