Women and research leadership - knowledge exchange and networking event

The aims of this event are:

• To share experiences, knowledge and tips for building a strong research profile.
• To start building new research networks between women in the faculty of humanities and social sciences.
• To gather reflections on support needed to progress research projects and research leadership.

The morning will comprise of two hour long sessions:

10am-11am Hear from established female researchers from the University of Liverpool as they speak about how they got to where they are today in research, tips on building and leading research teams, how to progress from smaller to larger research projects, challenges and tips they have learned along the way.

Speakers include:

Catherine Durose

Catherine is Professor of Public Policy, and Co-Director of the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place at the University of Liverpool. She is recognised as a leading expert on urban governance and public policy, and has written widely on policy design and implementation, devolution, urban transformation, social and democratic innovation, and participation. Empirically, her work has been focused at urban, city-regional, local, and neighbourhood levels.
Josie Billington

Josie specialises in Victorian literature and in research on reading and health and has published extensively on the power of literary reading to influence mental health including research projects on reading in relation to chronic pain, self-harm, reading with children and families, and the psychodynamics of reading groups, with colleagues in Medicine and Psychology, and with national charity The Reader. Her monograph 'Is Literature Healthy?' was published by Oxford University Press in 2016, and she is a Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellow and a member of the AHRC Peer Review College.

Amandine Garde

Amandine expertise lies at the crossroads of consumer protection, public health, and trade law and policy. More specifically, she researches the role that law, as a discipline, can play in promoting better health for all, contributing in particular to the prevention of chronic diseases at global, regional and national levels. In 2015, she established the Law & Non-Communicable Diseases Research Unit, which advises international organisations, civil society, public health agencies and governments worldwide on the effective regulation of the food, alcohol and tobacco industries to promote better health for all. In particular, she has worked closely with the WHO, Unicef and the European Union for whom she has written many policy reports and developed several legal capacity building courses. She also sits on various advisory groups on the prevention of chronic diseases. She is a Commissioner of The Lancet / Chatham House Commission on Improving Population Health and first president of the Law and public health section of European Public Health Association. She has recently been elected to a honorary fellowship of the UK Faculty of Public Health.

Dilani Jayawarna

Dilani is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Liverpool Management School (ULMS). Externally, she is a Consulting Editor for the International Small Business Journal (ISBJ), a Co-Editor for the journal, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development (ERD), ESRC Peer Review Committee Member, External Examiner for the Doctoral Programme at Lancaster University Management School and a Visiting Chair at the Centre for Enterprise, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. In the past, for six years, Prof Jayawarna worked as the Chair for the Entrepreneurship Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management (BAM) and chaired the entrepreneurship track at BAM annual conference. She Co-Edited the journal, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research (IJEBR)for five years before taking on the Consulting Editor role at ISBJ.

We are encouraging active Q&A as part of these presentations, please come to the session with questions for the speakers based on the above, or to find out more visit UoL staff information pages.

11am-12pm Alys Kay from The Academy will be joining us to facilitate a networking session with speakers and attendees. Attendees will be placed on tables with similar interesed colleagues to discuss their own research, potential projects and partnerships between researchers, plus an opportunity to discuss current challenges and gain tips from the experienced speakers in the previous session.

Host or Publisher HSS Research and Impact Support Team