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Queen’s Gender Initiative in partnership with
QUMS Institute of Leadership

Women in Leadership: Challenging Times Create Exciting Opportunities

Speakers:

·     Judith Gillespie, Deputy Chief Constable, PSNI

·     Maire O’Neill, Professor, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

·     Elizabeth Pollitzer, Director, Portia Ltd

·     Jill Garrett, LT Consulting Ltd

Time & Venue: 9.30 am – 1.30 pm, Friday 21 October,   Queen's University, Belfast

To book a place at the conference, please choose one of the registration links below:

QUB Staff:  To book a place log onto Queens Online -www.qub.ac.uk/qol  - then select Training Courses from the list on the left of the page.  When searching for the course on the online registration system please ensure you use the exact wording from the above course title.

All others go to:https://admin.qol.qub.ac.uk/ecommerce/wilead/index.php 

Please send any queries to: womeninleadership@qub.ac.uk or contact Cathy Tolan on: 02890 973712

The conference speakers are established leaders in public, professional, corporate and academic life. Conference delegates will learn how the speakers created, identified and took advantage of opportunities during good times and in more challenging contexts.

Please check our Events page for more information and registration details.
 

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Returners scheme helping those with a background in science, engineering and technology to return after a career break.

The Daphne Jackson Trust is an independent charity which offers flexible, part-time, paid fellowships to scientists, engineers and technologists who have taken a career break of two or more years for family, caring or health reasons.

Its work has been highly praised by Government and it is acknowledged as running the foremost returners scheme in the country.

Fellowships are normally two years in length and based at universities and industrial laboratories throughout the UK. Fellows undertake a challenging research project and a retraining programme.

The Trust has a 96% success rate in returning Fellows to science, engineering or technology careers.

Please support the Daphne Jackson Trust by giving a donation towards our valuable work.

 http://www.daphnejackson.org/

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‘Supporting Research Excellence’

A meeting of the Local Academic Women’s Network (LAWN)

Date: 14th September 2011 (10.00h – 16.00h)

Venue:  Harty Room/McMordie Room (School of Music)

We are in hosting a meeting to be held at Queen’s University, Belfast on 14th September of the Local Academic Women’s Network (LAWN), which was supported originally in Northern Ireland by the Athena Project to encourage the advancement of women in science, engineering and technology (SET).  The particular purpose of the LAWN meeting on this occasion is to develop, within the context of equality considerations, knowledge and expertise around the challenges of leading high quality research.  We are delighted to have Professor Dame Wendy Hall (University of Southampton) and Professor Teresa Rees (Cardiff University) as visiting speakers.

Wendy Hall, DBE FRS FREng is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton and Dean of the Faculty of Physical and Applied Sciences.  One of the first computer scientists to undertake serious research in multimedia and hypermedia, she has been at its leading edge ever since. She also helps shape science and engineering policy and education. Through her positions on many national and international bodies, she acts as an important role model for women in SET.

Teresa Rees, CBE AcSS FRSA is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences and has recently completed a six-year term as Pro Vice Chancellor (Research) at Cardiff University. She is particularly interested in gender mainstreaming and analysing how policies and practices can reproduce patterns of inequality. She is a long-term expert advisor to the European Commission on Women and Science, and is currently Chair of the Research Excellence Framework 2014 Equality and Diversity Advisory Group.

Professor Barbara McDermott (Convenor)
Local Academic Women’s Network
Queen's Gender Initiative Office
Queen’s University Belfast

Tel: 02890 973712
Email: qgi@qub.ac.uk

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Welcome to the application site of the European Union Women Innovators prize.

The EU Prize for Women Innovators will be awarded to three women entrepreneurs, who were at some point during their careers beneficiaries of funding for projects under the RTD Framework Programme (FP) or the Competitive and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP). It is time to have your accomplishments recognised and maybe win one of the first EU Prizes for Women Innovators!

You are just three steps away from winning one of the following prizes for your innovative work in any field or business:

First step: we will ask for your personal details. Second step: you will be asked to upload a scanned version of the business register of the company you (co-) founded as well as a scanned version of any official papers demonstrating that you received or are receiving FP or CIP funding. Please make sure that you have these documents at hand before you start the submission. As a last step, we would like you to present your achievements to us.

The application process is designed to be as simple as possible. Should you need further clarification, please call the help line directly on: 0032 483 506 825 or e-mail us at: rtd-women-innovators@ec.europa.eu.

The deadline for submission of applications is 20 September 2011 at 17.00 (Brussels local time). The award ceremony will take place on 5 December 2011 at the Innovation Convention organised by the European Commission in Brussels.

Application site of the European Union Women Innovators prize

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Queen’s University has emerged as Northern Ireland’s top employer for women, and one of only two universities to feature in the UK’s top 50 workplaces for female staff.

Welcoming the University’s listing in the definitive Times Top 50 Employers for Women, Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Gregson said the accolade is further recognition of Queen’s role as a UK pioneer in promoting gender equality.

Professor Gregson said: “This accolade reflects the very positive work being undertaken across the University to attract, recruit and retain the most creative, talented, and capable women in higher education.

“We are committed to ensuring that women can develop their full personal and professional potential. The Times listing, coupled with our recent promotions exercise, which saw seven women among our 14 new professors, shows that we are well along the way to achieving this aim, and I congratulate all involved.”

The Times listing was managed by the workplace gender equality organisation Opportunity Now, whose Director Helen Wells, paid tribute to the University.

She said: “I firmly believe that creating workplaces which tap into the talents of all is an imperative. At Queen’s University Belfast this is clearly seen as a strategic issue, not purely a women’s issue.

“Queen’s should be congratulated for its commitment and tenacity in creating a work culture which is inclusive and diverse. Being one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Women is testament to how seriously the University has worked to address the recruitment, retention and progression of women through its organisational structure.”

Director of Queen’s Gender Initiative Professor Yvonne Galligan said that the University has worked hard over the past decade to become a role model for equal opportunities practice.

She added: “I believe that our success in winning this award comes from our efforts to make the workplace a woman-friendly environment. We developed a mentoring scheme, paid particular attention to women’s recruitment and retention in the Science subjects, introduced a wide range of policies supporting women’s careers, and sought to change the culture. We are very proud to be recognised in this way.”

Since it was founded in 2000, Queen's Gender Initiative has also produced a stream of tangible results in relation to flexible working, enhanced childcare provision and the establishment of a central maternity fund.

Queen’s News Release April 2011

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