Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshops

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Women’s academic leadership and careers in African universities and research institutions
MIASA is committed to promote women’s scholarship with a special focus on the African continent. In collaboration with its partners, MIASA organizes an annual Female Academic Careers in Africa Coaching Workshop and a Public Roundtable.
MIASA has offered Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshops since 2018 in collaboration with the GHIP. The workshops have been organised both in Accra and Dakar. The workshop welcomes early- and mid-career female academics who are affiliated in the Social Sciences and Humanities with universities or research institutes in Africa. Workshop participants come from all over Africa.
This workshop offers time and space to discuss the challenges and opportunities for women in academia. Participants are accompanied by a coach, exploring together professional relationships in academic practice and addressing issues of team-building, university hierarchies, and leadership. The workshop invites participants to develop strategies for keeping a work-life-balance that allows for prospering in their research and academic work, and to be ready for taking up leadership positions
The Public Roundtable intends to reach out to broader audiences and allow for a conversation with experienced scholars.
For a more detailed report on the first four Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshops (2019-2021) you can follow this link: miasa.hypotheses.org/3605.
For a report in MIASA’s fifth to seventh Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshops (2022-2024) follow this link: miasa.hypotheses.org/4081.
A detailed report on the public roundtable of the seventh Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshop (2024) is accessible via this link: miasa.hypotheses.org/2900.
1st Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshop (and roundtable), Dakar, 6-7 December 2018.
2nd Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshop (and roundtable), Dakar, 13-14 November 2019.
3rd Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshop, online, 2020.
4th Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshop (and roundtable), Dakar/Accra/Bamako, 22-25 June 2021.
5th Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshop (and roundtable), Accra, 7-9 September 2022.
6th Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshop (and roundtable), Accra, 15-17 February 2023.
7th Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshop (and roundtable), Accra, 28-30 May 2024.
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