Data Set Title: “PLOTINA: WP2: Gender Assessment, Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) design and lessons learnt: Task 2.5: Qualitative Gender Audit (GA) Data: University of Bologna (IT)”
Data Set Creators: Gallina Toschi, Tullia (University of Bologna)
Data Set Contributors: Balzano, Angela; Crivellaro, Francesca (University of Bologna)
Data Set Licence: this data set is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 
Publication Year: 2017
Project Info: PLOTINA (Promoting Gender Balance and Inclusion in Research, Innovation and Training), funded by European Union, Horizon 2020 Programme. Grant Agreement num. 666008; www.plotina.eu.
Data set Contents: the dataset includes an overview of the Qualitative Gender Audit grounded on aggregated quantitative data on participants (targets, institutional role and position, sex, gender). The Gender Audit was the first audit regarding gender equality conducted in the University of Bologna, thanks to the PLOTINA Project. 
The data set consists of:
•	a compressed folder named “Dataset_PLOTINA_WP2_T2_5_QualitativeGAoverview.zip” containing 7 tabular files saved in .cvs format with “,” or “;” separator:
“PLOTINA_UNIBO_dataset_QualiGA_PARTICIPANTS PER GENDER.csv”
“PLOTINA_UNIBO_dataset_QualiGA_B&C STAFF AND TECH ADM STAFF PER AREA.csv”
“PLOTINA_UNIBO_dataset_QualiGA_B&C STAFF AND TECH ADMIN STAFF PER GENDER.csv”
“PLOTINA_UNIBO_dataset_QualiGA_GOVERNANCE SUBTARGETS.csv”
“PLOTINA_UNIBO_dataset_QualiGA_GRADE D STAFF PER AREA.csv”
“PLOTINA_UNIBO_dataset_QualiGA_GRADE D STAFF PER GENDER.csv”
“PLOTINA_UNIBO_dataset_QualiGA_TARGET GROUPS.csv”
•	a README file named “README_PLOTINA_WP2_T2_5_QualitativeGAoverview.rtf”
Data set Documentation
Overview of the participants data from the interviews conducted in Italy by the University of Bologna (UNIBO) team for the Qualitative Gender Audit of the PLOTINA Project. The data are numerical and derived, processed through aggregation.
Participants
A total of 73 participants were selected and interviewed choosing individuals who belonged to one of these groups:
1.	Governance members, key actors and decision makers; this target group includes: Rector and Vice-rectors; representative of the Governing Bodies; heads of Departments; deans of Schools and Campus coordinators; administrative Divisions Directors and Line Managers;
2.	Grade B and C staff; this target group includes advanced-stage researchers and professors and technical and administrative working at the Department level. 
3. Grade D (Early-stage Researchers staff); this target group includes PhD students, Fellow researchers and Specialty Registrars
To recruit participants the PLOTINA UNIBO Team has sent an invitation to key actors and to its Departmental Delegates with the request to disseminate it through the above mentioned targets. Participants were recruited on the basis of their voluntary consent to be interviewed. 
Methodology
The qualitative Gender Audit was carried out following qualitative research methods, namely interviews (both individual and small group interviews) and focus groups. The main purpose was reconstructing ‒ by a bottom-up perspective ‒ interviewees’ representations on several topics/issues related to gender equality within the RPO. 
Participants agreed to collaborate to the gender audit under the condition of anonymity and privacy protection; the publication of interviews/focus group transcripts could jeopardize this very premise, for this reason the dataset only regards an overview of aggregated data on the Qualitative Gender Audit participants and not the interview transcripts.