IMC 2014: Sessions

This round table discussion follows on from last year's highly successful SMFS/GMS-sponsored round table discussion ('Gender, Posts, Positions, Pay and Promotion'), which concluded by positing a continued need for collective action by women academics as a countermeasure to the vestiges of institutionalised sexism - whether conscious or unconscious - still experienced by many women in the profession. The 2014 round table, therefore, will focus on what we mean by 'collective action' and the ways in which it can be established and promoted to support women working within the academic environment. As usual, it will focus on both experiential and theoretical approaches, examining the ways in which women's collaboration and cooperation within academic contexts carry the potential to form a whole much greater than the sum of the parts. It will also debate how collaborative action can effect mutual support as women help each other to succeed, progress and ultimately dismantle the glass-ceiling that the 2013 round table identified as still clearly operating within the profession.

Participants include Catherine J. Batt (University of Leeds), Roberta Magnani (Swansea University), and Sarah Schäfer-Althaus (Universität Paderborn).