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Women's Leadership Seminar Series: Negotiating Academia
Three women participants at a workshop
The Women’s Leadership seminars are a collaborative, cross-institution initiative to bring women in research together for discussion, support and community.
Running termly through 2025-26, our speakers will bring their own perspective on women in leadership, and share their journey through academia and beyond.
This first session will offer the opportunity of a practical space to work with others in reflective activities around negotiating the changing academic career as a woman leader, as well as locating this in the wider contexts of gendered work, leadership, and contemporary academia.
This includes thinking around:
- Identifying and creating space for priorities including confronting ’energy drainers’;
- What research leadership means in later career;
- Reflecting on contributions to self, others, and academic culture;
- Locating academic priorities in the context of wider life, priorities and values.
The session will be led by Professor Tamsin Hinton-Smith, drawing on her academic leadership and experience coaching women academic leaders. Tamsin has more than 20 years of research, teaching and training experience in gender, equalities and higher education.
If you work in research or in a role supporting researchers at Sussex, or you’re a student or staff member and curious to know more, you’re welcome to join us! Light refreshments will be provided.
Find out more about the work we’re doing to empower and connect women in research on the Women’s Leadership Academy webpage.