Different voices: Reflections on love, leadership, power and campaigning for change Event

Abstract: From the perspective of the last few years of leading a women’s criminal justice charity, Kate will share some reflections on leadership, campaigning for change, the power of academic research (especially feminist analysis) and how our use of relational language and theories can help create the world we want to see. Kate will touch on various feminist analysis with a particular focus on Carol Gilligan’s ‘In a Different Voice’. This will be an interactive session with some reflections from Kate and then a discussion about how ‘different voices’ and the ethical frameworks of care and justice can help make change happen across the ‘different worlds’ of academia, charities and the civil service.

Speaker Bio: Dr Kate Paradine is currently a Visiting Fellow at Southampton University’s Stefan Cross Centre for Women, Equality and the Law. Having completed her undergraduate degree and Phd at Southampton, and led the Law Faculty’s Law & Discrimination Course in the late 1990s, Kate went on the spend a decade in the civil service, working on various areas of police training, policy and strategy and leading on the project to transfer services from the National Policing Improvement Agency to the College of Policing. From 2015 to 2022 Kate was CEO of Women in Prison - the national campaigning and service providing charity that aims to end the harm of prison, through modelling alternative community responses to offending, especially the value of women’s centres.