As part of these celebrations, the Gender Equality Committee has organised a series of events that will take place throughout the month. These are some of the events within our School with further events planned University wide.

Tuesday 8 March 10-11am. Top Floor Interaction Area, IRCEP 

Tea and coffee morning to kick off the events.
 

Week of 23 March (a mix of virtual/in-person) 

This Mentorship Event is aimed at pairing gender minority academic/research staff/technicians and PhD students with gender minority undergraduate and PGT students. The aim is to discuss pursuing and working in STEM fields and to share your experiences. The event will take place over several time slots across the week of 23 March. It will be a mixture of virtual and in-person 45-minute sessions pairing 4-5 students with a mentor for the time slot. We are looking for volunteers to serve as mentors for one of these sessions. 

 Please register your interest to be a mentor by 11 March https://forms.office.com/r/1xCLnP5uJx 

 

Women’s Month Seminar

Gleeson is Cavendish of Physics at the University of Leeds. Much of her work has involved understanding liquid crystals, both in the bulk and in devices. She is the Representative to Council for Inclusion and Diversity at the Institute of Physics (IOP) and is the Chair of the IOP’s Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund, which provides financial support to enable students from under-represented groups to undertake PhDs in physics. 

Wednesday 30 March 3:30-4:30pm. Virtual Event, details to follow later. 

Speaker: Prof. Helen Gleeson, OBE FInstP. University of Leeds 

Title: TBA 

We look forward to seeing you all at some or all of these events.