Thursday 9 March 2023 between 12.00pm and 2.00pm.

This invite with the new date and times is being sent to you as a current member of our Athena Swan Network.

This event is taking place in the same building but a different room which is M2 Lecture Theatre, which is in the Teaching Centre (building beside WBS). There will still be a networking opportunity during the event times in the foyer area outside of the room, but due to another booking in the room we’ll be using for this event, the timings are slightly shorter that previously planned.

Drinks and biscuits/cakes will be provided and available at the event, and please do feel free to bring your lunch with you, to eat during the event or with colleagues during the networking element.

Programme for the event:

• 12.00pm: arrivals, introductions, and informal networking
• 12.10pm: Update from AS SAT on institutional application planning and preparation (Kate Seers)
• 12.25pm: Insights from Sociology: Departmental level experience with short Q and A (Maria do Mar Pereira)
• 12.50pm: Insights from Advance HE reviewers with short Q and A (Robert Horton and Helen Knee)
• 1.20pm: Q and A session for expansion of questions from presentations (All)
• 1.40pm: Close of conversation, start of refreshments and networking (Kate and Andy)
• 1.50pm: Everyone to have moved out of room into informal networking in foyer area
• 2.00pm: Event close and informal networking until 2.15pm

Actions:

• Please do accept this invitation if you will be joining us in person on the day, as this will help guide catering orders and ensure we have enough refreshments for everyone attending. Thank you.
• If you have any colleagues who are not a current member of the Athena Swan Network, who would like to attend, please forward this invite over to them for them to accept to attend, and please ask them to email me on this email address to request to be added to the AS Network membership.
• Whilst this event will primarily be an in-person conversation and networking event, it may be possible for some colleagues to join us for the conversation on-line. If you are not able to attend in person and would like to join online, please email to request joining details and we’ll look to share in advance of the event.
• Finally, If you are receiving this invite and no longer want to be part of the Athena Swan Network, please respond to the invite to ask to be taken off the list. If there is a colleague in your area of work that should be added in your place, please do let me know and I can make these amends.