1. Changing Gender Roles Workshop
31st March – 1st April, 2016
University of Kent

2. Eastern ARC
Eastern Academic Research Consortium across Kent, UEA, Essex
Started since / , will continue for five years as a first stage
Build research synergies across three institutions to react to a larger range of research funding
Build stronger PG training network/sharing of expertise
Social sciences focus on Quantitative Social Science
However, focused on various thematic areas – gender, aging, conflict analysis, experimental methods

3. Changing gender roles in work and family
Wide range of people from across three institutions working in this area
Very interdisciplinary – sociology, economics, psychology, law, politics etc..
Both qualitative and quantitative methods
Looking across the world – UK, Europe, outside EU
Key themes – women/mother/parent’s employment patterns, and large trends in employment, women and leadership, Parenting/parenting time and separation, division of household tasks/childcare

4. Today Employment patterns and parenthood
1st session – focus mostly on women/mother’s employment patterns
2nd session – larger trends in changes in employment and income patterns, work-family conflict, parenting and separation
Dinner!

5. Tomorrow 1st session – women in leadership
2nd session – parenting, parenting time and separation
3rd session – division of household work
Brain storming session  New horizons in gender role research?
Networking!(also during coffee/lunch/dinner)
Result in real proposals for future collaboration
Tell us if you have any ideas of break out groups

6. Potential bits of money to look out for
ESRC standard grant, ESRC seminar series, British Academy small grant
Eastern ARC Seed Funding for QSS – Kent – up to £700 (deadline Nov 2016)
Kent Social Science Faculty Inter-school Networking fund – up to £1500 (deadline 1st May 2016)
Eastern ARC PG Events fund – Kent – up to £3000 (deadline late 2016)
Eastern ARC PG mobility fund for collaboration – up to £500 (ongoing)