Who Cares?
The (in)visibility of caring responsibilities and working in Geography

9.30 Registration and Coffee

10.00 Welcome from the Head of School, Heather Viles

10.10 Keynote address: Parvati Raghuram, Professor of Geography and Migration, Open University, Chair: Gillian Rose

11.15 Tea/Coffee

11.45 Paper Session Chair: Jennie Middleton

Balancing work-life in academia - the power of time - Vandana Desai (Royal Holloway) and Sally Lloyd-Evans (Reading)

Juggling motherhood and fieldwork: Competing demands, emotion work and gendered expectations - Katy Jenkins (Northumbria)

Caring-at-scale: The visibility and invisibility of a sandwich of caring responsibilities - Natalie Ross (Manchester)

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Parallel roundtable discussions:

Caring in the Field

Caring responsibilities and conferences

Athena SWAN - critical reflections and future directions

15.00 Feedback from roundtables

15.30 Tea/Coffee

16.00 Closing remarks from discussant, Marie-Pierre Moreau 

17.00 Drinks reception