We are excited to announce the next Women’s Committee Workshop. This year, the Workshop ‘Women and Health: Everyday life and work’ will be held at the University of Glasgow on 7 December.
Registration has now closed.
Location: Wolfson Medical School, University Avenue, G12 8QQ – Room 253 (Yudowitz)
Programme:
10:30 – 11:00– Registration and tea/coffee in the atrium of the Wolfson Medical School
11:00 – 11:10 – Introduction and welcome
11:15 – 12:45 – Session 1: Women and Health: everyday work
- Amy Close – Critically Investigating the Influence of Organisational Culture on the
Working Lives of Perimenopausal Women in Scotland Within the Education Sector
- Beatrice Moring – Women, work, health and the female industrial inspector
- Jacqueline Jenkinson – On the Record: Charting the Humanitarian Work of Two
Women Care Givers in Support of Scotland’s First World War Belgian Refugees
12:45 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 – Session 2: Women and Health: everyday life
- Frances Galt – ‘Should Trade Unionists Support Abortion?’: Trade Union Campaigns
around Women’s Reproductive Rights and Health in the British Film and Television
Industries, 1960-91
- Maria Izzo – Navigating Health Challenges: The Impact of Migration and Care Work
on Ukrainian Eldercare Workers in Italy
- Mafalda Moura Pereira – Leading causes of workplace fatalities among women in
Coimbra, Portugal, 1886-1910
3:30 –4:00 – Tea/coffee break/Networking
4:00 End of workshop – Drinks at a local pub
6:00 Dinner (pay your own way and book in advance with Catherine)
Location TBC
