Gender in Equality Conference

TIME

9.30-10.00

Welcome & Opening Address

Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, NUIG

10.00-10.30

Campaigning against Discrimination at NUI Galway

Maggie Ronayne

SIPTU equality committee, NUIG

Micheline Sheehy Skeffington,

10.30-11.00

The Age of Anxiety – Postgraduate Experiences

Mary McGill, Feminist Society, NUIG

11.00-11.30

The value of women’s networks: NUI Galway and the University Women’s Network

Aoife Cooke, Pat Morgan, Rachel Hilliard,Lorraine McIlrath, Shivaun Quinlivan

11:30-12:00

Panel Discussion

Chair: Tina-Karen Pusse

12.00-1.00

LUNCH

1.00-2.00

Keynote 1 (AM250)

Gender Inequality in Universities: The Problem is women?

Pat O’Connor, University of Limerick

2.00-2.15

Short COMFORT BREAK

2.15-3.00

Casualisation and Gender

“Not one of the family”: Women and Precarity in Irish Academia

Theresa O’ Keefe, Aline Courtois, Jennifer Woods, Third Level Workplace Watch

3.00-3.30

Perspectives of

Non-Academic Staff –

Laura O’Connor, NUIG

3.30-4.00

COFFEE BREAK

(SIPTU & IFUT representatives will be available for chats)

4.00-5.00

Keynote 2 (AM250)

Researching Women in Higher Education: the Personal and the Political

Kelly Coate,

Kings College London

5.00-6.00

Open Plenary Session

Chair: Jennifer Woods