The GEAM tool is an online survey framework to collect reliable data on inclusive gender equality in organisations.
The GEAM has been used by more than +50 universities and research centres across Europe, generating +10k responses. It offers a framework to collect high quality comparable data on inclusive gender equality that facilitate dialogue and learning within and across organisations.
Save time
No need to reinvent the wheel! The GEAM includes tested questionnaire items based on best practice for equality data collection. All ready to use as online questionnaire!
+15 Languages
The GEAM has been translated into different languages including Polish, Spanish, Germany, French, Czech, Turkish, Portuguese, Italian, Greek among others.
Fully customisable
The online questionnaire is a modular framework, easily customisable. It uses the LimeSurvey platform, a well-established, professional online survey environment.
Two Dedicated Versions
For Employees
A dedicate questionnaire to collect data on working conditions, organisational climate, gender-based violence, microaggressions of employees.
Browse online:
https://surveys.geamtool.eu/index.php/530000?lang=en
For Students
A dedicated questionnaire for students capturing educational experience, study situation, campus and culture climate as well as experiences of discrimination and gender-based violence.
Browse online:
https://surveys.geamtool.eu/index.php/100100?lang=en
Extensive documentation
GEAM Manual
Detailed documentation regarding the planning, design and setup of a GEAM questionnaire in your organisation, based upon the principles of equality data collection. Covers all important steps to integrate the GEAM as one key element of an inclusive gender equality audit.
Consult online: https://geamtool.eu/manual
GEAM Analysis
In-depth guidance on the analysis of data collected with the GEAM survey, including the generation of descriptive statistics as well as more advanced analysis across organisations and different points in time. Complete with R source code to easily run similar analysis on your data.
Consult online: https://geamtool.eu/analysis
Free and Open Source
Provided at no cost
In the context of the INSPIRE project, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya offers a free survey service. You can run your GEAM at no additional cost using our LimeSurvey installation. The service includes the setup of a GEAM questionnaire for employees or students for up-to six month.
Open source & open standards
The GEAM uses the LimeSurvey platform, an open source survey application.
All documentation (manual and handbook) as well as reporting templates are written in Quarto / R and available for collaboration via Github.
Data ownership
You are responsible for the data collected in your organisation. Once a survey has been activated, data can be exported in standard formats such as CSV, SPSS or Excel directly from the LimeSurvey platform.
The GEAM survey is also available as LimeSurvey Archive file to be installed on any other LimeSurvey platform.
Contact & Credits
Development & Maintenance
The initial version of the GEAM tool has been developed in the framework of the H2020 ACT Project.
The third and revised version of the GEAM has been developed in the framework of the INSPIRE Centre of Excellence for inclusive gender equality in R&I, funded by Horizon Europe.
Contributing
All types of contributions are welcome, e.g. in translations of questionnaire items, or contributions to the manual, analysis handbook, or reporting template.
Contact
As part of the INSPIRE project, the GEAM is currently hosted at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain.
For further information or for requesting accounts, please contact: jmuller@uoc.edu
