Advance HE Teaching & Learning Conference 2018: Gender equity in the academy

As universities play a unique role as generators of new knowledge and social formations gender equity ought to be a central concern of universities. Indeed as ‘you have to see it to be it’ universities have a mandate to support female students to envision themselves in leadership roles in the organisations into which they will enter as graduands. This session will demonstrate how activating for gender equity at universities has a significant influence and more specifically consider what academics and academies can do to enact their civic and community responsibility to developing fair and just citizenship and models of organisation.