Gender and Interdisciplinarity Workshop with Lucía Berro Pizzarossa

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IGI Gender Equality

Part of the IGI's How to Do Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) workshop series, exploring gender equality IDR funding and methods

Hills Building, Room 120

T﻿he <a href="https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/global-goals/igi/index.aspx" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Institute of Global Innovations</a> offers training for researchers to develop their knowledge and skills on how to effectively carry out interdisciplinary research. This workshop forms part of the 'How to do Interdisciplinary Research' workshops series and also features speakers with extensive experience of interdisciplinary projects and approaches to Gender Equality research and is hosted by the IGI's <a href="https://www.genderequalityresearch.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Gender Equality theme</a> and <a href="https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/artslaw/law.aspx" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Birmingham Law School</a>. Our speakers will include:<ul><li><a href="https://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/experts/lucia-berro-pizzarossa/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">D﻿r Lucia Berro Pizzarossa</a> - Lucia is an Associate at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and has extensive experience in interdisciplinary research and securing funding for IDR. She currently works between law, policy making and women’s health. </li></ul><ul><li><a href="https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/metabolism-systems/Thangaratinam-Shakila.aspx" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">P﻿rof Shakila Thangaratinam</a><a href="https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/metabolism-systems/thangaratinam-shakila.aspx" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a> - Shakila is Dame Hilda Lloyd Chair of Maternal and Perinatal Health, the co-Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Women’s Health and academic lead for Women’s Health in Birmingham Health Partners. As Consultant Obstetrician she is involved in the care of high-risk mothers at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. Shakila recently established the Dame Hilda Lloyd Network, which brings together medical and midwifery students and trainees, school students, and senior clinical academics involved in Women’s Health Research in the West Midlands. Alongside this she has established a The Hildas, a patient and public involvement group. Prof Thangaratinam’s work focuses on prediction, prevention and treatment of complications in mothers with pre-eclampsia, epilepsy, diabetes, and obesity. </li></ul><ul><li><a href="https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/applied-health/jackson-louise.aspx" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">D﻿r Louise Jackson</a> - Louise is a Senior Lecturer within the Institute of Applied Health Research. Louise has broad range of methodological experience and expertise. She is interested in applied research that improves health and care services, especially for young people and women. Louise has specific expertise in relation to: economic evaluation; outcome and cost measurement; preference elicitation; and qualitative evidence synthesis and reporting. She works closely with stakeholders and is interested in mixed methods research that aims to meet the needs of decision-makers, particularly in public health.</li></ul><ul><li><a href="https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/law/enright-mairead.aspx" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">P﻿rof Máiréad Enright</a> - Máiréad's research is in feminist legal studies and critical legal theory, with a particular focus on law and religion. She has written on issues including reproductive justice, law reform and grassroots organising, illegality in social movements, responses to historical injustice and obstetric violence. She often works with and advises groups campaigning around reproductive rights and historical gender-based violence, especially in Ireland and Northern Ireland. She is also interested in collaborations between artists and legal scholars. </li></ul>T﻿he event is hosted by:<ul><li><a href="https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/birmingham-2022/batonbearers/fiona-de-londras.aspx" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Prof Fiona de Londras</a> - Fiona is Professor of Global Legal Studies at Birmingham Law School. her research concerns constitutionalism, human rights, and transnationalism. She is particularly interested in the role and function of rights in contentious policy fields, inquiring into how (if at all) rights shape the making of law and policy in complex contexts of, for example, counter-terrorism, reproductive rights, government and parliamentary responses to COVID-19, and the implementation of international legal standards.</li></ul>D﻿raft Agenda:<ul><li>11:00 - Introduction and interdisciplinary research funding and support at UoB with Prof Fiona de Londras</li><li>11:10 - Dr Lucia Berro Pizzarossa</li><li>11:25 - Dr Louise Jackson</li><li>11:40 - Prof Shakila Thangaratinam </li><li>11.55 - Prof Mairead Enright</li><li>12:10 - Group discussion, Q&A </li><li>12:30 - Networking lunch</li><li>13:30 - event ends</li></ul>Note: The Birmingham Law School 'Work in Progress' seminar will take place after this event and will feature the work of Dr Lucia Berro Pizzarossa. All attendees at this workshop are welcome to join the seminar.This meeting will take place in person at the Hills building (near Birmingham Law School) see campus map for directions: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/contact/directions/index.aspxPlease send any questions or queries to Leah Fitzsimmons l.fitzsimmons@bham.ac.uk

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