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Maynooth University Department of Sociology
ToggleSolidarity and Struggle: Affirming Equality, Civil Society and Democracy
Join a range of civil society, non-government organisations and community groups to reflect on current threats to democracy and equality and discuss strategies to move on.
When: Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Continuity or change in gendered processes in Higher Education?
An academic insider, Pat O’Connor will talk about her experiences over a 46-year career in five academic organisations in Ireland and the UK: moving from contract research assistant to full professor and Dean. Reading extracts from her memoir: ‘A ‘proper’ woman?’ she will describe the subtle and relentless processes of devaluation, marginalisation and disempowerment that are often ‘normalised’ in academia.
When: Tuesday, 17 September 2024