Overcoming gender bias in university careers Did you attend jobs.ac.uk’s and Women-Space’s live webinar on navigating the barriers and challenges in higher education? With guidance from Professor Christina Hughes and an expert panel, our session discussed the underrepresentation of women leaders in higher education and solutions for helping women to…>
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Women Leaders in Higher Education – Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell
Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, President & Vice-Chancellor, The University of Manchester, kindly agreed to answer questions about her career. Please can you talk us through your career to date? I initially wanted to study art (I did A level art at art college in the evenings) but I realised how…>
Women Leaders in Higher Education – Professor Christina Hughes
I had the pleasure of chatting with Professor Christina Hughes to discuss how she overcame barriers to be appointed in several senior leadership roles across universities, including head of department, chair of faculty, pro-vice-chancellor, Provost and Interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor. She is also the CEO and founder of Women-Space, which provides…>
Women in Higher Education
The number of women in academic leadership roles is growing slowly. Whilst this is good news, could more be done to encourage women leaders in academia?
Jackie Thompson – Marketing and Communications Manager
Jackie Thompson is currently a Marketing and Communications Manager for one of our colleges. The University of Edinburgh has three colleges, and I am the manager for the college of arts, humanities and social science.
Karen Frost – Student Experience Marketing
Karen Frosts role is to promote and market Durham’s wider student experience, everything outside of student’s studies. All the fun stuff…
Jamie Brown – Head of Communications
Jamie Brown talks to us about his role as Head of Communications in the Division of Communications and Marketing at The University of Manchester.