In this post Jyothsna Belliappa considers why conference organisers might experiment with conference meals to enhance inclusive community building.
This post reflects on how conferences, and events more generally, can be planned to ensure and promote diversity of attendance and inclusivity of participation.
In this post Angela Bos, Jennie Sweet-Cushman and Monica Schneider introduce their recent paper: Family-friendly academic conferences: a missing link to fix the “leaky pipeline”?
Conference Inference co-editor Emily Henderson presents the outputs from her ‘In Two Places at Once’ study on conferences and care.
In this post the editors of Conference Inference (Emily Henderson and James Burford) consider institutional responses to support academic-carers’ conference attendance.
In this post Genine Hook analyses the conditions of account for sole parent postgraduate students attending academic conferences. While conferences can offer valuable opportunities for networking and advancing careers, Hook reminds us that making them almost compulsory can have exclusionary effects for students who are also full-time parents.
In this post Ali Black describes her longing for connections with other academics that are based on care and conversation. Grounding her desire within her own story of academic becoming, Ali then outlines her own initiative to create an alternative type of academic gathering.
In this post Briony Lipton writes about travelling to conferences with a baby on her hip. She also reflects on her recent publication of a research poem called ‘Conference Baby’ in the journal Qualitative Inquiry.
Emily Henderson writes on fulfilling her dream of convening a symposium on conferences research at the Society for Research into Higher Education annual conference
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Lizzie Deeble writes about her first experience at a conference, where she found she was attending as a parent, a carer, and an individual in her own right.
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