Please read: Due to a technical issue, some submissions made after the 18th of February were not recorded. If you registered after this date and have not received a confirmation email then please contact the equality2015 team for information regarding your place: equality2015@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you still wish to register then please email to see if there are any spaces available.
Gender Equality in Science – Pathways to Success
Tuesday 10 March 2015
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBSU)
15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 7EF
10.30am – 4pm
The meeting will include a series of talks and a panel discussion, as well as free lunch and tea with opportunities for networking.
The meeting is aimed for both men and women researchers.
It aims to raise awareness to gender equality issues and to support successful career paths for early-career researchers of both genders.
The meeting is open to everyone and is free of charge. However, registration is required as spaces are limited.
To register, please send an email to equality2015@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
The meeting is relevant to any of you who are concerned about gender equality issues, want to know more about how our workplace environment is (hopefully) changing, discuss why gender equality is important and beneficial for the entire scientific community, or hear about some of the challenges that several leading researchers in our field and beyond have mastered throughout their career (or all of the above!).
Several speakers (both women and men) will talk about their career paths and their views about gender equality in science, as well as about the efforts that are being done to achieve that (e.g. flexible working arrangement, Athena SWAN).
Speakers:
Tim Bussey – Department of Psychology, University Cambridge
Susan Gathercole – MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
Francesca Happé – MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, King’s College London
Rik Henson – MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
Emily Holmes – MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
Tom Manly – MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
Sylvia Richardson – MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
Barbara Sahakian – Department of Psychiatry, University Cambridge
A full program can be downloaded here. The poster for the event can be dowloaded from here.
We hope to see many of you there!
The organising committee:
Helen Blank, Nadja Tschentscher and Yaara Erez.
For questions please email us: equality2015@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk