Business and Management Schools are at the forefront of educating our future leaders and managers. Through ongoing engagement with industry leaders, policy-makers, and public and government bodies they are well-placed to shape the development of inclusive cultures in organisations and to influence national and global policy and research agendas. Yet women’s progress in academic roles, both globally and in the UK, lags behind men’s. This reflects a persistent overall pattern of gender inequality in Higher Education.

Women remain under-represented in all disciplines and at all levels of academia, especially at professorial level, in senior leadership roles, including deans, university vice-chancellors and presidents; and in gate-keeping positions, such as on editorial boards and research funding bodies.

These challenges provide the context for the EU funded Horizon2020 international TARGETED-MPI project - Transparent And Resilient Gender Equality Through Integrated Monitoring Planning and Implementation. The project aims to address gender inequality in Business and Management Schools through the development, implementation and monitoring of Gender Equality Plans.

Join five international Business and Management Schools from Greece, the UK, Sweden, Belgium and the Lebanon involved in the TARGETED-MPI project to explore innovative initiatives in addressing gender inequality, and to discuss the challenges and lessons learned in implementing and integrating Gender Equality planning in their organisations.

Overview Agenda:

12:00-12:45pm: Presentations of interventions to address gender inequality in five B&M schools.

12:45 – 13.45 pm: Panel Discussions and Q&A

Embedding gender equality in B&M schools. Enablers, challenges and lessons learned.

13:45-14:00 pm: Closing remarks.

Confirmed Speakers

Dr Fida Afiouni, American University of Beirut
Dr Sophie Alkhaled, Lancaster University Management School
Dr Jelena Angelis, Stockholm School of Economics
Professor Eleni Apospori, Athens University of Economics and Business – Research Center
Ella Oelbrandt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Professor Valerie Stead, Lancaster University Management School

Speaker Bios

Dr Fida Afiouni, American University of Beirut

Fida Afiouni is an Associate Professor of HRM at the Olayan School of Business and currently serves as Associate Provost and serves on the steering committee of the diversity, equity and inclusion office at AUB. Fida is also an elected board member in the Lebanese League for Women in Business.

Dr Sophie Alkhaled, Lancaster University Management School

Sophie Alkhaled is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS). She is the Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Lead, Athena Swan and Race Equality Charter representative for LUMS. Her research and teaching focus on the intersectionality of gender, entrepreneurship and empowerment, and their collective impact as a catalyst for social change and poverty alleviation.

Dr Jelena Angelis, Stockholm School of Economics

Jelena Angelis is a member of the Targeted-MPI project team at the Stockholm School of Economics. She brings extensive experience in international projects and research and analytical work in policy research. She has worked on numerous assignments on the inter-related areas of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), and entrepreneurship for clients including the World Bank, OECD, European Commission, Nordic Innovation, Nordic Council of Ministers.

Professor Eleni Apospori, Athens University of Economics and Business – Research Center

Eleni Apospori is Professor of Organizational Behavior at Athens University of Economics and Business. She has extended published work, including articles in journals such as Human Resource Management Journal, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Psychiatry, and American Journal of Public Health. Her research interests include gender and career in structural meso/macro contexts.

Ella Oelbrandt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

With her background in sociology, Ella Oelbrandt is interested in the structural inequalities that influence our social interaction and how they come about. Currently, she’s studying gender inequality in the academic workplace and well-being in general.

Professor Valerie Stead, Lancaster University Management School

Valerie Stead is Professor of Leadership and Director of the Academy for Gender, Work and Leadership, an area of research expertise at Lancaster University Management School. Valerie’s research on gender and leadership is widely published in peer reviewed journals. She is a Fellow of the British Academy of Management and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

About the organiser

TARGETED-MPI (Transparent And Resilient Gender Equality Through Integrated Monitoring Planning and Implementation) is an EU funded Horizon2020 project that has formed a Gender Equality Observatory network with partner universities from 5 countries. Partners include Athens University of Economics and Business (Project Lead, Greece), Lancaster University Management School (UK), Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), the American University of Beirut (Lebanon). TARGETED-MPI’s overarching objective is to tackle gender inequality in Business and Management schools with benefit to research organisations across ERA through the development, effective implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of Gender Equality Plans (GEPs).

https://targeted-mpi.eu/

Organised by Lancaster University Management School

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/

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Advancing Gender Equality in Business & Management Schools