Women's Networks in Academia: Practical Advice for Positive Impact

Women@TUoS have written a guide that provides practical tips and recommendations on how to set up and maintain a vibrant, strategically relevant women’s network in academia. Using our experience at the University of Sheffield, the guide provides information on getting grass roots support to understand what members want from a network, features critical success factors that contribute to maintaining investment and interest in a network, presents a catalogue of development ideas from our own network and good practice from elsewhere, and embeds this with other gender initiatives at the University. The guide provides practical tips and recommendations on how to set up and maintain a vibrant, strategically relevant women's network in academia. The guide provides information on getting grass roots support to understand what members want from a network, features critical success factors that contribute to maintaining investment and interest in a network, presents a catalogue of development ideas from our own network and good practice from elsewhere.