International Women's Day at Roedean - 2024

IWD2024 at Roedean

Roedean’s Festival Celebrating Inspiring Women 2024

The world is changing – the theme for International Women’s Day 2024 is #InspireInclusion. Although women have more opportunities in society than ever before, they can still very often face inequality. Roedean’s founders, the Lawrence sisters, were determined that our School would provide girls with an education that was equal to that any boy would get, and this vision remains central to the School’s ethos today. Despite the changes in society, young women need exposure to inspiring and successful female role-models to empower them and confirm their belief that they will make a difference in the world.

To mark International Women’s Day 2024, Roedean is proud to welcome twentytwo speakers to its Festival Celebrating Inspiring Women on 8 March. These women are at the very forefront of their fields, and they are addressing the students on topics ranging from Jane Austen and Beefeaters to veterinary science and composing, and from ‘disruptive sustainability’ and fashion to engineering and international peacemaking. It will, no doubt, be a day which is exciting, enlightening, and, most of all, empowering.

Today in the 21st century, more girls around the world go to school than ever before. Nevertheless, more than 62 million girls worldwide still do not receive an education because of their gender, and 15 million girls will never set foot in a classroom. We are incredibly fortunate to be educated in the UK – it is, therefore, our responsibility to take full advantage of whatever opportunities we have. Education is a right, but it is also a gift to be cherished.

Dr Ross Barrand – Deputy Head: Co-Curriculum and Partnerships

Dr Siobhan Abeyesinghe

“Using Science to Understand Animal Minds”

Siobhan is Associate Professor in Animal Behaviour & Welfare Science and Head of Group RVC Animal Welfare Science and Ethics at the Royal Veterinary College.

She graduated from the University of Newcastle with a BSc in Animal Science, completed a MSc in Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare at the University of Edinburgh, and subsequently undertook a PhD at the University of Bristol. She teaches science, veterinary, and veterinary nursing undergraduate and postgraduate students about animal behaviour and welfare, and conducts research in these areas to provide evidence to improve animal lives. She has worked with various species, from frogs to humans, but has long been interested in all things chicken, and her research focuses primarily on the application of animal behaviour science to understand chickens’ perspectives on their world.

Siobhan is also a Council member of UFAW (Universities Federation for Animal Welfare) and a Trustee for the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA), charities dedicated to the generation and use of scientific evidence to promote animal welfare.

Dame Helen Atkinson Professor

“This is Engineering – and How to Have a Tube Station Named After You for a Day”

Professor Dame Helen Atkinson is the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Aerospace, Transport System and Manufacturing at Cranfield University. Cranfield is a purely postgraduate University based in Bedfordshire, and is the only University in Europe with its own airport, its own pilots, its own aircraft, and its own air traffic control services. Helen is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the highest honour for an engineer in the UK.

On National Engineering Day 2023 (1 November), Helen was one of the Engineering Icons. For the day, Bounds Green tube station was renamed Dame Helen Atkinson. This primarily recognised her role in chairing the Royal Academy of Engineering social media campaign ‘This is Engineering’. The campaign aims to encourage more young people to consider engineering as a career, and has had more than 64 million video views.

Helen was made a Dame in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2021 for services to engineering and education.

Nomi Bar-Yaacov

“A career in International Diplomacy and Peacemaking”

Nomi Bar-Yaacov is an international negotiator, arbitrator and mediator, and a convenor of back channel (Track) II negotiations, principally but not exclusively in the Middle East. She is an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. She holds degrees from Cambridge University, the European University Institute, and Columbia University, and she was also a Junior Research Fellow at Oxford University.

Prior to joining Chatham House, she was the Head of the Middle East Programme and the Conflict Management Programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). Nomi is a former speechwriter to the UN Secretary General, and a former political adviser in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary General at the organisation’s headquarters in New York where she covered the Security Council.

She has also worked as legal adviser to the UN Mission in Haiti, political adviser to the UN Mission in Guatemala, and on elections in Mozambique and South Africa. Nomi worked as legal adviser to various missions of the Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in the Balkans, including Albania and Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia, and in Montenegro. Having been both a spokesperson for the UN and later a diplomatic correspondent has given her unique insights into how media works and how it can promote peace. Nomi lectures and negotiates in six languages, mainly learned in the field. She is a strong believer that in order to understand the history and culture of a country one works on, it is important to study that language.

Sally Beamish OBE

“Who Knew that Women Can Be Composers?”

Sally Beamish was born in London. She began her career as a viola player with the Raphael Ensemble, Academy of St Martins and London Sinfonietta, before moving to Scotland in 1990 to focus on composition. In 2018, she won the Award for Inspiration at the British Composer Awards, and in 2020 was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s birthday honours.

She has written three major oratorios, and has recently been named in BBC Music Magazine as one of the top 6 oratorios of the 20th and 21st century. She is known for her many concertos for internationally-renowned soloists, and her harp concerto, Hive, was premiered at the BBC Proms in 2022, by Catrin Finch.

Future commissioned works include a piano quartet and several concertos, and she was recently appointed Composer in Residence with the Yehudi Menuhin School, where she mentors composers and performs her works with staff and pupils. Her Partita for string octet will be included in the 2024 centenary celebrations of Sir Neville Marriner at the Wigmore Hall, London, performed by the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields.

Emma Draper

“A Life In Style: Finding Your Career in The World Of Fashion”

My passion and first love is fashion, and I have successfully carved out a long career in fashion retail, building and developing my beloved high street store and brand, Velvet.

I built this business from the ground up, with fierce determination, dogged resilience, and a huge reserve of unswerving passion for everything I do. It still gets me up in the morning, and I am as excited about it today as I was on the very first day of trading. I now have the confidence and ambition to seek further challenges, including developing a growing local property business and taking part in public speaking events like this one at Roedean. I was thrilled to be awarded Surrey and Sussex Business Woman of the Year 2023.

Velvet is run by a magnificent and highly professional team of 18 dedicated and enthusiastic women, and it is always a great joy to work alongside them. My talk is about the power and the potential that every woman possesses, and how we are all capable of achieving success in everything that we do. It is incredibly important to be fully committed and passionate about whatever you choose to do, and, whatever the challenges that you will inevitably face on your journey, you really can succeed on your own terms – believing in yourself should always be the first thing on your to-do list.

Georgia Elliott-Smith

“She Changes Climate: Using Female Superpowers for Climate Action”

An environmental engineer, Chartered Environmentalist, and former UNESCO Special Junior Envoy for Youth & the Environment, Georgia started her career as one of UK construction’s first Environment Managers.

Founder and managing director of sustainability consultancy Element Four, Georgia now works with corporate, public-sector, and NGO clients, delivering her ‘disruptive sustainability’ approach – a combination of best practice and activism that drives meaningful change in industry.

Georgia is also an Extinction Rebellion activist and was part of the founding committee of She Changes Climate, a global campaign for promoting women in climate negotiations and solutions. In 2021, Georgia successfully challenged the UK government in the High Court over their failure to uphold the Paris Agreement. In 2023, she founded legal activist group Fighting Dirty with journalist George Monbiot, forcing the government to tackle pollution.

Georgia will share insights from over 25 years on the frontline of climate action, discussing how to move from anxiety and procrastination to positive action at scale and pace. She will discuss how, as a woman in a heavily male-dominated industry, she has developed unique skills and perspectives in the fight against environmental destruction.

Josephine Gauld

“Women and Diplomacy”

Josephine has been a British diplomat for over 20 years, working mostly in and on Africa with postings in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, and Kenya. She is currently the United Kingdom’s Deputy High Commissioner in Kenya, and the UK’s Permanent Representative to the UN Environment Programme and UN Habitat, both of which are headquartered in Nairobi.

She will talk about the history of women in (British) diplomacy, and what it is like now to work as a woman in international relations.

Annelise Gray

“Girl Racer: A Roman Heroine In Children’s Fiction”

Annelise Gray is the author of the children’s adventure series, Circus Maximus, about a young girl called Dido who dreams of sporting glory in the cut-throat world of Roman chariot racing. The first book, Race to the Death, was published in 2021, and the fourth and final volume, Return of the Champion, comes out in September this year.

Annelise has a PhD in Classics from Cambridge, where she was taught by Mary Beard. Before becoming a children’s author, she wrote an acclaimed history of the imperial women of ancient Rome (under the name Annelise Freisenbruch) and worked as a historical researcher for television companies, including the BBC and writers/presenters such as Bettany Hughes and Ben Fogle.

Her talk will describe how she was inspired to create the character of Dido, and discuss the historical accuracy of the Circus Maximus series in the context of her research into what we know of Roman women’s lives.

Sorcha Harris OR

“What Friendship and Community Have Taught Me For a Career in the Arts”

‘There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.’ – Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Sorcha was a day pupil at Roedean and left School in 2019. Born and raised in Hove, she spent four years at Roedean engaging with the community and soaking up all the amazing opportunities it had to offer. She honed her interest in Theatre and Music whilst studying at Roedean, and continued those passions into her university career. Sorcha directed her first full-length production while at Roedean and she has not stopped since. She graduated from the University of Exeter with a first class degree in English Literature, made her Opera debut with the Berlin Opera Academy, and received her MFA in Theatre Directing from the Lir Academy.

Now living in Dublin after completing her Masters, Sorcha is making work that speaks to her passions whilst also living the life of an artist – always having twopart time jobs with countless emails to send. She is thrilled to be coming back to Roedean for International Women’s Day, as it was her favourite Roedean tradition and a day that she continues to honour. She will be speaking about how her experience at Roedean shaped her, how community and artistry are intertwined, and what life is honestly like for a Postgrad in the big city.

Mariam Khan

“It’s Not About the Burqa –Feminism Needs to Die? ”

Mariam Khan is a British writer and activist, the editor of It’s Not About the Burqa, an anthology of essays by Muslim women published by Picador. She currently lives in Birmingham and is currently working as a freelance journalist but previously worked as Race and Diversity Reporter at MyLondon.

Blindly sending my CV and cover letter out wasn’t working. I landed a role at the Royal Shakespeare Company through Creative Access and I was more than willing to give it a try. That was my step into working world as a graduate. It was one of the steepest learning curves for me. The lack of diversity in the places I worked after I left university was shocking. There weren’t many people like me working in the spaces I was occupying. But seeing is believing, and seeing people in their respective roles helped me realise that there were spaces being created for people like me, even if it was people like me creating them.

Working in publishing was one of the reasons I was able to say out loud, ‘I want to write a book that represents the diversity Muslim Women identity’. I wanted to deconstruct the narrative around Muslim women built by media and culture, and make something on our own terms. I wanted to make Muslim women speaking for themselves the norm. In the process, I thought about how I’d come to be in the place I was. I didn’t want to publish a book about Muslim Women all by myself – I wanted to create a shared platform where as many Muslim Women as possible could speak up about their experiences and be heard, and, in creating It’s Not About The Burqa, I think I’m doing that.

Dr Renée Landell

“TV Jobs & Book Deals: Claiming Space in the Arts and Humanities As a Black Woman”

Dr Renée Landell is a literary and cultural scholar, visual artist, writer, and public speaker. In 2021, she signed with the leading international literary agency, Andrew Nurnberg Associates, and has appeared on Al Jazeera News, BBC News, and CBC (Canada) as a commentator, and more recently featured in the BBC2 documentary ‘David Harewood on Blackface’.

In 2023, she completed a PhD with a thesis exploring representations of Black humanity and the Nonhuman world in Anglophone Caribbean neo-slave narratives. Alongside her research, Dr Landell works as the founding director of Beyond Margins UK, a multi-award winning racial justice and equity movement, and as co-founder of ‘Black in Arts and Humanities’, a global online network of Black scholars and practitioners.

Hien Le

“One of Shell’s 30% Female Leaders”

Hien has been at Shell since 2013. Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies that aims to meet the world’s growing need for more and cleaner energy solutions in ways that are economically, environmentally, and socially responsible. Shell has more than 90,000 employees in over 70 countries, with women in 30% of the senior leadership positions. It is the number one mobility retailer in the world, with more than 46,000 branded sites and serving 32 million customers daily in over 80 countries. Shell’s adjusted earnings in 2022 were $40 billion.

Hien works within the Tax organisation, in particular the Global Transfer Pricing Team. She is responsible for designing, implementing, and defending the pricing policies between related parties in Shell businesses. She provides direct tax support on all aspects of the business operations. Prior to joining Shell, she was at Ernst & Young in both London and Australia. She provided direct tax advice to energy clients, tax structuring advice on M&A, and provided tax support on financial audits of MNEs. She has over 23 years’ experience in Tax.

Hien has a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Economics) degree from the University of Melbourne, Australia, is a Fellow of the Association of Taxation Technicians in the UK, and is a Chartered Accountant in Australia. She is married and has two boys who keep her busy, and she regularly travels to Australia to visit family and friends.

Global Transfer Pricing Director at Shell plc.

Emily Lewis-Garwood

“From Trauma to the Tower: Battlefield Medic to Yeoman Guard”

The role of Yeoman Warder, popularly known by the nickname ‘Beefeater’, descends from the band of warders who guarded the Tower of London and its prisoners from the reign of William the Conqueror. The Yeoman Warders as they exist today were officially created in 1485 by Henry VIII, as an extension of his personal protection, and to this day continue to hold a traditional ceremonial role as Extraordinary Members of The King’s Bodyguard.

Applicants for the role of Yeoman Warder of His Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London, must have served at least 22 years in the armed forces, hold the Long Service and Good Conduct medal, and have reached the rank of Warrant Officer or equivalent, before being selected for interview and a rigorous selection process. The new Yeoman Warder uniforms were unveiled in April, and feature a large royal crown in red, below which is the insignia of the reigning monarch, which now show ‘CIIIR’, in recognition of the new monarch.

YW Emily Lewis-Garwood grew up in Brixham, in South Devon, and served for 25 years as a Combat Medical Technician in the Royal Army Medical Corps, stationed across the UK and in Germany, The Falklands and Cyprus throughout her career. She is the first female Combat Medical Technician to become a Yeoman Warder at the Tower of London, as well as the fifth woman to take on the role in its 500-year history. When she isn’t on duty at the Tower of London, Emily loves to travel, watch live music, and embrace her lifelong passion for rugby, both on and off the pitch.

Emma McFerran OR

“Fashion Intelligence: Building the World’s Largest Fashion Shopping App”

Emma McFerran is the Chief Executive Officer of Lyst, the leading premium and luxury fashion shopping app. Lyst connects retailers and brands around the world, including Gucci, Prada, Loewe, Other Stories, ASOS and more with 200 million shoppers each year. Lyst’s best-in-class customer experience is powered by data, AI and technology.

Emma joined Lyst 10 years ago after starting her career as a corporate lawyer. Emma has worked across all areas of the company and has a deep understanding of the Lyst platform, and the fashion industry it supports.

Key to her role is ensuring that Lyst is always guided by its culture and values, so that the business and its people grow together. Emma is a fierce advocate for diversity and inclusion, and is passionate about building powerful teams and coaching the next generation of leaders.

Siggi Mwasote

“Resilience And Authenticity Are Valuable Commodities”

Siggi is a singer, performer and Choir director. She has a wealth of experience leading vocal workshops and choirs for both children and adults. She teaches vocal at BIMM Music Institute Brighton. Siggi lives all genres but her passions are Gospel, Soul and Jazz.

Siggi runs her Community Choir, Spring into Soul who were finalists on BBC’s Songs of Praise Gospel Choir of the Year 2018 based in Worthing, West Sussex as well as fronts her band, Lakuta, an Afro Funk Collective, signed to Brighton label, Tru Thoughts. They are, and continue to be, regulars on the Festival scene, both in the UK and abroad.

Siggi teaches performance, stage craft and vocal techniques at BN1 Arts, the new FE (16-19 years) Performing Arts college that has taken over from BIMM.

“A World Unimagined - finding home in the Ocean”

Zandile Ndhlovu is South Africa’s first Black Female Freediving Instructor, and the founder of The Black Mermaid Foundation, an organization focused on creating diverse representation in the Ocean Arena, her work centres around enabling access to Ocean spaces to local ocean facing communities in hope to diversify Ocean spaces recreationally, professionally and in sport, while creating a new generation of Ocean guardians.

As a Diversity and Inclusion Consultant, she is able to make use of these skills in her advocacy while working to reshape narratives through storytelling. She has contributed to global topics that include Ocean Conservation, Climate Change, Coastal Justice and capacitating the youth to participate in the Blue Ocean Economy .

Zandile is recognized in the BBC 100 Women list of 2023, is an award winning conservationist, a TED Speaker and has featured on Discovery Channels Shark Week along with having participated in incredible international campaigns that centre conservation.

She is a change agent, using her voice to create the needed expansion in society while reshaping narratives, through her work in the Foundation, Public Speaking and Film.

Sally Penni MBE FRSA

“How To Use Your Imposter Moment As Your Super Strength In Law And Beyond! ”

Dr Sally Penni MBE is a high-profile award-winning practising barrister at Law at Kenworthy’s Chambers. She is also a public speaker, diversity leader, and, in her own words and most importantly, a Proud Mother of three.

Sally is the founder of Women in the Law UK, a professional development organisation empowering its 35,000 members, through education and training events. It is focused on supporting the next generation of leaders in law and encouraging career progression through personal development.

She is the host of her acclaimed weekly podcast, Talking Law, which has now over 500,000 listeners from aspiring lawyers to those in business and commerce. It has global reach and is currently number 23 in the careers charts. Sally is a respected legal expert in her own right.

In 2020, she was awarded an MBE by her Majesty in Her Birthday Honours list for services to diversity, social mobility, and to law. In 2022, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Manchester Metropolitan University, and, in the same year, she began sitting as a part time judge in the VTE Tribunal.

Kavita Puri

“Partition Voices: Untold British Stories from India”

Kavita Puri is an award-winning journalist, executive producer, and broadcaster for the BBC. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed book “Partition Voices: Untold British Stories”, which was published in 2019, and a new edition to mark the 75th anniversary of the Indian Partition can out in August 2022. Her landmark three-part series, Partition Voices, on Radio 4, was awarded The Royal Historical Society’s Best Radio and Podcast prize, and its overall Public History Prize. She also oversaw the BBC’s coverage of the 70th anniversary, which included a Newsnight special programme in front of a live audience of hundreds.

The Radio Times described Kavita as “one of the foremost chroniclers of the South Asian diaspora experiences.” She regularly lectures on British South Asian history and speaks at universities, and has given a Darwin College public lecture at Cambridge University. Kavita was awarded Journalist of the Year at the Asian Media Awards in 2015.

Kavita is a Fellow of The Royal Historical Society, a Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Chair of the V&A East Committee. She studied Law at Cambridge University and briefly trained as a corporate solicitor. She grew up in Kent and lives in London with her husband, two children and dog Coco.

Ingrid Rolland Brigadier

“Head Strategy (Reserves)”

Brigadier Ingrid Rolland VR DL first served as a Reserve officer whilst at the University of Leeds Officer Training Corps. In 1988, following graduation with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, she commissioned REME serving in the UK and Germany until 1997. She then transferred back into the Reserves and in the early years held a number of appointments including a Full Time Reserve Service staff appointment in ES Branch HQ 1(UK) Armoured Division where she deployed on Ex SAIF SARREEA 2. She attended the Reserves Command and Staff Course in 2006 prior to promotion to Lt Col as SO1 ES(V) HQ 4 Division and LONDIST, followed by command of 103 Battalion REME. On promotion to Colonel, she held the appointment of Assistant Commander of 11 Infantry Brigade, followed by a brief stint in the Personnel Directorate as AH Army Personnel Research Capability before further promotion in 2017 to 1*, taking over as Head of Personnel Reserves. In September 2019, Brigadier Rolland assumed the role of Deputy Commander Home Command and in 2020 was mobilised during the initial 6 months of Op RESCRIPT. She is currently Head Strategy (Reserves) within the Strategic Centre in Army Headquarters.

Brigadier Rolland is honoured to be appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant for Surrey, delights in her role of Honorary Colonel to Sussex Army Cadet Force and supports a number of charities including as President of the Surrey Royal British Legion. She lives in Surrey, has two children at University and is an Offshore Operations Supervisor for Centrica Energy +. She enjoys most sports but has a particular interest in both skiing and sailing. She spends any spare time in the garden, bell ringing and enjoying good country pubs.

Anita Sullivan OR

“Creative Writing: Story Structure and Subverting

the Patriarchy”

Anita Sullivan is an multi award-winning writer of audio drama and theatre plays, short-stories and screenplays. All of her 60+ scripts have been staged or broadcast. In 2023, her radio drama ‘End of Transmission’ (the story of HIV told by the virus) won the prestigious Tinniswood Award, a BBC Audio Drama Award, and was a Writers’ Guild Finalist.

Her upcoming work includes the following:

• ‘Silos’, an original serial for BBC Radio4, set in a near future where humans hibernate to reduce resource consumption (broadcast/online from 22 March 2024)

• ‘Girl of the Sea of Cortez’, an adaptation of Peter Benchley’s marine eco-fable for BBC Radio4 (broadcast/online from 8 December 2024)

• A novel to be published in 2025 (top secret!)

Her presentation will be an essential creative writing workshop for anyone wanting to tell stories: book, screen, theatre, graphic novel, gaming. It will be a conversational session with case-study, Q&A, and an optional writing exercise, to help you grow your skill set and confidence.

Kathryn Sutherland

Professor

“Jane Austen: Teenage Writer”

Professor Kathryn Sutherland, Senior Research Fellow, St Anne’s College, Oxford, is the author of numerous studies of English and Scottish Literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her books include Jane Austen’s Textual Lives: from Aeschylus to Bollywood (2005), Jane Austen: Writer in the World (2017), and Why Modern Manuscripts Matter (2022). Her web edition Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts (2010), available at https://janeausten.ac.uk, is a free-to-access digital site, incorporating images and transcriptions of Austen’s writings from her teenage years to the year she died. The site is used in schools and universities worldwide. Kathryn is the Patron of Jane Austen’s House, a literary museum inside the home from which Austen prepared and published her famous novels.

From the age of 11, Jane Austen was writing short stories, mainly comic imitations of the books she was reading: school textbooks, classic novels, and trashy fiction. She made fun of them all. Hers are stories about girls behaving badly: drinking, gambling, stealing, and brawling. They appear to have little in common with the restrained and realistic female societies portrayed in her adult novels. Yet she was using these early comic stories critically, to test how fiction works, and to train herself to become a writer.

Jacqueline Tege

“Options – a Very Non-Linear Journey”

Jacqui Tege is an Executive Director at JP Morgan Chase, specialising in Technology Risk and Controls.  She began her working career in 1982 as a receptionist with an intense curiosity and interest in technology.  She was transferred into a formal technology role at that organisation, where she learned software engineering and importantly how to apply software to solve financial services concerns.

Her journey as a software engineer continued at other major investment banking firms, where she led several multinational IT teams focused on custody and regulatory systems, programme delivery, and support.  To continue her learning journey and enhance her professional profile, in 2015, Jacqui took a role working as a Technology Specialist in a special Supervisory unit; this brought her in direct contact with the broader business and regulatory concerns impacting on technology solutions. Jacqui worked with the top UK-regulated Investment Banks, to help steer those organisations through various challenges, including Brexit, Operational Resilience, and other priority Supervisory engagement. In 2021, Jacqui joined the JP Morgan Athena team in Markets Technology, where she currently manages the risk and control agenda for Athena Core, a critical Markets business platform.

Jacqui is a sci-fi enthusiast and history buff, particularly regarding her Caribbean ancestry.  She moved from New York to London in the late 1990s, and now lives in South London with her partner and their ‘furry daughter’, Radclyffe.

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Sorcha Harris OR

Anita Sullivan OR

Emma Draper

Sally Beamish OBE FRSE

Georgia Elliott-Smith OR

Mariam Khan

Kavita Puri

Professor Dame Helen Atkinson DBE DL

Georgia Elliott-Smith OR

Emma McFerran OR

Emily Lewis-Garwood

Hien Le

Zandile Ndhlovu

Annelise Gray

Dr Siobhan Abeyesinghe

Brigadier Ingrid Rolland

Siggi Mwasote

Dr Renée Landell

Jacqueline Tege

Prof Kathryn Sutherland

Dr Renée Landell

Josephine Gauld

Sorcha Harris OR

Sally Penni MBE FRSA

Nomi Bar-Yaacov

Topic

“What Friendship and Community Have Taught Me For a Career in the Arts”

“The Hero’s Journey: Story Structure and Subverting the Patriarchy”

“A Life In Style: Finding Your Career in The World Of Fashion”

“Who Knew that Women Can Be Composers?”

“She Changes Climate: Using Female Superpowers for Climate Action”

“It’s Not About the Burqa – Feminism Needs to Die? ”

“Partition Voices: Untold British Stories from India”

“This is Engineering – and How to Have a Tube Station Named After You for a Day”

“She Changes Climate: Using Female Superpowers for Climate Action”

“Fashion Intelligence: Building the World’s Largest Fashion Shopping App”

“From Trauma to the Tower: Battlefield Medic to Yeoman Guard”

“One of Shell’s 30% Female Leaders”

“A Black Mermaid in the Deep Dark Blue”

“Girl Racer: A Roman Heroine In Children’s Fiction”

“Using Science to Understand Animal Minds”

“Head Strategy (Reserves)”

“A Brighton Singer”

“The Power of Interpretation: How the Arts and Humanities Can Revolutionise the World”

“Options – a Very Non-Linear Journey”

“Jane Austen: Teenage Writer”

“The Power of Interpretation: How the Arts and Humanities Can Revolutionise the World”

“Women and Diplomacy”

“What Friendship and Community Have Taught Me For a Career in the Arts”

“Women In Law”

“A career in International Diplomacy and Peacemaking”