10th October 2017
8:30 | Registration and documentation delivery
9:00 | Opening ceremony
Professor Brigid Daniel
(Dean of School of Arts, Social Sciences and Management)
Professor Claire Seaman
(Co-chairwoman of the conference and Reader in Enterprise and Family Business at Queen Margaret University)
Ms. Monica Martins
(Managing Director of the WomenBeing Project)
9:20 | Opening keynote
‘Who broke feminism? The obligation of privilege’
Emma Rees
University of Chester and Director of the Institute of Gender Studies
10:20-11:20 | Session I.I
President Trump’s War on Women.
Judy A. Hayden
University of Tampa, United States of America
Are Women persons?
Amalia Verdu
University of Turku, Finland
Invisible Women: A Case Study of Posters in the Workplace.
Madison Winter Kurchik
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
30 minutes Q&A/Discussion
11:20-11:50 | Coffee-break
Posters presentation.
Showing of non-present works.
11:50-13:00 | Session I.II
Indian State and the Empowerment of Women.
Kumaresh Prasad Singh
B.N. Mandal University, India
Quechua Indigenous women and the national family planning service in Peru: Working towards greater equality or not?
Rebecca Irons
University College London, United Kingdom
Writing Lebanese Women into History: Masculinity. Femininity and the Civil War.
Francesca El Asmar
Oxfam, Lebanon
The challenge of integrating gender analysis in gender non-related research: The experience of an interdisciplinary project on multimedia cultural heritage.
Federica Bressan
Ghent University, Belgium
30 minutes Q&A/Discussion
13:00-13:30 | Lunch
13:30-14:00 | Keynote talk
Migrant Women in Europe: Finding Political Voice through Radical Sisterhood.
Anna Zobnina
European Migrant of Migrant Women
14:00-15:20 | Session I.III
Islamic Feminism in India: A tale of tryst with conflicting identities.
Qazi Sarah Rasheed
Indian Institute of Technology, India
From an idea to an humanitarian association. Volunteer women profile in the refugees crisis.
Ana Jose
Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portugal
Use of collaborative inter-sectorial approach in increasing enrolment and retention rate of girls in basic education: Niger state as a case study.
Wakil Asekun
Lagos State Polytechnic, Nigeria
Half the Sky: Indian Women Struggling to Break the Glass Ceiling.
Ashini Patel
Indian Institute of Management, India
Women and Gender Equity.
Ranjeet Nath
Institute of International Education, India
30 minutes Q&A/Discussion
15:20-15:40 | Coffee-break. Posters session.
15:40-16:10 | Keynote talk
WomenBeingWork: How women out of work, on fringes of work, in low paid or insecure work can gain control of their working lives.
Jane Mansour
Independent Consultant, United Kingdom
16:10-18:00 | Session I.IV
Acceptance and career success – How will I know as a female executive that I am accepted?
Caprice Weissenrieder
Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Women in Senior Management in Malaysia.
Ajlaa Mokhtar
UWE Bristol, United Kingdom
Finnish work-life and right to breastfeeding breaks.
Marika Kytölä
University of Turku, Finland
Female Professionals’ Experiences whilst Accessing and Undergoing Fertility. Treatment: Voice and (In)Visibility in the Workplace.
Lisa Buchanan, Kathryn Thory
University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Life Patterns of Female and Male Executives.
Regine Graml
Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
The Impact of CEDAW on the Labour Laws of Jordan and the UAE: A Comparative Study with English Law.
Firas Kasassbeh
United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates
How can I improve my practice? A journey into my personal and professional growth as a development worker engaged with gender inequalities in Ethiopia.
Arianna Briganti
University of Cumbria, United Kingdom
Expatriate Academic Mothers in the United Arab Emirates: Helped or Hindered by their location?
Martina Dickson
Emirates College for Advanced Education, United Arab Emirates
Labour rights. Female construction workers in Cambodia
Vichuta LY
Legal Support for Children and Women (LSCW), Cambodia
30 minutes Q&A/Discussion
11th October 2017
9:00 | Registration
9:30-10:40 | Session II.I
Strengthening the Scottish Economy through the power of Women’s Enterprise.
Anne Meikle, Carolyn Currie
Women’s Enterprise Scotland, United Kingdom
Gender Pay Gap – Seeking Dialogue
Iti Tyagi
Crisil Ltd., India
Collision of Diversity and Finance in Business
Emily Witko
Saint Louis University, United States
Understanding Work-Life Balance
Ashini Patel
Indian Institute of Management, India
30 minutes Q&A/Discussion
10:40-11:10 | Coffee-break
Posters presentation.
Showing of non-present works.
11:10-12:00 | A Short Film Screening and Conversation
‘Grace Under Fire’
Skye Saunders
Australian National University, Australia
12:00-13:00 | Session II.II
A Study on the Development of Women Professional Farmers in Shaanxi. China
Mei Yang, Allan Rae, Martin Young, Huiyan Zhao
Massey University, New Zealand and Northwest A&F University, China
“Camp Wives”: Working Class Women in Northwestern Canada.
Karla J. Bloomfield
University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Fake news? Sexual harassment and attacks as causes of failure in midwife retention in rural Cambodia.
Kimiko Abe
Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Leaving an abusive relationship: a dual perspective.
Daniela Di Basilio
Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
30 minutes Q&A/Discussion
13:00-13:30 | Lunch
13:30-14:40 | Session II.III
Exploring and understanding the roles of social institutions contributing towards honour killings in Pakistan.
Sadia Huda, Anila Kamal
Quaid i Azam University, Pakistan
Implementing the International Elements of Rape into Indonesian National Law: Challenges and Avenues.
Ibrahim Hanif, Thara K. Wahab
Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Policing Rape Complaints: When Reporting Rape Becomes a Crime
Lisa Avalos
University of Arkansas School of Law, United States of America
“Listen” Women’s Experiences of Substance Use, Domestic Abuse and Support.
Sarah Fox
Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
30 minutes Q&A/Discussion
14:40-15:10 | Keynote talk
Equally flawless: The beauty of diversity and equal representation of women in the fashion, media, and creative industry.
Tina Antwi
United Kingdom
15:10-16:40 | Session II.IV
Mexican Street Art as an Instrument of Social Fight and Political Protest.
Karolina Maria Rojek
University of Wroclaw, Poland
Turning the Lens Around: A Study of Tomoyo Daidouji, The Cardcaptor’s Best Friend.
Ilisha Mehta
Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, India
Empowering Women through Creative Writing.
Lorna Hill
Stirling University, United Kingdom
Lesbian cinematic representation evolution Since the
1930’s–Today.
Maya Schwartz Laufer
Ginsburg Haoren High School, Israel
“The very vilest cinema things”: Gender, vulnerability, representation and feminism enigma.
Priyanka Verma
University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Investigating the Detectives: The Study of Human Nature Presented by Different Genders in Agatha Christie’s Novels.
Sistiadinita Satria, Andrew Gordon
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
30 minutes Q&A/Discussion
16:40-17:00 | Coffee-break. Posters session.
17:00-17:30 | Keynote talk
Ingrained gender bias in academia: How I realised I needed female role models.
Sonali Mohapatra
University of Sussex, United Kingdom
17:30-18:40 | Session II.V
Who needs feminism? The interplay between postmaterialism and degrees of feminist values.
Tatjana Jungkunz, Sebastian Jungkunz
Otto-Friedrich- Universität Bamberg, Germany
Does the Sheen of Motherhood leave behind every other success in a woman’s life?
Priyam Singh
Galgotias University, India
Information and Inspiration: building routes to empowerment for autistic women & girls.
C. Stewart, C. Tait
Scottish Autism, United Kingdom
Twice vulnerable: The socio-economic position of women and girls with disabilities in relation to their peers.
Yvette Basson
University of the Western Cape, South Africa
30 minutes Q&A/Discussion
18:40-19:00 | Closing session and kick-off of WomenBeing Conference 2018.
Posters presentations
The posters will be exhibited during both days of the conference.
Women and body ‘dis-ability’ in Brazilian football.
Luciane Lauffer
Macquarie University, Australia
A study on the relationships among workplace stress, personal resource and occupational behavior: The gender differences.
Tzu-Ling Lai
Ming Chuan University, Taiwa
Gender Mainstreaming in Higher Education: Support for Women Researchers and Academics in Developing Countries.
Sangita Shrestha
INASP, United Kingdom
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Non present talks
The Changing Profile of Darlong Women in Tripura: A Sociological Study.
H. Theresa Darlong
Women’s College, India
Women in the war: Orientalist discourse.
Nigiar Isgandarova
Sumgayit State University, Azerbaijan
Reversal of the role of the sexes in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Zahra Sheikhi Shahidzadeh
Persian Gulf University of Boushehr, Iran
Curse of Migration: the left wives of Bihari migrants.
Pragya Singh
Hyderabad Central University, India
Women Victims still waiting for the Justice to be done.
Chandiwari Mallawa Arachchi
Attorney-at-Law, LLM (UK), LLB (Colombo), Sri Lanka
The depolitization of feminism through popular management literature.
Maria Medina-Vicent
University Jaume I, Spain
Political reservations for women in India: An Anthropological analysis of women’s empowerment through Political participation.
T Balasubrahmanyam
Independent Researcher, India