Campbell Lecture Event
- Time:
- 12:30 - 16:30
- Date:
- 19 March 2014
- Venue:
- University of Southampton (EEE lecture theatre) University Rd (building 32) SO17 Southampton United Kingdom
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Event details
WiSET will host their biggest Campbell Lecture so far on Wednesday 19 March 2014. There are two inspirational speakers.
Dame Professor Athene Donald DBE FRS, Professor of Experimental Physics at University of Cambridge, Chair of the Royal Society's Education Committee, and long-time champion of women in science. Her talk will be ‘A Personal Consideration of Career Trajectories and Facilitating Women's Progression’ and will look at how both the individual and institutions can facilitate women's career progression.
In the spirit of inclusion and honouring diversity, Professor Curt Rice will also present a talk for us. He is a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and from 2009–2013, he served as the elected Vice Rector for Research and Development (prorektor for forskning og utvikling) at the University of Tromsø. Curt is a strong proponent of gender balance in higher education and has titled his talk ‘Confessions of a male sexist’.
Programme:
12.30 - 1.15 Buffet lunch (Foyer of Building 85 lecture theatre)
1.15 Welcome to the Campbell Lecture - Chair of WiSET, Dr Vesna Perisic and Prof Iain Cameron, Athena SWAN Chair, Dean Faculty of Medicine
1.30 - 2.10 Professor Curt Rice (Cathy Pope to introduce)
2.10 - 2.30 Work Futures Research Centre thanks to Curt Rice - Catherine Pope or one of the other directors 2.30 - 2.45 Tea
2.45 - 3.25 Professor Dame Athene Donald (Introduced by - Iain Cameron)
3.45 - 4.05 Discussion (chaired by Peter Smith)
4.05 - 4.15 Presentation to our speakers,
4.15 - 4.30 Vote of thanks by Prof Peter Smith, Head of Institute for Life Sciences
4.30 Close
Speaker information
Professor Dame Athene Donald DBE FRS,University of Cambridge, Chair of the Royal Society's Education Committee,A Personal Consideration of Career Trajectories and Facilitating Women's Progression Careers certainly need not go in straight lines or follow a pre-determined path, and this is certainly the case of my own. I think it is important to recognise that chance as well as hard work and determination play their part and women need to be ready to seize opportunities that come their way and overcome their fears. I will consider how both the individual and institutions can facilitate women's career progression.
Professor Curt Rice,Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study,Confessions of a male sexist Professor Rice will argue that the core challenge to improving gender balance is finding ways to overcome implicit bias. The cultures in which we live lead us as individuals to have different associations for men and women and their roles in the workplace. These implicit biases play themselves out in hiring processes, promotion, salary assignment, grant reviews, even in citation practices. Rice will highlight some of the most exciting research on this topic and then will discuss a specific project designed to counter these effects that he led while he was Pro Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Tromsø. Tromsø has radically changed its gender balance profile, whereby they progressed over 10 years from being the worst university in Norway with only 9% women among full professors, to being the best in Norway, with over 30% women as full professors.