UCC leads on GEEF 2023 Project

21 Dec 2023

UCC is project lead on GEEF 2023 mentoring project, ENGAGE.

We are delighted to share the news on recent funding success. ENGAGE: Empowering New Generations, Advancing Gender Equality through Reverse Mentoring in Higher Education is an innovative scheme funded by the HEA Gender Equality Enhancement Funded 2023 that plans to implement a reverse mentoring initiative across four Higher Education Institutions in Ireland: University College Cork (UCC), University of Galway, Munster Technology University (MTU) and University of Limerick (UL). Flipping the traditional power dynamics present in traditional mentoring relationships, this reverse mentoring scheme will pair early career female academic, research, and professional staff as mentors to senior male and female managers to explore and contest the gendered barriers faced by female colleagues in the higher education sector and to explore career development in a novel way. Watch this space for the call for Expressions of Interest in 2024.

ENGAGE Project team: Prof. Ciara Heavin, Prof. Nuala Finnegan, Dr. Claire Murray in collaboration with UCC HR and MTU, UL, University of Galway.