Women's Only Wheelchair Basketball Session for International Women's Day
In celebration of International Women's Day, UoN Sport are organising a special women's only wheelchair basketball session. This session is open to all women staff and students at the university, and we would be honoured to have your presence. It's a fantastic opportunity to engage in a fun and inclusive sporting activity, promoting teamwork, camaraderie, and celebrating the strength and diversity of women. 
No prior experience in wheelchair basketball is required, and all equipment will be provided. We encourage you to join us for an empowering and enjoyable experience.

No booking required, but if you have any questions, please email Dayo Dada.

Empower Week 
Empower is a new targeted initiative aiming to tackle barriers facing women, trans and non-binary identifying students to exercise, including fear and lack of confidence in abilities. Empower Week will be running w/c 4th March with activity taking place all week - to celebrate International Women's Day and this funding will help to fund places on our Just Play programme for women, trans and non-binary students without a sports membership, along with spaces on other planned activities to make the sport more accessible from a cost perspective. 

IWD Celebration at KMC 
Following on from the success of last year’s IWD event hosted by DTS at KMC, we will celebrating IWD again this year. Join us in the Wellbeing Room at KMC where we are having a display from Manuscripts (feminist activists at Lakeside), badges from the 70s and 80s, a speaker from UoN's Women’s Network, banners/padlets, cupcakes and tea/coffee.  

Come along to the “Empowering Women is Empowering women in STEM” project for four fun activities. Firstly, we will celebrate the work of the 5 female physicists who won the Noble prize in Physics, by summarizing their life, education, struggles, and influential work on A3 posters that will be displayed in visible areas and the foyer of the Physics Building.  Second, we will also run a support event/day by wearing Purple. Third, 3 academic females will share their story of how they got to where they are.  Approximately 10-15 minutes each and a Q&A after all three have spoken. After the speaking, everyone will be welcome to join for a hot beverage/soft drink.  Finally, we will run Finger Painting – Individual thumb prints in purple onto a canvas with a purple ribbon. 

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For International Women's Day our Hindu chaplain, Sabrina Bhundoo, has organised a talk on inspiring women in Vedic culture and the role of women in Vedic culture, exploring how we can apply this to modern times. Includes a try on saree workshop. Light refreshments provided. 

GLoW: Illuminating Innovation
Creative industry experts from UoN and King’s College London have come together for International Women’s Day to showcase a unique and groundbreaking digital art exhibition.  Curated by King’s College London Professor of Screen Media, Sarah Atkinson, the exhibition presents first of their kind historical works, new digital art commissions and a programme of interactive augmented and virtual reality experiences, to illuminate and inspire visitors' minds and senses.
GLOW celebrates many historically significant pieces, including the first ever virtual reality documentary Hunger in LA (2012) by Nonny de la Peña - ‘Godmother of VR’ - and the first experimentations with virtual and augmented reality eyewear.

This event celebrates the research and careers of women, whilst also connecting women across STEM fields to foster a supportive and inclusive environment. This one-day event will consist of talks from academics and industrial speakers, covering a wide range of backgrounds/experiences. There will also be a variety of industrial stands, run by speakers as well as additional local industries, to promote further discussion and to open conversations about future career opportunities.  Lunch and refreshments will be provided throughout the day and following the event. 

In conversation with “Academic Barbies” 
Inspired by the Barbie movie, we are hosting an ‘in-conservation’ event with real-life ‘academic barbies’ in Geography, spanning the natural and social sciences, diverse backgrounds, career stages, and open to all. We will explore the diverse identities and lived experiences of the so-called ‘academic barbie’ – through the successes, the challenges and the stereotypes. The in-conversation approach will encourage the audience to ask questions, either in-person or via an online live padlet, wherein the audience can react and upvote certain questions and share their stories. We will springboard off key quotes from the movie – including the infamous ‘it’s impossible to be a woman’ speech – to draw parallels and reflect on the advances and remaining distance between Barbieland and the Academy.

Belonging: Inspiring inclusivity 
We are hosting a panel of female business leaders and allies to share their experiences with Nottingham Business School students and staff, answering questions they may have regarding their own leadership journey and how we can all become more inclusive allies. We want this event to show strong female leaders with their allies and how we can create inclusive places to make this happen with strong allies. As a Business School we need to be supporting the journey of the university's future leaders.  We want to provide some resources for participants to take away to help develop their personal growth and extend the impact of the conversations held. This is a joint venture between students and staff as this impacts us all. 

Celebrating working class women in leadership 
Celebrating working class women in leadership is a powerful and important initiative that recognises the diverse contributions and talents of women from various backgrounds. Our event invites all job family staff and students within the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences to learn more about working class women in leadership. We will be inviting staff within the four schools in the faculty to self-identify through a monitored form where they can opt in to share their experience as part of the event. Alongside the Health E-learning and Media Team (HELM) we will be recording the event, producing in this way good quality material for sharing with our audience and those who may not be able to attend.   

Wild Women Workshops 
In-person session
This workshop is an invitation for authentic expression of what it means to you to be a ‘wild woman’. The space is open to anyone interested in exploring our human potential and connection to other, perhaps, older ways of being in the world. You will be invited to connect to your feelings in the present and to your body to explore the likely familiar concepts through creative experiencing. This potentially might lead to new learning about yourself and others and facilitate a deeper sense of connection that can be difficult to make room for, in the often pressured, and goal orientated academic environments.  

Wild Women Workshops 
Online session
This workshop is an invitation for authentic expression of what it means to you to be a ‘wild woman’. The space is open to anyone interested in exploring our human potential and connection to other, perhaps, older ways of being in the world. You will be invited to connect to your feelings in the present and to your body to explore the likely familiar concepts through creative experiencing. This potentially might lead to new learning about yourself and others and facilitate a deeper sense of connection that can be difficult to make room for, in the often pressured, and goal orientated academic environments.  

Black women power: celebrating Nigerian changemakers 
The event features our guest presenter, Abíọ́dún 'Abbey' Abdul who is a Yoruba-Nigerian writer, poet and lecturer to share knowledge about successful Nigerian women and to ask participants to reflect on their own knowledge gaps and lessons that can be learnt and applied to education and wider society. You'll also get to participate in a fun quiz and an interactive session about change making women. 

The gender data gap refers to how everything from speech recognition software to medical tests have been designed on and for men. The gender data gap shapes our everyday lives, how we experience ourselves, our bodies, relationships and our place in the world.  Women are shown to be interrupted between 2 and 6 times more often than men.  This extends to women self-interrupting, which in psychotherapeutic models might be thought of as a stuck process that limits our capacity to flourish.  This workshop is an opportunity to explore how this embodied gender gap might be made visible and available for transformation.  This workshop is inclusive and will explore how this gendered 'gap' intersects with race, ableism, heteronormativity and the experiences of trans men and women. The session is 90 minutes and will be co-facilitated by at least two Assistant Professors of Counselling.  

The menstruation café is a chance to have an informal chat about the highs and lows of life with or without periods and chat about menstrual products.  The cafe is informal – there is no pre-set agenda and the topics are chosen by participants on the day.  Please feel free to bring along your lunch! We look forward to seeing you! 

Handbag/toiletries donation 
Fill your handbags with toiletries and leave your bags at one of our drop-off points on or before 29 March 2024.  Separate donations welcome. All donations go to  local charities, including Nottingham Women’s Centre.