#diversityau by Podcast
Last Updated: June 24, 2026
The #DiversityAU podcast series explores key focus areas in Aarhus University’s work to promote diversity and gender equality. The second season is out now and focuses on AU’s action plan for gender equality 2020-2022. Zooming in on the four focus areas of the action plan - recruitment, career development, leadership and workplace culture - Danish journalist Carsten Ortmann interviews four experts on each of these areas. The second season aims to inspire and provide practical advice on how to achieve the ambitious goals set out in the action plan.
In the podcast you can meet Professor Yvonne Benchop (Radboud University), Assistant Professor Mathias Wullum Nielsen (University of Copenhagen), postdoc Ea Høg Utoft (Aarhus University) and Claartje Vinkenburg (independent expert consultant affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Find the podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify – or stream it from this website (see below).
In the podcast you can meet Professor Yvonne Benchop (Radboud University), Assistant Professor Mathias Wullum Nielsen (University of Copenhagen), postdoc Ea Høg Utoft (Aarhus University) and Claartje Vinkenburg (independent expert consultant affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Find the podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify – or stream it from this website (see below).
Claartje Vinkenburg: “One of the things I always recommend universities is to up their game in terms of dual career policies”
In this episode of the #DiversityAU podcast, former academic and current consultant Claartje Vinkenburg conveys the most recent research on career development in the context of promoting gender equality. Vinkenburg is an independent expert consultant on diversity and academic career and is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Ea Høgh Utoft: “Culture is part of the explanation for why we see imbalance at leadership level ..."
In this episode of the #DiversityAU podcast, postdoc Ea Høg Utoft from Aarhus University explains why a focus on workplace culture is important when an organisation like AU seeks to address gender equality. Høg Utoft is a researcher at the Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy at AU.
Mathias Wullum Nielsen: “Recruitment can be used as a key focus area, when it comes to questions of gender imbalance in science”
In this episode of the #DiversityAU podcast, Associate Professor Mathias Wullum Nielsen, stresses the importance of focusing on recruitment and selection, when promoting gender balance in academia. Wullum Nielsen is a researcher at the Department of Sociology at University of Copenhagen.
Yvonne Benschop: “Leaders need to lead by example to create gender equality”
In this episode of the #DiversityAU podcast, Professor Yvonne Benchop underlines the importance of leadership, when it comes to creating tangible changes in organisations in relation to gender equality. Benchop is a professor of strategic human resource management at Radboud University.
Liv Hornekær: ”For mange passede jeg ikke ind i billedet af, hvordan en professor i fysik ser ud”
I dette femte afsnit kan du møde Liv Hornekær, der i 2017, som den første kvinde nogensinde, blev udnævnt til professor i fysik på Aarhus Universitet. I 2016 modtog hun desuden Eliteforsk-prisen.
Julia Nafziger: ”Man skal have vilje, have en plan og kende sine styrker og svagheder”
I andet afsnit af #DiversityAU-podcast kan du møde Julia Nafziger, som er professor på Institut for Økonomi. Nafziger er født i Tyskland og har igennem sin akademiske karriere haft ophold på universiteter i USA, Storbritannien, Frankrig og Belgien, inden hun for 12 år siden kom til Aarhus Universitet.
Nina Lock: ”Man bliver nødt til at stole på egne evner”
I fjerde afsnit af #DiversityAU-podcast fortæller lektor Nina Lock om sin forskningskarriere, der startede på kemi, og hvordan hun via flere udlandsophold nu er landet på Institut for Ingeniørvidenskab på Aarhus Universitet.
Cecilia Ramlau-Hansen: ”Jeg kan ikke forestille mig et andet sted end her ved universitetet, hvor jeg vil passe bedre ind”
I tredje afsnit af #DiversityAU-podcast fortæller Cecilia Ramlau-Hansen om sin forskerkarriere og om sin rejse fra bioanalytiker til professor på Aarhus Universitet.
Anja Bechmann: ”Jeg er drevet af nysgerrigheden – og af at løse de store problemer i vores samfund”
I første afsnit af #DiversityAU-podcast kan du møde Anja Bechmann. Hun er professor i medievidenskab på Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur og direktør for Center for Digital Social Research, DATALAB.
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