Leadership Development Programme for Women

In November 2022, 14 women became the first ATU cohort to participate in the highly regarded Aurora leadership development programme.

Aurora is Advance HE’s leadership development initiative for women. It is run as a unique partnership bringing together leadership experts, higher education providers and research institutes to take positive action to address the under-representation of women in leadership positions in the sector. Since its launch in 2013 more than 10,000 women from nearly 200 different institutions across the UK and the Republic of Ireland have participated in Aurora.

Eight academic and six professional and support staff from across ATU participated on the 2022 programme.

Through a combination of online and face-to-face delivery, they explored key areas of leadership success including core leadership skills, adaptive leadership skills, and power and politics. Participants were assigned a mentor for a oneyear period.

The final day of the Aurora 2022 leadership development programme was held at the Radisson Blue Hotel in Dublin on 17 May and focused on the participants’ future in higher education. ATU is committed to continuing to support participants on the programme. To find out more about the programme please click here.

Pictured above: Dr Orla Flynn, ATU President with some of the ATU participants on the Aurora 2022 leadership development programme at its final day held in the Radisson Blue Hotel in Dublin on 17 May.