Event Date and Time:

29 April

11:00 - 13:00

Description:

The trolling and online harassment of women on social media is an invidious form of violence towards women. Female experts in their field speaking in the public domain have frequently been subjected to gratuitous abuse and harassment; and this is particularly the case when speaking about topics considered to be controversial, contested and/or subject to a barrage of misinformation and ‘fake news’ on social media.

This timely and important discursive panel webinar brings together three prestigious women scientists, including two Independent Sage members, whose cutting-edge work on the on-going Covid-19 pandemic been widely shared across the British media. All three have experienced online harassment and abuse relating to their work in the public domain. Here they will discuss their experiences, concerns and reflections on such abuse and its wider gendered, social implications. The event will be facilitated by an expert in her own field of sports psychology, serving to bring a further, inclusive dimension to the endemic experiences of abuse and harassment across women’s professional engagement in social media.

The audience will be invited to respectfully participate on the issues raised through invited questions.

Our esteemed panellists are:

Professor Susan Michie, Professor Health Psychology, University College London. Independent Sage member.

Dr Deepti Gurdasani, Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning, Queen Mary, University of London.

Professor Christina Pagel, Professor of Operational Research, University College London. Independent Sage member.

Panel Facilitator:

Dr Emma Kavanagh, Senior Lecturer Sports Psychology and Coaching Sciences), Bournemouth University.

This event will be opened by the Pro-Vice Chancellor of Bournemouth University, Dr Sue Sutherland, OBE.

The event will be chaired by Professor Sara Ashencaen Crabtree of the Women’s Academic Network at the same institution.

For further information on this event please contact scrabtree@bournemouth.ac.uk

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Online harassment and abuse of female scientists in the public sphere