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Target Audience: Faculty of Science Staff

The presentation is open to all staff across all job families and all grades.  It is not just open to women as the advice given is equally useful to early career staff too.

Women in academia earn less, are less likely to be published, cited, funded or promoted compared with male colleagues. Drawing on the evidence, theory and the experience of 25 international scholars (female and male) from a wide range of disciplines as well as her 30-year academic career, Professor Watson looks at the behaviours and activities that contribute to success in academia. She will summarise evidence on gender asymmetry in academia, and focus on the importance of having a “support crew” of supportive individuals e.g. coaches, mentors, role-models, networks and networking (relationship developing), proactivity and career mobility.

Organised and supported by the Faculty of Science Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee

Professor Margaret (Mags) Watson PhD MSc BSc (Hons) FRPharmS

Mags is a health services researcher and registered pharmacist. Her academic career spans over 30 years and has focussed upon the safe and effective use of medicines and effective professional practice.  Her research includes the synthesis of evidence and its implementation to influence policy, education and practice, to generate low-cost, high-impact outcomes. She is the recipient of Fellowships from the Medical Research Council, Leverhulme Foundation and Health Foundation.  Mags has served on a range of national research funding committees, has over 100 peer reviewed publications and is a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.  In 2018, she established her own consultancy business, Watson Research and Training Limited (https://watsonresearchandtraining.co.uk/), through which she delivers research-related training, particularly to early career researchers, provides consultancy on the development and delivery of research initiatives, as well as providing certified coaching and mentoring support. 

She is also Professor of Health Services Research and Pharmacy Practice in the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/watsonmargaretprofessor/). 

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