To celebrate International Women's Day 2021, on 8 March 2021 RHUL is organising a panel discussion session around the following theme: "Challenges and enablers to becoming a Reader and Professor".
International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women and marks a call to action for accelerating equality and challenging systems of oppression. It is also an opportunity to come together and work towards undoing discriminatory thinking and practices for everyone who faces greater challenges because of their sex and/or gender identity, and consider gender from an intersectional perspective, understanding how different individual characteristics can intersect to create individual experiences of discrimination.
This year to celebrate this day, the Organisational Development and Diversity team in HR and the Royal Holloway Women’s Network (RoWaN) have organised a panel discussion session around the following theme:
Challenges and enablers to becoming a Reader and Professor.
Monday 8 March 3-4pm
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This is an opportunity to hear from a panel of academics from across the College talk about their journey to becoming a Professor and ask them questions. You will also hear about the College Enabling Women in the Promotions process programme which won the Outstanding Contribution to Leadership Development award at the prestigious Times Higher Education Awards in 2016.
Staff from all staff groups are welcomed. Although the focus is on an academic’s journey to professorship, the panel members’ stories about their experiences in navigating challenges and identifying enablers in order to achieve senior roles within academia can inspire and motivate staff attempting to achieve leadership roles within their respective professions.
Our panel members are:
- Lynette Goddard, Professor of Black Theatre and Performance (Centre for Contemporary British Theatre, Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance);
- Amina Memon, Professor of Psychology, Director of the Royal Holloway Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law;
- Jay Mistry, Professor of Environmental Geography, Co-Director of Leverhulme Wildfires Centre;
- Giuliana Pieri, Professor of Italian and Visual Arts, Head of School of Humanities.
- Laura Sjoberg, British Academy Global Professor of Political and International Relations at Royal Holloway (Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy) and Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida, Director of the Gender Institute at Royal Holloway.
The event is open to all genders. If you have any questions please email equality@rhul.ac.uk.
