The Kalinga Day Care Center (KDCC) is looking for a daycare teacher.

Qualifications

• Has a degree or training background in Early Childhood Development
• An experience in teaching on early childhood set-up for 1-5 years old is an advantage
• Advocate of gender fairness, nationalism, and love for the environment
• Loves children

Interested applicants may submit their resume and letter of application to [email protected] on or before 15 July 2022.

Email Subject: KDCC Job Opening – Name of Applicant

Address the letter of application to:
Dr. Nathalie Lourdes Africa-Verceles
Director
UP Center for Women’s and Gender Studies
University of the Philippines
Diliman, Quezon City

For further inquiries, you may call 09452096949 or email us at [email protected].

The University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS) is hosting a panel discussion on The State of LGBTQIA+ Health in the Philippines on 24 June 2022 (Friday), 2:00-3:30 PM via Zoom.

Featuring voices from members of the community, policymaking circles, community-based organizations, and the academe, this webinar will be an avenue to discuss pressing health issues for the Filipino LGBTQIA+ community and ways for different sectors to collaborate.

This webinar is free and open to the public.

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/lgbthealthph.

Tumitindig, Tumitindi: Living and Speaking through LGBTQ+ Activism in Urban Philippines

The University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS) invites everyone to Tumitindig, Tumitindi: Living and Speaking through LGBTQ+ Activism in Urban Philippines on 20 June 2022 (Monday), 2:00-3:30 PM (Manila Time) via Zoom. This event is the seventh session of the “Site of Convergence: Weaving Tapestries of Knowledge” lecture series.

Register via https://tinyurl.com/LGBTActivismPH.

Our speaker is Victoria G. Amos. She is an Alice Brown Scholar and PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, currently being sponsored by the Institute of Philippine Culture at Ateneo de Manila University as a Visiting Research Associate. She received an Integrated Master’s degree from the University of Edinburgh in 2019.

In the webinar, she will talk about two research projects. She will talk about her fieldwork conducted with UP Babaylan in 2018, which culminated in her dissertation entitled “Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen: Navigating Validity and Authenticity amongst LGBTQ+ Youth in Urban Philippines.” She will also talk about her ongoing research, which seeks to examine the specific discourses and lived experiences of queer Filipinos in relation to the concepts of “coming out,” “being out,” and “LGBTQ+ Pride,” engaging with a broader range of demographics and methodologies in the process of data gathering/dissemination.

For registrants, links will be sent on the day before the event or earlier. Kindly wait for our email. Please make sure to create a Zoom account, and log in your Zoom account before you click on the webinar link. Individuals who do not have a Zoom account and are not logged in will not be able to enter the Zoom webinar. If you have registered but did not get the link, send us your email via a private message on Facebook or email us at [email protected].

[NOTE: The deadline for submission of research proposals for the 2022 UPCWGS Research Grant is extended until 1 May 2022.]

The University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS) is now accepting proposals for its 2022 UPCWGS Research Grant. The grant seeks to fund cutting-edge research on women and gender in the Philippines and the ASEAN region. Due to the ongoing restrictions and risks posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we will prioritize research that will use digital research methods or hybrid methods for data gathering.

The UPCWGS will award funding of up to PhP110,000 to seven (7) research projects on women and gender in the Philippines and the ASEAN region. Project duration should be within a six-month period with the start date on 1 July 2022. One of the project proponents should be currently affiliated with the University of the Philippines.

Proposals should follow the format indicated in the PROJECT PROPOSAL TEMPLATE (https://tinyurl.com/UPCWGSprojeprop) and use this CHECKLIST (https://tinyurl.com/UPCWGSchecklist) for formulating their budget. Submissions should also include a proof of application for an ethics clearance if research poses more than minimal risk* to human participants (in health and development research).

Please email your proposals to [email protected], with “2022 UPCWGS RESEARCH GRANT” in the subject line, by 1 May 2022.

*A risk is minimal when the probability and magnitude of harm or discomfort anticipated in the proposed research are not greater, in and of themselves, than those ordinarily encountered in daily life or during the performance of routine physical or psychological examinations or tests (National Ethical Guidelines for Health Research 2011).

The University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS) invites everyone to attend Looking Back and Moving Forward: What Have We Done, What We Can Do, a roundtable discussion on women in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, on 24 March 2022 (Thursday), 1:30-3:30 PM via Zoom. This will also be live streamed at the UPCWGS Facebook page.

Speakers and reactors include Ms. Jocelyn Garcia and Dr. Maureen Mata (Employment of Women with Disability), Dr. Maria Helen Dayo and Dr. Zenaida Reyes (Women and Education), and Ms. Daryl Leyesa and Dr. Chester Arcilla (Women in the Informal Economy).

Registration is free and can be accessed through the link: https://bit.ly/UPCWGS_RTD2022.

Certificate of Participation will be provided.

The University of the Philippines Center for Women’s Studies Foundation, Inc. (UPCWSFI), in partnership with the UP Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS), will be organizing a Gender Sensitivity Training for Social Media Influencers to be held on 30 (Wednesday) and 31 (Thursday) March 2022, 10:00-11:30 AM via Zoom.

Register for FREE through the link: https://forms.gle/XJjQABok9imspYi39.

To cap off its Women’s Month celebration, the University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS) brings you Mithi: Publications Launch on 29 March 2022 (Tuesday), 1:00-3:00 PM via Zoom. This will also be live streamed at the UPCWGS Facebook page.

Three publications of the UPCWGS will be launched, namely, “Engendering Inclusive and Transformative Early Childhood Care and Development,” “Review of Women’s Studies Volume XXXI, Number 2,” and “OSAEC (Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children) Awareness Primer for Teachers and School Administrators and Staff.”

Registration is free and can be accessed through the link: https://bit.ly/MITHI2022.

Certificate of Participation will be provided upon accomplishment of the event’s feedback form which will be shared during the program.

[NOTE: The deadline for submission of research proposals for the 2022 UPCWGS Research Grant is extended until 1 May 2022.]

The University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS) is now accepting proposals for its 2022 UPCWGS Research Grant. The grant seeks to fund cutting-edge research on women and gender in the Philippines and the ASEAN region. Due to the ongoing restrictions and risks posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we will prioritize research that will use digital research methods or hybrid methods for data gathering.

The UPCWGS will award funding of up to PhP110,000 to seven (7) research projects on women and gender in the Philippines and the ASEAN region. Project duration should be within a six-month period with the start date on 1 July 2022. One of the project proponents should be currently affiliated with the University of the Philippines.

Proposals should follow the format indicated in the PROJECT PROPOSAL TEMPLATE (https://tinyurl.com/UPCWGSprojeprop) and use this CHECKLIST (https://tinyurl.com/UPCWGSchecklist) for formulating their budget. Submissions should also include a proof of application for an ethics clearance if research poses more than minimal risk* to human participants (in health and development research).

Please email your proposals to [email protected], with “2022 UPCWGS RESEARCH GRANT” in the subject line, by 15 April 2022.

*A risk is minimal when the probability and magnitude of harm or discomfort anticipated in the proposed research are not greater, in and of themselves, than those ordinarily encountered in daily life or during the performance of routine physical or psychological examinations or tests (National Ethical Guidelines for Health Research 2011).