GEN End-of-Year Updates

Posted on December 31, 2015 Updated on January 5, 2016

Pleasant season’s greetings from all of us at GEN!

Below are a number of updates we wish to share regarding events for next year and some recent publications and initiatives in which you may be interested.

• New Book: Women, Business and the Law 2016: Getting to Equal
• Women’s Enterprise Scotland Launches World’s First Digital Gender Balance Certification Programme
• International Placement Scheme (IPS) is offering funded research fellowships at world-leading international research institutions for early career researchers, doctoral-level research assistants and AHRC/ESRC*-funded doctoral students.
• Prof Simon Down speaking on entrepreneurial masculinities on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed (based on this paper, co-authored with Andreas Giazitzoglu, in the ISBJ)

2016 Upcoming Events

• March 1: Westminster Forum seminar on women in the tech sector: access, skills development and policy priorities
• March 2: GEN seminar,’Gender and Class at Work’, co-sponsored by Dr Maria Villares and University of Birmingham Centre for Research on Ethnic Minority Enterprise (CREME). Guest Speaker: Prof Harriet Bradley.
• June 28-July 1: 9th Biennial Gender, Work and Organisation Conference at University of Keele.
• July 11-15: GEN Confreat #2 – Leeds University. Summary of 2015 Confreat here.
• October: ISBE Conference, Paris

Follow us on Twitter @ISBEGEN for more detailed information closer to these dates.

Wishing you and yours a happy new year and all the best for 2016!