The School of Health Sciences is hosting a workshop on 'Women and Wikipedia' as part of the Faculty's International Women's Day celebrations.
Come and join us for a couple of hours of fun with nominees for a Women’s Northern Power Award to hear about #ImprovingWikiDiversity followed by lunch and networking session in Roscoe 3.2.
Mary Tully FFRPS FRPharmS, is a Reader in Pharmacy Practice in the SHS. From August 2016-July 2018 she was Director of Public Engagement for Connected Health Cities and co-lead for Public Engagement for HeRC.
Carol Ann Whitehead, a Royal Society of Arts Fellow and award-winning magazine publisher, and a head of The Zebra Partnership.
Programme:
12:00-12:30pm Mary Tully speaking about CHI Public Engagement Team nominated for the Women’s Northern Power Award
12:45-1:30pm Carol Ann speaking about #ImprovingWikiDiversity nominated for the Women’s Northern Power Award
1:30-2:00pm Networking over lunch
Open to all!
Please sign up via Eventbrite: http://bit.ly/IWD-SHS
Lunch is provided. Please email any dietary requirements or other enquiries to srbmh@manchester.ac.uk.
More about Carol Ann:
Carol Ann is an advocate for equality and diversity. She is co-founder of the Ada Lovelace Day Zebra Wikieditathon, which aims to increase women’s global presence on Wikipedia from 17% and contributors from 10%. #ZebraTribe #Wikieditathon is very proud to be on History Pin.
https://www.historypin.org/en/zebra-wikieditathon-on-ada-lovelace-day/geo/53.463164,-2.227364,18/bounds/53.462305,-2.227364,53.464023,-2.227364/paging/1/pin/1126110
Carol Ann collaborated with feminist charity FiLiA to bring their globally recognised annual conference to Manchester for 2018. She is back planning the FiLiA 2019 conference which bring together like-minded women, fighting injustices across the world, fighting violence towards women, pay disparity, discrimination against refugees, racism, classism. No topic is taboo.
