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Dear Diary: Equality Implications for Female Academics of Changes to Working Practices In Lockdown and Beyond. Gender, Space and the Pandemic-implications for staff in HE
UCC Equality Committee and the Department of Sociology and Criminology are delighted to welcome Dr Kate Carruthers to deliver an interactive workshop based on her 2021 www.deardiaryresearch.co.uk with female academics in the UK of working practices, career progression and academic identity during the pandemic. ALL WELCOME. Refreshments will be available.
Kate will deliver a two-hour workshop 15th February, 11-1pm, ORB G27 on the theme of Gender, Space and the Pandemic-implications for staff in HE based on her ‘dear diary’ research.
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In the interactive session we will use content from the Dear Diary Archive to prompt reflection on themes emerging from the archive and the longer-term impacts and implications of the pandemic for our working lives in the Irish HE sector.
In 2021, Kate Carruthers Thomas (Birmingham City University, UK) collected diary and interview data from 25 female academics based at UK universities in an investigation of their experiences of working practices, career progression and academic identity during the pandemic. The Dear Diary research data has now been curated in an open access Illustrated Digital Archive (www.deardiaryresearch.co.uk ) and a Final Project Report has been published by SRHE https://srhe.ac.uk/research/completed-award-reports/