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SUMMARY:Breaking Down Leadership Stereotypes and Increasing Visibility of 
 Women Postdocs: Stepwide\, a Local Initiative - Women's Staff Network Even
 t
DTSTART:20211208T120000Z
DTEND:20211208T130000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Marta Costa and Laura Fachal\, will introduce StepWide\, a lea
 dership programme developed by postdocs for cis and trans women postdocs. 
 Current initiatives to bridge the gender gap focus on academic staff\, wit
 h little support for those trying to reach that particular career stage. S
 tepWide was designed to question and broaden current and constrained ideas
  about leadership and develop the confidence and skills that will allow wo
 men postdocs to increase their visibility\, improving promotion and progre
 ssion\n\nMarta Costa is a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Z
 oology working on creating a map of the nervous system of fruit flies. She
  did her undergraduate in Biology in Lisbon\, Portugal\, followed by an MS
 c in Neuroscience at UCL. She then moved to Cambridge for her PhD\, follow
 ed by a postdoc. She is also a Research Associate at Lucy Cavendish Colleg
 e.\n\nLaura Fachal is a Senior Staff Scientist at Wellcome Sanger Institut
 e. She earned her BS in Veterinary\, MSc in Biotechnology and PhD from Uni
 versity of Santiago de Compostela\, Spain. She completed her postdoc at th
 e Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology\, University of Cambridge. She is
  also a Research Associate at Lucy Cavendish College.\n\nBook your place "
 here":https://www.training.cam.ac.uk/equality/event/4118921
LOCATION:Zoom
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