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The European Communication Research Association (ECREA) women's network seminar "Me, my academy and my family“ takes place in Tallinn University (Mare building, room M648), 5-6 December.

The seminar disserts the issue of combining academic work and family life. The basis of the topic is an issue brought up in EU: Why women's careers often come to a halt after getting their doctoral degree, and why all the resources invested in women get lost for the academic world. Despite the fact that higher education is feminised, the academic life is still built on the notion that the lecturer or researcher is a single person without a family (or a man undisturbed by family duties). The seminar discusses what the university and educational officials could do to utilise women's potential in research and higher education by adapting the structure of academic life to their needs.

The seminar is organised by Tallinn University .

Conference Programme:

Thursday 5.12.

14.00 Introduction. ECREA Women´s Network Chairman Teija Waaramaa, Ph.D, Postdoctoral Researcher, Tampere University, Institute of Communication, Media and Theatre

14.15 Participants´ introduction, statement of interests.

14.45 Brief mapping of the gender equality situation in Estonian academy: where are problems at our feminized academic world. ECREA Women´s Network Vice-Chairman Barbi Pilvre, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Tallinn University, Institute of Communication

15.00-16.30 KEYNOTE: Equal opportunities in Estonia and Estonian academy. Gender equality and equal treatment commissioner of Estonia Mari-Liis Sepper.

16.30-17.30 WORKSHOP Group discussions of participant´s stories „Me, my academy and my family“.

19.00 Optional 

Friday 6.12 

10.00-12.00 Conclusions and further actions.