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Registration link for the GRP ID postrgaduate conference, 15 June 2017 "Changing Landscapes of Gender In/equality : Theories, Policies and Mobilisations" is now live and running.

The current practice whereby comprehensive schools place able girls as buffers between less able and badly behaved boys is indeed questionable and certainly reinforces the argument that coeducational schools are geared towards the needs of boys. It is also in no doubt that some of the strongest and most impressive academic performance is observed in girls’ schools. However, the expansion of single-sex schools will not serve to increase the number of women in science.

Applications are now invited for a fully-funded doctoral studentship to commence in October 2017. The studentship is embedded in a research project on gender and educational success in Haryana, India, which is funded by the Fair Chance Foundation. The studentship is co-funded by Fair Chance Foundation and the University of Warwick’s Collaborative Postgraduate Research Scholarships (WCPRS) scheme. The studentship reflects the university’s commitment to producing the next generation of international leaders in social science research. Fair Chance Foundation, which was founded by a Warwick alumnus, is committed to improving the future livelihoods of disadvantaged children and young adults through education. The Fair Chance Foundation, which funds several projects in India, helps by both directly funding education, and by promoting education as a means to a better life. The principal goals of Fair Chance Foundation are to: research attitudes towards education as a means to end poverty and gender bias; develop interventions which create desire for education as a means to end poverty and gender bias; formally research and publish interventions and outcomes; develop guides and promote the research to help policy makers make informed choices about which interventions are likely to have most impact; provide direct support to children and young adults.

GRP International Development : Panel on Women and Science -

"What do women scientists bring to global development?”

1 March, 4pm - 6pm, Oculus: OC.104

Speakers :

Professor Jane Hutton, University of Warwick, winner of the Suffrage Science award
Professor Pratibha Gai, University of York, winner of the L’Oreal UNESCO Women in Science Award
Professor Faith Osier, winner Fith Annual Merle A. Sande Health Leadership Award and a member of the Royal Society
Professor Charlotte Watson, founder of the Gender, Violence and Health Centre and Chief Scientific Advisor at DfID

Chaired by Professor Swaran Singh, University of Warwick, WMS - Mental Health and Wellbeing

The panel will address the challenges and opportunities women face as scientists, and the contribution that they have made in addressing urgent problems. This event is part of a series focussing on gender inequalities and transforming gender relations and how this can contribute to the international development agenda. The panel will include four female science professors from across the full range of the natural sciences, with special interest in gender issues and/or international development.