Schedule - Day 1

WIASN welcome

Amy Bonsall, Kelly Pickard-Smith, Eleonora Belfiore

Workshop 1 – EDI in Publishing

Facilitator(s):

Danielle Ormshaw, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Manager

Stephanie Hull, Head of Content Acquisition

Emerald Publishing

Workshop 2 - Ignoring reality? Shared Parental Leave and Breastfeeding in UK Higher Education Institutions

Facilitators: Ernestine Gheyoh Ndzi and Anjali Raj

York St John University

Presentation 1 – (Un)conventional ways of flexibility, observation and adaptability

Chair: Jennifer Leigh

Flexible Working and a Flexible Life? A Listening Project.

Katie Clemmey, Kerry Holman and Alison Leonard

Canterbury Christ Church University

"Women’s Issues in Chinese Online Fanfiction: Observations from an Acafan"

Songyan Li, University of Manchester

Keynote 1 - Overcoming EDI obstacles

Chair: Laura Sjoberg

Nadia Brown, Georgetown University

Saara Sarma, Tampere University

Anisha Asundi, Harvard University

Workshop 3 – The joy of writing

Facilitator(s):

Rowena Murray,University of the West of Scotland

Maureen Michael, University of Stirling

Panel 1 - Engaging with Social Media for HE and research

Udeochu Philip, Facebook Community Manager Portfolio 9

Louise Davies, Facebook Community Manager Food Teachers

Madalyn Wright, Facebook Community Manager Working Class Studies Association

Presentation 3 – Women’s diverse experiences and emotions in academia

Chair: Nia Wearn

Writing through tears: Women, grief and hope in the academy

Cecile Badenhorst, Heather McLeod, Abena Omenaa Boachie, Bahar Haghighat, Julia Halfyard and Haley Toll

Memorial University

Diverse student experiences of online learning: Organic collaborative research during a pandemic

Dianne Forbes, University of Waikato

Cheryl Brown, University of Canterbury

Maggie Hartnett, Massey University

Dilani Gedera, Auckland University of Technology

Ashwini Datt, University of Auckland