Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i256p8I25764; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 01:51:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 01:51:09 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20040305064655.98830.qmail@web11008.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: listowner@nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Ujwala Samant <lalumineuse@yahoo.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2883] Conference on Women in Higher Education X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O Content-Length: 4060 Lines: 167 Further to this message yesterday, I have today heard that the deadline for abstracts has been extended to March 30, so if you are interested please contact Shirley Silcock <ss1@bolton.ac.uk> Sue Susan Jackson wrote: > Colleagues - > Please find below information about the forthcoming Women in Higher Education > Network conference, which might be of interest. > Best wishes > Sue > > WOMEN IN HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORK NATIONAL CONFERENCE > > RE-INVENTING ACADEMIC CULTURE / > HARMONIZING LIFE AND WORK: > PROVISIONING FOR SURVIVAL, EXCELLENCE > AND SOCIAL PURPOSE > > 14-15 MAY 2004 BOLTON INSTITUTE > > Plenary speakers: > Professor Mary Mellor, Chair of the Sustainable Cities Research Institute, > Northumbria University > Claire Ridgeley & Jill Scott, Staffordshire University HEFCE funded Flexible > Employment Options Project > Dr Michelle Tytherleigh, University of Plymouth, Project Leader: HEFCE funded > Occupational Stress in HE Project > > The past twenty years have seen more women academic staff in H.E., but white > women remain predominant. At the same time, policy changes have produced > increased workloads and intensification of work practices, which together have > served to polarise work and personal life, thereby reinforcing existing > inequalities of access and quality participation, including among and between > women. > > We are keen to look at the ways in which the academy makes intense and intensive > demands on the time and energy of its women workers. We seek to understand the > organising principles of the power games that are being played. The conference > builds on previous WHEN events. Time and time management have consequences, > not only for individual women (who gets to participate, how and at what cost?), > but for conditions of service, the organisational culture of H.E., and the > relation between academia, society and the global environment. > > The conference will bring together and examine evidence of womens experience, > womens organisation and activism, and the application of feminist theory, in > order to develop an agenda for change in policy and practice in higher > education. > > HARMONIZING LIFE AND WORK: problems & issues > 7 What types of impacts have recent policy changes had on different groups of > women workers in H.E.? > 7 How has research, writing, teaching and administration been affected? > 7 Theorizing the gendered speeding up of time and collapse of space. > 7 What has been the effect on the academic career? Is it possible to take time > out or to focus on projects not directly related to officially recognised > criteria? > 7 (How) have the physical and psychological effects of work intensification been > experienced? > > HARMONIZING LIFE AND WORK: ideas & strategies > 7 Sustaining a healthy balance between life and work. > 7 The positive potential of current and future policy changes and initiatives. > 7 The value and implications of an ecofeminist perspective for understanding and > changing academic culture: its indifference to provisioning for the life of the > body and the sustaining of community; and the differential consequences of > recent masculinist, economistic managerialism for women in the academy. > 7 What might the HE sector of the future look like if these issues are fully > taken into account? > > Activities related to stress management, including massage, will be offered > during the conference. An additional fee will be charged if participants wish to > book these services. > > Further information from Shirley Silcock <ss1@bolton.ac.uk> > > -- > Dr Susan Jackson > Lifelong Learning and Citizenship > Faculty of Continuing Education > Birkbeck College > University of London > 26 Russell Square > London WC1B 5DQ > Tel: 020 7631 6625 (direct line) > 020 7631 6666 > Fax: 020 7631 6683 > e-mail: s.jackson@bbk.ac.uk > http://www.bbk.ac.uk/fce/lll/index.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com
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