The Office for Gender Equality has been holding the “UTokyo Women⁺ Let’s Create a Network of Researchers” meetings since AY2014 with the main purpose of supporting the career development and networking of female researchers.
This networking event welcomes all researchers, regardless of gender and age and so on, and is being developed with the aim of creating a large network of researchers within the university.
This year, we are going to focus on communication among researchers. We will provide an opportunity for researchers to share and discuss openly about their ideas and challenges in the group divided based on themes and position/status, as well as to develop their network. Please register through the URL below and join us.
*Date and Time: Tuesday, February 6, 2024, 10:30-12:00
*Method: Online (Zoom)
*Participants: Researchers belonging to the University of Tokyo (faculty members, researchers, graduate students)
Anyone regardless of job title, age, nationality or gender are welcome
*Capacity: About 70 people
*Registration: Pre-registration online through
https://forms.office.com/r/psqNxBRiMm
*Registration deadline: Thursday, February 1, 2024
If you need sign language or other means of guaranteed information accessibility, please register by Thursday 26 January.
*Participation fee: Free of charge
*Program
10:30 Opening remarks :
Prof. Kaori Hayashi, Executive Vice President of the University of Tokyo
10:35 Part 1 Theme discussion
(Groups will be divided based on the discussion themes)
Participants will discuss with those who select the same theme.
Theme：Balance between work/study and childcare, career decisions, job hunting, faculty member’s career, work-life balance and so on
11:15 General Session
Facilitator: Prof. Akiko Kumada, Graduate School of Engineering
11:35 Part2 Free discussion “Let’s develop position network”
(Groups will be divided based on their job title/status)
Part 2 is optional for those who wish to stay to join.
Participants will discuss with those who hold same job title / status.
Graduate students will also be divided into either Master’s degree or PhD groups.
＊English will be used as the discussion language if a participant in your discussion group based on position/status is a non-native Japanese speaker.
＊Participants are free to leave even during the middle of the event.
