Professor John Macnicol,
University College London (UCL)

Research seminar, University of St Andrews

Wednesday 12 June 2019

12.30pm – 2pm

Professor Macnicol presents a seminar entitled “Analysing ageism and age discrimination (at work)”. In the last twenty years, there has been much discussion of ageism and age discrimination in employment in the UK. Many argue that age should join class, gender and race as protected characteristics in any modern, civilised society. However, there are intriguing problems with the timing of this renewed interest, and in many ways both concepts have been under discussion for a very long time. It is possible, for example, to see interest in age discrimination in employment as far back as the 1930s. The question is, therefore, why these disadvantages have re-appeared on the public policy agenda, and to what extent they have been used to justify a workfarist agenda which may not be in the best interests of older people.

Professor Jacqueline Stevenson,
Sheffield Hallam University

Research seminar, University of St Andrews

Wednesday 21 November 2018

12.30pm – 2pm

Professor Jacqueline Stevenson presents a seminar entitled “Why is there still a degree attainment gap? Findings from research and practice”.

Professor Barbara Risman,
University of Illinois Chicago

Research seminar, University of St Andrews

Wednesday 30 May 2018

12.30pm – 2pm

Professor Risman presents a seminar entitled “From sex roles to gender as a social structure: Implications for organisational change”.  In this talk, Professor Risman presents a theory for understanding gender inequality that goes far beyond defining gender as identity.  Instead, she argues that gender is a structure that includes individual level identities, but also the interactional expectations linked to sex category, institutional policies which embed expectations into organizations, and cultural logics which legitimate inequality.   The only way to decrease inequality is to address each level of analysis, and do so with attention to the material reality and cultural beliefs. The public policy and organizational implications of understanding gender as a social structure will be highlighted.  A discussion of this new generation of workers, Millennials, will be included in the conversation.

Dr Nikola Balvin,
UNICEF Office of Research

Research seminar, University of St Andrews

Monday 12 February 2018

1pm – 2.30pm

Dr Balvin, Knowledge Management Specialist at the UNICEF Office of Research, presents a seminar entitled ‘Working at the crossroads between evidence and practice to achieve gender equality’.

Dr Kim Peters,
University of Queensland

Research seminar, University of St Andrews

Wednesday 31 January 2018

12.30pm – 2pm

Dr Kim Peters, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Pscyhology at University of Queensland, Australia presents a seminar entitled “How Masculine workplace standards erode women’s ambition”.

Jessica Lynn
President of Your True Gender and Advocate for Transgender Education

Jessica is the only biological parent in US history to be removed from her child’s birth certificate due to her gender transition. Her seminar will cover her transition, her sex change, and the legal and ethical aspects of gender identity, as seen through her intersectional perspective.

Wednesday 7 June 2017

2pm

Lecture Room 2, School of Management, Gateway Building