The next AWLSIG Workshop – IWD 2025: #Accelerate Action – will take place on Tuesday 4th March, 12.30PM – 1.30PM.
You are invited to join a collaboration between the Staff Development Forum and Women-Space Leadership as we celebrate IWD 2025. So please step forward in solidarity to help #AccelerateAction.
At the current rate of progress, it will take until 2158, which is roughly five generations from now, to reach full gender parity, according to data from the World Economic Forum. Indeed, this assumes the progress that has already been made continues. Yet we are witnessing a retrenchment in commitment to EDI globally.
Our session starts with what we can learn from the success stories of the winners of the Women-Space Leadership 2024. We will be hearing more about their exciting work and what lessons they have for those who want to follow them.
The second part of our session looks at the implications of the backlash against EDI with many organisations quietly dropping their commitment. Drawing on the work of Lily Zheng we explore new thinking in this area that focuses on fairness and outcomes and system-based approaches that are designed in collaborative and win-win ways.
The details for the next SDF AWLSIG workshop are as follows:
- Event Name: IWD 2025: #Accelerate Action
- Facilitator: Professor Christina Hughes
- Event Date/Time: Tuesday 4th March 12.30PM – 1.30PM
- Location: SDF Zoom
- Registrations: Only available via SDF Jiscmail
- Bookings will only be accepted from Institutional email addresses
- Zoom link and joining instructions will be sent to you in advance of the session
About the Speaker:
Professor Christina Hughes is Founder and CEO of Women-Space Leadership, a consultancy designed to support women who work in universities to flourish. She is an Honorary Professor at the University of Kent and Visiting Professor at Coventry University. She has held senior roles at the University of Kent (Deputy-Vice-Chancellor); Sheffield Hallam University (Provost) and University of Warwick (Pro-Vice-Chancellor). Her research focuses on feminist and gender issues and has covered areas such as stepfamily life, education, and career progression.
She has published over 15 books through her career and her 2020 edited collection Transdisciplinary Feminist Research, London, Routledge (with Carol Taylor and Jasmine Ulmer) was shortlisted for the American Educational Research Association prize ‘Outstanding Book of the Year 2021’.
Over her career she has won around £1.5m in external grant capture. Her upcoming publications are International Perspectives of Leadership in Higher Education (2022, with Alasdair Blair, Darrell Evans and Malcolm Tight) and the Routledge Handbook of Feminist Transdisciplinary Research (2023, with Carol Taylor, Jasmine Ulmer and Michelle Salazar Perez).
About the SDF Advancing Women’s Leadership Special Interest Group (AWLSIG)
The aim of the special interest group is to support Women in Higher Education at all levels through speakers, events and networking to share experiences and explore our leadership pathways. We want to create a community to encourage debate and reflection around the successes and challenges we encounter and empower each other to reach our full potential.
The AWLSIG is aimed at staff developers and staff within Higher Education institutions with an interest in making a difference. Its purpose is to provide SDF members with a regular mechanism to interactively share best practice for:
- challenging mindset
- strengthening skills
- enhancing opportunities for success
AWLSIG enquiries: Please contact Clare Trembleau clare.trembleau@abdn.ac.uk or Antonia Adeyemi antonia.adeyemi@admin.cam.ac.uk (AWLSIG co-chairs), for any AWLSIG enquiries, or if you would like to deliver or co-facilitate a session