Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

DOI： 10.24646/jnlsts.19.0_79

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Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：{SAGE} Publications  

Women are a minority in science, technology, engineering and mathematics academic careers. In particular, few women in Japan choose to study physics and mathematics. In this study, we investigated the factors contributing to the masculine image of physics and mathematics based on the framework of our expanded model. We conducted online questionnaire surveys in Japan and England, and found that physics and mathematics occupations, and mathematical stereotypes were both related to a masculine image. Only in Japan were social factors, such as a person’s attitude to intellectual women, related to viewing mathematics as ‘masculine’. However, the experience of being told or having heard that the choice of a particular course of studies would make someone less attractive to the opposite sex was evident only in England. This finding suggests that social factors affect the masculine image of physics and mathematics, and that this could vary depending on the country.

DOI： 10.1177/09636625211002375

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Other Link： http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/09636625211002375

Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Sissa Medialab Srl  

U.S. and other publics perceive STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields as masculine and scientist as a male occupation, but Japanese public perception remains unstudied. Using an online survey, we identified keywords associated with physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, information science, biology, and mathematics. A second online survey showed that the Japanese public perceived both keywords and fields as masculine. This trend was stronger in individuals with less egalitarian attitudes towards gender roles. We suggest that attitude towards gender roles contributes to the masculine image of science in Japan.

DOI： 10.22323/2.19060202

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Sissa Medialab  

<jats:p>Many studies have examined the impression that the general public has of science and how this can prevent girls from choosing science fields. Using an online questionnaire, we investigated whether the public perception of several academic fields was gender-biased in Japan. First, we found the gender-bias gap in public perceptions was largest in nursing and mechanical engineering. Second, people who have a low level of egalitarian attitudes toward gender roles perceived that nursing was suitable for women. Third, people who have a low level of egalitarian attitudes perceived that many STEM fields are suitable for men. This suggests that gender-biased perceptions toward academic fields can still be found in Japan.</jats:p>

DOI： 10.22323/2.19010208

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Informa {UK} Limited  

Women are still in the minority in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields in many countries, including Japan. Parental gender role attitudes are a potential influence on whether high school girls choose STEM fields and which fields they choose. However, this has not yet been closely examined in the Japanese context. We used an online questionnaire to investigate whether parental agreement regarding girls? choice of STEM fields was affected by stereotypical parental gender role attitudes. We found that Japanese parents with egalitarian gender role attitudes generally agreed with girls? freedom to choose their field of study (not just limited to STEM fields). Parents that agreed thought that girls could find employment across all fields. However, parents that disagreed expressed a variety of reasons, including negative perceptions of STEM fields such as lack of employment opportunities (biology, mathematics, physics and information science) and unsuitability for women (engineering). These results suggest that improving such field-specific negative perceptions may contribute to increase parental support for girls? choice of STEM fields.

DOI： 10.1080/09500693.2019.1671635

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

DOI： 10.14943/86614

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Sissa Medialab Srl  

“Science crowdfunding” is a research funding system in which members of the public make small financial contributions towards a research project via the Internet. We compared the more common research process involving public research funding with science crowdfunding. In the former, academic-peer communities review the research carried out whereas the Crowd Community, an aggregation of backers, carries out this function in the latter. In this paper, we propose that science crowdfunding can be successfully used to generate “crowd-supported science” by means of this Crowd Community.

DOI： 10.22323/2.17030206

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Language：Japanese   Publisher：Japan Science and Technology Agency  

DOI： 10.1241/johokanri.60.666

CiNii Books

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：北海道大学高等教育推進機構 高等教育研究部 科学技術コミュニケーション教育研究部門（CoSTEP）  

There is increasing pressure on Japanese universities and research institutions to actively promote their research outcomes to global audiences. One factor driving this phenomenon is increasing global competition among states and organizations for highly-qualified individuals. The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) has set itself the task of becoming a "world-leading center of knowledge" and there is an awareness within the university of the need to reach a wider audience both domestically and globally to achieve this objective. The university's Public Relations Office established "UTokyo Research" in 2010 to promote the university's research domestically and internationally and to nurture personnel able to support the dissemination of research outcomes. This paper introduces the origin and development of UTokyo Research and the efforts of the university's Public Relations Office to promote research outcomes in English to a global audience. ; 本稿は著者最終稿。最終版は関連URI http://hdl.handle.net/2115/56438 にて公開。

CiNii Books

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Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War: Creativity Behind Barbed Wire  

DOI： 10.4324/9780203120620

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Kellogg College, Oxford  

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Language：English   Presentation type：Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

Venue：Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing, China  

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