We are excited to launch our first menopause awareness event on World Menopause Day.

• Siobhan O’Reilly, HR Director will be discussing why menopause in the workplace matters and sharing our plans for Sussex University to be a menopause friendly accredited employer

• Sussex academic, Dr Jill Kirby, Lecturer in History will be delivering a talk on “Silent women sufferers” and the menopause.

• Moira Blake, Head of OD will be delivering our new menopause awareness workshop.

11.30

Siobhan O’Reilly, HR Director will be discussing why menopause in the workplace matters and sharing details our plans to become an accredited Menopause friendly employer, discussing our forthcoming menopause policy, well-being guides and training for line managers.

12.00

Sussex academic, Dr Jill Kirby, Lecturer in History will be delivering a talk on “Silent women sufferers” and the menopause.

In this short talk Dr Jill Kirby will briefly outline the history of menopause from the creation of the term in the 19th century via the development of hormone treatments in the 1930s to the silence and taboo around the topic that have existed until very recently. She will draw on personal accounts of women in the early 1970s to illustrate the frustrations and challenges that women were experiencing in trying to get support for menopausal symptoms, many of which still resonate today.

12.45

Menopause Awareness Training – How to support your colleagues

Moira Blake, Head of OD will deliver our new menopause awareness training for staff at Sussex. She’ll be discussing, what is the menopause, its impact and how you can support colleagues in the workplace.

1.30 pm Close

Raising Menopause Awareness – World Menopause Day