Equality & DiversityEvents

International Women's Day 2021

International Women’s Day takes place on 8 March, celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, while making a call to action to accelerate women's equality.

A number of events will be taking place online throughout March, reflecting the themes of International Women’s Day as well as exploring women’s development, progression and leadership at Strathclyde.

  • 08
    Mar
    3pm-7pm

    Breaking Barriers - International Women's Day Event

     To mark International Women's Day 2021, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and partners invite you to a series of inspirational panel discussions and motivational talks focused around this year's theme of #ChooseToChallenge. Designed to raise aspirations and challenge bias, this unique virtual event will equip you with the toolkit to succeed in your transition from education into the workplace.
  • 09
    Mar
    12-1pm

    Women in academia: Optimising Our Potential - Professor Margaret Watson

    An event to hear about key findings and recommendations from Mags Watson’s book Women in Academia: Optimising Our Potential. Mags Watson is the GTAP Professor of Health Services Research and Pharmacy Practice, University of Strathclyde, and an honorary Professor with the University of Bath and has over 25 years’ experience of academic research.
  • 18
    March
    10-12noon

    The 5 Powerful & Transformative Questions - Taylor Clarke

    Taylor Clarke is delighted to be offering this 2hr introductory workshop on Dr John Scherer’s 5 powerful and transformative questions designed to lead you ‘home to self’, which is where your best and most authentic leadership comes from.
  • 23
    March
    11-12.30

    Career Anchors and Circles of Influence

    This workshop will use Edgar Schein’s Career Anchors questionnaire to help you identify your signature career strengths. You will then use Stephen Covey’s Circles of Influence tool to help you look at the things that concern you, to help you realise you could have more power than you think over things that feel may be out of your control.
  • 24
    March
    10-12pm

    Women into Leadership session with Ros Taylor

     Spend time with colleagues exploring your personal strengths and leadership style, women and power, increasing confidence and thinking styles. Delivered by: Ros Taylor – CEO RTC Leadership & Coaching and Visiting Professor Strathclyde University
  • 25
    March
    11-12.30

    Finding your strengths and using them to achieve your ambitions

    A taster workshop on Finding your Strengths and Using them to Achieve your Ambition presented by Jan Lee. This workshop will give you the opportunity to understand your key strengths and explore how you can apply them to your work and life. You will have the opportunity to find out your top five strengths, using Gallup’s strength finder.

International Women's Day 2021 - Additional Resources

Stanford Online: Getting What You Want: How Women Can Unleash Their Inner Negotiator – Webinar
72% of women say they would rather avoid negotiation which means they may be missing out on career development opportunities, In this webinar, Stanford Professor Margaret Neale shows you how to leverage your problem-solving strengths to become an effective negotiator and create social influence. Watch now >>

Advance HE Resources:

Webinar recordings – (NB access to these requires registration and log-in to our free Advance HE Connect networking platform before clicking on the links below)
Building better together: frameworks advancing gender and race equality (Nov 19) 
Doing leadership – with humanity, from the middle out (Feb 20)
Higher Education Leadership in the Pandemic Age – from crisis to connected campus
Global Perspectives: Higher Education – who belongs here?

Athena Swan related resources
Athena Swan Charter
Good Practice initiatives

Other Resources
Equality and HE: Annual statistical report on staff and students
Gender Equality in HE
Women’s Leadership in HE
Building back better for gender equality in HE
Aurora – independent longitudinal report highlighting impact of Aurora

Throughout March

March 2021

Women’s History Month

1           UN Zero Discrimination Day

1           Self Injury Awareness Day

8           International Women’s Day

20         International Day of Happiness

21         International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

31         International Transgender Day of Visibility