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UCL Gender Equality Event
18 March 2008

Kennedy Theatre, Institute of Child Health (ICH)
30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH.

Programme
Open to UCL staff and students with some invited external participants.
Capacity 285
3 sessions and lunch. No workshops.
Instructions on how to get to the ICH are available here.

PDF version of the programme availble here
     
10.30 – 12.15   1st Session; Setting the scene.
  1st Session; Setting the scene. Also specific focus on Science, Engineering and Technology, (UCL’s work on SET and gender equality) and recent research into women in clinical academia and women in academic medicine.

Chair: Professor Janette Atkinson, UCL Pro-Provost (North America), UCL Coordinator for Athena SWAN (women in SET), Director: Visual Development Unit, Head: Developmental Sciences Department, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences.

Confirmed speakers:

Professor Janette Atkinson

Professor Peter Main, Director of Education and Science, Institute of Physics

Caroline Fox, Programme Manager of the former Athena Project at The Royal Society and Sarah Dickinson, Science Policy and Diversity Specialist, Royal Society of Chemistry

Professor Debbie Sharp, Professor of Primary Health Care, University of Bristol, Chair of Women in Clinical Academia
   
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch with the Provost
1.30 – 3.30 2nd Session: Diverse women and public figures, representing different professions, talk about their careers - what made a difference.
    Chair: Professor Christine Hawley, UCL Dean of the Faculty of the Built Environment, Chair of UCL’s Equal Opportunities Committee

Confirmed speakers:

  • Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty, the cross party, non-party membership organisation for fundamental rights and freedoms in England and Wales.

  • Professor Francesca Klug, OBE, Professorial Research Fellow at LSE's Centre for the Study of Human Rights and one of the Commissioners of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

  • Professor Stephen Whittle, OBE, founder of Press for Change, the political lobbying and educational organisation, which campaigns to achieve equal civil rights and liberties for all transgender people in the UK. Professor of Equalities Law, Manchester Metropolitan University.

  • Dr Maggie Aderin, Managing Director Science Innovation Ltd
    Space Scientist at Astrium Ltd, the European Space Company

  • Dame Hazel Genn, QC, Professor of Socio Legal Studies and Honorary Fellow UCL Laws.
     
3.45 - 5.15   3rd session: The way forward and facilitated discussion between the panel and audience
  Chair: Femi Otitojou, Director of Challenge Training Agency, UK leaders in equality & diversity training and consultancy

Confirmed speakers:
  • Dr. Anita Holdcroft, Emeritus Reader in Anaesthesia, Imperial College London, and lead Women in Academic Medicine Project.

  • Ruqayyah Collector, NUS Black Student Officer

  • Julie Ashdown, Senior Policy Adviser and Athena SWAN Charter
    Co ordinator, Equality Challenge Unit.

  • Kat Banyard, Campaigns Officer, Sexism and the City, The Fawcett Society, the UK’s leading campaign organisation for equality between women and men.
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  18 March 2008 at 9.30 am - 1.30 pm *
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