MIASA 2022 Female Academic Career Workshop

Published: 25 Jul 2022

The workshop offers time and space to discuss the challenges and opportunities for women in academia in African contexts. Participants from Ghana and other African countries will be accompanied by a professional coach through different modules that address the issues of how to build up efficient teams, how to deal with university hierarchies, how to address conflicts at the workplace, and how to proceed an academic career with multiple time constraints. The workshop explores professional relationships in academic practice.

The coaching aims at assisting participants to define their own working and leadership style, but also to consider how to adapt oneself to different contexts and challenges. The overarching purpose is to encourage early- and mid-career female academics in Ghana and other African countries to further build up their careers, to develop strategies for keeping a work-life-balance that allows for prospering in one’s research and academic work, and to become ready for taking up leadership positions and/or seizing other professional opportunities.

MIASA Female Academic Career Workshop

Benefits of MIASA Female Academic Career Workshop

• MIASA covers travel costs for participants (economy class flight, only mandatory covid-19 tests, local transport, accommodation).

Requirements for MIASA Female Academic Career Workshop

• Open to early- and mid-career female academics who are affiliated in the Social Sciences and Humanities with universities or research institutes in Africa.
• Applicants should have a PhD.
• They are open to a broad range of disciplines and appreciate, in particular, applicants who work on one or more of MIASA’s main research themes

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