Policy

• In March 2015, Professor Louise Morley’s 2013 Stimulus Paper ‘Women in Higher Education Leadership’ enabled HEFCE, CUC, UUK, LFHE, ECU, GuildHE and UCEA to identifying solutions to the issues faced by women in HE. This is evidenced by an email exchange of the 12th March 2015 between Amy Norton (HEFCE) and Louise Morley (available).
• In February 2015, Professor Louise Morley and Dr Barbara Crossouard reported to the Global Education Dialogue (GED – British Council) ‘The Absent Revolution: Women and Leadership’ in New Delhi, India. GEDs bring together key policy-makers and influencers to debate the challenges and opportunities facing international higher education. They are facilitated dialogues between governments, universities and industry, with contributions and fresh perspectives from our network of leading thinkers. Louise’s presentation raised a lot of interest, especially with the Iranian delegation, who requested a copy of her presentation.
• Both Louise and Barbara were invited to address a number of institutional stakeholders. For instance, Barbara attended the launch of the British Council report 'New Horizons: Higher Education and Skills in South Asia', which included a summary of CHEER’s British Council funded research into Women's Leadership in Higher Education in South Asia, June 2015.
• Professor Louise Morley visited the National Academy of Science and Technology in Kathmandu, Nepal where she presented Women in Higher Education Leadership in South Asia: Rejection, refusal, reluctance, revisioning and had meetings about the findings of a British Council-funded research project on women in higher education leadership in South Asia. The seminar was attended by academics, NGOs and colleagues from relevant ministries, including Mr Ganesh Shah from the Ministry of Science and Technology.
• Professor Louise Morley presented 'Lost Leaders: Women in the Global Academy' as part of a roundtable on 'Women and Leadership in Higher Education' at Oxford Brookes University. Other participants included colleagues from HEFCE, the Equality Challenge Unit and Lord Davies' Women on Boards Steering Group, Executive Search Agencies and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, November 2014.
• Professor Louise Morley presented the findings from the 'Women in Higher Education Leadership in South Asia' project to a British Council Global Education Dialogue 'South Asia Policy Roundtable: Revolution and Realities in the New Economic Order' at SOAS, London, January 2015. The event was attended by ministers of higher education and policymakers from around the South Asian region. January 2015.

Conceptual / Academic

Professor Louise Morley and Dr Barbara Crossouard discussed their findings at a number of different venues, furthering the conceptual and practical implications of the 'Women in Higher Education Leadership in South Asia' study. These venues included:

• Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) ‘Climbing the greasiest of poles? Women and HE leadership in developing countries’, London
  13 July 2015
• The Sixth Annual Gulf Comparative Education Society Symposium 'Inclusion not Exclusion: Comparative Educational Perspectives at the Heart of Sustainable Development', Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  April 2015
• Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge ‘Delivering Equality: Women and Success Summit’
  March 2015
• SPRU International Campaign Gender InSite Conference 'International Approaches to Support Gender Equality in Research Careers', University of Sussex
  March 2015
• British Council India - with support from UK Science and Innovation Network and Department of Science and Technology - ‘Women in STEM: A case for intervention’, New Delhi, India
  15 February 2015
• Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Mumbai, India
  5 February 2015

Sources to corroborate impact

• Testimonial from Professor Simonetta Manfredi, Director, Centre for Diversity Policy Research & Practice, Oxford Brookes University.
• Testimonial from Prof Pat Preedy, consultant, GEMS Chief Academic Officer of Early Childhood Education/Little GEMS International, Early Childhood programme for babies and young children.
• Testimonial from Danny Whitehead IRAN team and Michelle Potts, Pakistan TEAM, British Council.
• Testimonial from Chris Havergal, Times Higher Education
• Testimonial from Ismail Badat, Regional Manager Higher & Further Education, Wider South Asia (WSA), British Council
• Testimonial from Evelina Vardanyan, The Association of Commonwealth Universities.
• Testimonial from Amy Norton, Senior HE Policy Adviser, Leadership, Governance and Management, Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).