Athena SWAN Workshop: Gendered Language: Why We Need Deliberate Disruption

Athena SWAN Workshop: Gendered Language: Why We Need Deliberate Disruption

Join Vivienne Porritt, Leadership Consultant and Strategic Leader of #WomenEd, and Dr Jane Chambers, Chair of the Athena SWAN Self-Assessment Team at St Mary's, for a workshop discussion on Gendered language. Gendered language covers the way we talk about ourselves as well as the way others talk about us and to us. We’ll explore these issues and how we can change the language and its impact.

This event is open to all St Mary’s staff and students.

Wednesday 24 November | 16.00 – 17.00

The workshop will be held via Zoom – please register via https://stmarys.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsce-grTkpEt03jXTpGtT-sVq9kNNvh7Hg

If you have any questions about the event, please email equalitycharters@stmarys.ac.uk.

More About Vivienne Porritt:

Vivienne Porritt is a Leadership consultant supporting school and academy leaders with professional learning and development, impact evaluation, vision and strategy and women's leadership.

Previously Vivienne was a secondary headteacher in Surrey, Executive Director of the London Centre for Leadership in Learning and Director for School Partnerships at University College London, Institute of Education, as well as a Chair of Governors. She is a TEDx speaker, a coach, an author and a Founding Fellow and Vice President of The Chartered College of Teaching.

Vivienne is also, joyously, one of the Co-Founders and Global Strategic Leaders of WomenEd, a voluntary organisation that seeks to empower and connect existing and aspiring women leaders in global education. In 2017, Women Ed was named as one of the top ten education influencers by the Times Educational Supplement. Vivienne is also the co-editor of 10% braver: Inspiring Women to Lead Education (Sage, 2019) and Being 10% Braver (Corwin, 2021).

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