Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science at Stanford University, and Founding Director of Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment. Schiebinger received her PhD from Harvard University and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.
SHC Project
Global Review of Sex, Gender, and Intersectional Analysis in Research Policies of Major Public Funding Agencies
For decades, Dr. Schiebinger's work has explored how humanistic methods and approaches can transform how we do science. Now Schiebinger seeks to use these approaches to help achieve greater diversity, equity, and inclusion in current scientific research and outcomes. As a next step, she proposes a “Global Review of Sex, Gender, and Diversity Analysis in Research Policies of Major Public Funding Agencies” across six continents in collaboration with colleagues from the Wellcome Trust, London, and a 14-person international advisory board that includes scholars from the Netherlands, South Africa, Brazil, and India. Importantly, sex, gender, and intersectional analysis developed historically in the humanities and social sciences. Schiebinger's is translational—translating critical, humanistic methods of sociocultural analysis into techniques palatable to colleagues in the natural sciences.