We are pleased to announce the upcoming workshop "SheCodesPsy: Reprogramming stereotypes! Empowering female psychology students with coding skills," funded by the Arqus Teaching Innovation Fund and the María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence of the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center. The workshop will take place from the 13th to the 15th of May 2026 in Granada, Spain.
This initiative, a collaboration between the University of Granada (Spain) and the University of Padua (Italy), is designed to bridge the gap between psychology and technology. As future psychologists, you will enter a job market that increasingly relies on big data and artificial intelligence, especially within the research path. Coding expertise has hence become an essential and highly valued competency. Critically, female students are often underrepresented in technological spaces, facing greater barriers to accessing computational skills. This three-day in-person course aims to provide a supportive, inclusive environment to acquire these basic programming skills while explicitly challenging gender-based stereotypes in STEM.
Through this workshop, you will:
- Learn the fundamentals of Python programming
- Work in small groups on practical projects related to research in psychology, such as data collection and analysis
- Reflect on the history of women and gender-diverse figures in tech and how to address the gender gap in computational skills.
We invite students from Universities across the Arqus Alliance to apply for this unique learning opportunity. We welcome applications from 2nd and 3rd-year Psychology or Cognitive Neuroscience bachelor’s degree students who identify as female or gender-diverse and have little or no prior coding experience.
The workshop inscription is totally FREE and the selected students will also receive fully subsidized accommodation in Granada.
Application deadline: March 16, 2026 at 23:59 CET.
For more information and to submit your application, please visit our website here: https://shecodespsy.github.io/