Dr Lorraine Thomas explores how creating a culture of equality, diversity and belonging in our universities is essential

Planning for a promotion? These top ten tips will help you be successful. Read on …..

Changing career and doing at PhD at 40 can be a challenge. This blog tells you how it is.

“Quiet bullies’ gaslight human resource professionals through their skills at managing everyone, including their Human Resources partners. Read on to find out how

From accountant to best selling author - read this blog on career changing.

Stereotypes limit and shape women’s careers. How can we interrupt the biases that they create to support women’s careers and leadership?

‘Quiet bullies’ are abusive individuals who have learnt how to ‘game’ situations to a sophisticated level to protect themselves from any accusations. Read more ….

Two simple career coaching ‘rules’ that can help you take back control in the workplace.

How does walking help you reflect on your career? Meet an academic and career coach who talks of route maps and getting back up again when we fall.

Congratulations. You have been promoted. But what do you need to do to change and adapt to this new role to ensure you thrive ……

Sometimes, we all we need are few words that reach our hearts and put us back into change-maker mode.  Here are three poems that do this for me. 

There is a gender gap in self-promotion. I know you are not surprised to hear this and chances are you have experienced it yourself. Read this blog by Dr Letizia Gramaglia to find out how you can claim your expertise without sounding as if you are boasting.

Not feeling that you fit the standard ‘proper academic’ template. Read these three vignettes to know that you are not alone and that there is a need for much needed change.

Are you thinking new year, new you – you want to nail down your career plans or just up your game?  Perhaps you want to take a bit of time out for some reflection on what is really important to you. I have put together these three brilliant YouTube videos to help kick start that process.

How often do you truly listen to yourself when you make those big decisions? Learning to tune into our Inner Mentor is a really important step to understanding what our deepest hopes and needs are. Read my blog to find out how you can do this?

Surprise, surprise - research shows women are more likely than men to say “yes” to tasks at work. Among the reasons for this, beyond the need or desire for more money, are fear of being disliked, concern that bosses or colleagues will be angry, a worry that they won’t be asked to undertake a better or more appropriate task in the future, a natural desire to work collaboratively and not wanting to dump the unwanted task on someone else’s shoulders. Read more …

Saying “no” can be all very well in theory. But when caught off guard we can end up tongue tied and unable to say with confidence why the task at hand is not something we want to carry out. So, how can we say “no” while retaining the respect and support of our colleagues and bosses? Here are ten ideas. They could transform your working life!

In this guest blog, Marie Sams draws on her research into the effectiveness of women’s leadership activities to consider male and Female allyship. She highlights how both the research literature, and her own experience, find that it is still women who support other women. Read on…..

All the research tells us that women are less like to negotiate for what we need than men. There are many reasons for this but one of those is because we know that we put ourselves in jeopardy of being seen as pushy when we do not conform to stereotypical expectations. What can we do. Read on ….

We all have that Inner Critic in our heads. Indeed, it is so much a part of us that we often don’t notice its impact. What is paradoxical about the inner critic is that she actually has our best interests at heart. But she can go into over-drive - preventing us from achieving all that is possible for us. What to do? Read more …..