‘Gendered Inclusion in Contemporary Organisations’ - ESRC Funded Seminar Series 2015-2018

Seminar 6: Gendered Inclusion in 'traditional' and 'creative' sector organisations and industries

Thursday, 31st of May 2018

Middlesex University, London

This seminar series has set out to shift the way we theorise the persistence and experiences of ongoing discrimination in organisations by moving away from explanations based on an assumption of exclusion towards a focus on critically scrutinising how women and men are included in organizations today. Throughout the series, an array of fantastic international and interdisciplinary speakers sought to challenge the postfeminist mantra that women ‘never had it so good’ by exposing old and new gendered challenges and inequalities contemporary workplaces, suggesting that women’s inclusion still remains partial and conditional http://www.mdx.ac.uk/events/2017/10/esrc-gendered-inclusion-seminar-series.

Seminar 6 (9.30pm- 4.30pm) will look at the patterns of women’s inclusion in traditional, male-dominated industries to see if there has been much change, and also examine gendered work in ‘creative sectors’ which are considered to be more ‘female-friendly’. Speakers will discuss the issues related to gendered inclusion in finance, construction, aviation, music, film industry and journalism, illuminating how and on what conditions women are included, and how inclusion rhetoric continues to be intertwined with and often obscures continuous and new types of gender exclusion.

Speakers include:

-Karen Lee Ashcraft (Professor of Organisational Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder)

-Melissa Fisher (Lauritis Andersen Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen)

-Tessa Wright (Reader at the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London)

- Christina Scharff (Senior Lecturer at the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London)

- Natalie Wreyford (Research Fellow on ‘Calling the Short’ project, Faculty of Humanities at the University of Southampton)

- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (A renowned British journalist and author, and a Professor at Middlesex university)

Organisers: The seminar series is organised by Dr Maria Adamson (Middlesex), Professor Elisabeth Kelan (Cranfield), Dr Patricia Lewis (Kent), Professor Nick Rumens (Middlesex), Professor Martyna Śliwa (Essex)

Bursaries: To encourage the participation of early career scholars and PhD students, we have a number of TRAVEL BURSARIES. To apply for a bursary please email Dr Maria Adamson m.adamson@mdx.ac.uk providing a brief account of your circumstances and why you are interested in attending the seminar. Bursaries are allocated on the first-come-first-served basis.

When: 31 of May 2018, 9.30am to 4.30pm. Registration/coffee 9.30am. Talks start at 10.00am.

Where: The Boardroom, Middlesex University, The Burroughs, Hendon, London
NW4 4BT https://www.mdx.ac.uk/get-in-touch/directions-london

The closest tube station is Hendon Central from which it is about 10-15min walk to campus; there are also a number of buses that stop directly next to the University.

The seminar is FREE to attend. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. PLEASE NOTE that this is the first of day of a 2-day final event in the series. If you want to attend both days you need to register for each day separately.

To register for DAY 2 please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gendered-inclusion-in-organisations-drawing-conclusions-and-setting-research-agenda-for-critical-tickets-45291066800