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We are delighted to formally launch SRHE's newest network, HEC19: Higher Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic (click here to view the network page).

The COVID-19 pandemic had and continues to have, a significant impact on the global higher education sector. The implications of emergency lockdowns, the pivot to online teaching and learning, changes to working practices and the impact on student and staff wellbeing extend into multiple areas of higher education practice and research, as do equality considerations.

Given the specific context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this life-limited (two-year) Network aims to provide dedicated space for issues and research around COVID-19 which would support existing networks and areas of activity for the Society. The purpose of the network is to bring together researchers and practitioners from a range of theoretical, disciplinary and national backgrounds who are engaged in critical studies of the experience, impact and longer-term implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global higher education sector. The network’s remit will include multiple phases of the COVID-19 pandemic: from early 2020 to the present day – and beyond.

During this launch event, network co-convenors Dr Kate Carruthers Thomas (Birmingham City University) and Dr Charikleia Charoula Tzanakou (Oxford Brookes University) will present the rationale and aims of the network, outline the planned programme of activity, and let you know how to get involved and stay in touch. We will also hear about our co-convenors' existing research and projects which relates to the planned work of this network. 

 

Network Convenor bionotes

Kate is a Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham City University specialising in contemporary higher education, gender and creative methods. She is a long-standing member of SRHE and previously co-convened the Widening Participation Network with Professor Jacqueline Stevenson and Annette Hayton. She has acted as Lead Assessor, Reviewer and Mentor for SRHE Conference, Scoping and Research Awards and as a presenter, co-presenter and facilitator of SRHE seminars and conference events, including THIRDSPACE, an online academic writing community for female academics in 2021. Kate has a great deal of experience in convening events, including the BCU xCHANGE Festival for International Women’s Day (2018-2022). Her most recent research, funded by a SRHE Research Award (2020): Dear Diary: Equality implications for female academics of changes to working practices in lockdown and beyond investigated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the working practices, career progression and wellbeing of female academics in UK higher education institutions.

Charoula is a Senior Lecturer in HRM (with a focus on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion), teaching along with working on national and European research projects on gender equality and diversity issues in organisations and society, transitions from education to employment and academic (im)mobilities. The overarching theme of her research rests upon inequalities in higher education and social justice with a particular focus on gender (in)equalities, mobility and transitions from education to employment (including transitions from doctoral training to academic careers and beyond). Charoula is currently the PI (UK team) on an EU H2020-funded project with direct relevance to the proposed work of the HEC19 network: RESISTIRE (2021-2023), a study on the impact of COVID-19 on socio-economic and health inequalities – further details can be found at: https://resistire-project.eu. She is also the Co-Director for the Centre for Diversity Policy Research and Practice at Oxford Brookes University, and an advisory board member of the Academic Im/Mobilites International Network.

 

When
April 24th, 2023 from 12:00 PM to  1:30 PM
Location
Online event - link will be provided
United Kingdom
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