An interesting forthcoming two-hour workshop and exhibition for students

Find out how simple, everyday objects have the power to change people’s perceptions and ideas!

Tell stories about gender identity, gender fluidity and challenge gender stereotypes through objects while learning how objects can transform a viewer’s perception, emotions and logic.

Join Diana Georgiou, one of the co-curator’s of the forthcoming Transitional States: Hormones at the Crossroads of Art and Science, as she leads this workshop where you will learn how to create displays to feature in art exhibitions.

Bring along your own items that express how you feel about gender and sexuality, fluidity and gender stereotypes, or just take part.

Participants’ creations will feature alongside the exhibition at Project Space Plus at the University of Lincoln throughout February 2018.

• Date: Thursday 30 November
• Time: 5-7pm
• Venue: MC3204

Interested in taking part? Email cunsworth@lincoln.ac.uk

Transitional States: Hormones at the Crossroads of Art and Science, a video art exhibition that sees international artists explore how hormone use has affected sexuality, gender identity and fluidity.

www.transitionalstates.com

As many of you will be aware, the School of Life Sciences was awarded the Athena SWAN Bronze award in September 2016. This is an ongoing process in which we would like to achieve a Silver (and eventually Gold award). To achieve these goals we need to find out how staff and PGR students feel about various practices and policies that are in place and the overall culture of the School.

As such, we would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to complete the SLS Staff Culture survey. All responses are anonymous, so please do feel free to answer honestly and to provide any comments at the end of the survey that you feel are relevant.

We will use the results of this survey to help us to build our Action Plan for change, so it is vital that we get responses from as many staff as possible, across all parts of the School – including postgraduate research students, post-docs, technical support, admin staff and academics.

The survey is available here:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SLSCulture

The survey is now open until the 31^st March.

If you have any questions or comments relating to the survey, please contact Sheena Cotter (scotter@lincoln.ac.uk ).

The School will be holding an International Women’s Day activities event and celebrating different career paths for women in Science.There will be a series of interesting and influential talks from External and Internal speakers that will run from 10am – 1:30pm today.

Please see attached SLS-InternationalWomensDay-Programme for the day’s schedules.

The School of Life Sciences has joined the elite group of Departments holding the Athena SWAN bronze level award in recognition of the School’s commitment to and achievements in advancing career progression of academics, professional and support staff, as well as students and that equality and diversity issues are understood, visible and prioritised in higher education (HE) and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM).

Thank you to everyone in the School for their contributions toward this achievement, especially those on the Athena SWAN committee for their work in putting the bid together.

On Friday the 5th of February, the University hosted a talk by Dr Rhonda Snook, Chair of the Athena SWAN Committee from the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield. Dr Snook talked about the success story of improving gender equality in her department, leading to a Silver award recognition by the Athena SWAN. It was a fantastic opportunity to gather ideas for initiatives we could run in support of our own award, and also get a unique glimpse of ‘behind the scenes’ activities that were instrumental to enable her departments success. A truly inspirational talk by an inspirational academic.