平成27年度文部科学省科学技術人材育成費補助事業「ダイバーシティ研究環境実現イニシアティブ（連携型）」
The DD Unit Promotional Office supports the creation of research environments that allow female researchers to juggle their research work with various life events (research environments with "diversity"). To this aim, we offer the following support.
Purpose: To give female researchers the power to obtain research grants for themselves, manage joint research projects, and work as principal investigators (PI). The program provided grants to 11 female researchers in FY2017, 10 in FY2016, and 18 in FY2015.
Content: Support for joint research projects for researchers in senior positions, mid-level positions and lower positions (young researchers). Researchers are selected after application screening and interviews, and awarded grants to support their joint research project.
Target: Female researchers working at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Juntendo University and Nippi Research Institute of Biomatrix.
We host a series of lectures with diverse themes, including "Leadership," "Management" and "Communication." In FY2017 the following five seminars were held.
Lecturer: Shunji Hattori (Director of Nippi Research Institute of Biomatrix)
Lecturer: Sadami Habashita (Director of the Department of Nursing, Juntendo Hospital)
Tsumako Kawasaki (Assistant Hospital Director and Director of the Department of Nursing, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Medical Hospital)
Lecturer: Yoko Ishikura (Professor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University / External Director, Shiseido Company)
Lecturer: Masami Kanai (Professor, Department of Experimental Animal Model for Human Disease, Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
Lecturer: Yoshikuni Edagawa (Professor, Center for Research Strategy, Waseda University)
We conduct awareness surveys targeting researchers within and outside the collaborative group, regarding factors that promote/inhibit female researchers from taking senior researcher positions.
We developed and operate a unique Family Support System in collaboration with NPOs and the community, aiming to offer child care support for female researchers. The system was opened to male researchers in FY2017.
Purpose: To prepare an environment in which researchers in the collaborative group can work without worry and balance child care and research work, with the cooperation of people in the community who wish to help with child care.
Content: Connecting researchers in the collaborative group who need help (taking and picking up children at daycare facilities, short-term daycare stays, sick child care services, over-night child care, etc.) with people in the community who wish to help with child care.
Purpose: To provide researchers facing difficulties in maintaining work and research due to a life event (childbirth, childrearing, care giving, etc.) with a research assistant to help with research work, thus support career continuation and development.
Content: We provided 16 female researchers with research assistants in FY2017, and 17 in FY2016. We also provide support for research continuation in other ways, such as consultations with mentors and the "Research Assistant Bank" to help match researchers with research assistants.
We assign mentors and offer joint-research support to female researchers who have research findings with potential for commercialization, to promote industry-academia collaboration.
Purpose: To discover, connect and support (via grants, etc.) research findings that can potentially be applied to industry-academia collaboration, thus promote commercial application of research findings from a woman's point of view. The program offered support to four female researchers in FY2017, five in FY2016, and three in FY2015.
Content: Support for joint research projects led by female researchers inthe collaborative group.
Mentors give female researchers multifaceted advice regarding concerns and problems in their research work.
We utilize team-based planning initiatives to help young researchers (including graduate students) design and build a career path suited to their lives in a problem-solving approach.
Contact: Diversity Diamond Unit (DD Unit) Promotional Office
Inside the Tokyo Medical and Dental University
1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN 113-8510
Tel 03-5803-4921 / Fax 03-5803-0246 / email ddunit.ddu@tmd.ac.jp
