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Supporting Women Researchers

AuthorAID works to empower women researchers and scientists by supporting them with training, mentoring and networking opportunities.

Through the global AuthorAID network, we have supported over 25,000 women researchers to develop research-writing skills, to publish, to collaborate with other researchers and to access training, grants and mentoring opportunities.

  • Over 2,100 women researchers from LMICs actively participate in the AuthorAID platform, benefiting from mentoring, collaboration opportunities and networking.
  • Over 6,000 women researchers from around the world have completed an AuthorAID online course in research-writing (in English and Spanish), representing a 50% completion rate. Our online courses are designed to be ‘asynchronous’, low bandwidth and available to access at any time. Many women participants report that the flexibility of the courses allows them to access learning opportunities that they might not usually be able to schedule around other responsibilities.
  • We have attracted 263 senior women academics to act as mentors for early career researchers, highlighting the profile of women as academic role models to younger generations.

Since 2016, INASP and AuthorAID have partnered with the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) (a programme of The World Academy of Sciences, or TWAS), to:

  • Deliver training in research-writing and publishing for women researchers in Sudan, Tanzania and Malaysia as part of OWSD regional meetings and national chapter launches
  • Support early-career women scientists with dedicated facilitation and mentoring support to support writing scientific research papers

AuthorAID is a programme of INASP. INASP promotes equity by actively addressing the needs of both men and women across all our work and addressing issues of power within the research and knowledge system.