EQUALITY GUIdE - KU Leuven

226 Equality Guide
Tips for day 4
! Have a number of people (half of the participants) do the presentation without
giving them specific instructions beforehand.
! Look at each of the presentations and provide specific feedback for each participant.
Ask the group to give feedback as well.
! Afterwards, have the second half of the group do their presentations.
! Obviously, the advantage of splitting up the participants into two groups is that the
second group will no longer make beginners’ mistakes, as they will adapt their presentations
to the tips given by the lecturer. Everyone will notice the improvement.
! Do not discuss the theory on a point-by-point basis, but in function of what comes
up during the presentations. Afterwards, you can have a look at the theory to conclude
the day.
Tips for day 5
! Teach participants about meeting techniques through role-playing.
! Assign a ! randomly selected ! role to each participant.
! Always discuss the theory based upon what came up during the role-plays.
5. Conclusions and recommendations
In the introduction of this module, the following three questions were asked: what can
communication do for the academic career of female researchers, which aspects are
important and which needs do female academics have with respect to communication
training? In what follows we have tried to formulate answers from the results of this
study, viewed from three angles: 1) a literature study, 2) focus group sessions with a
group of twelve female academics of the University of Antwerp and 3) two communication
trainings at Flemish universities as a pilot and test phase.
What follows is a summary of what women want to achieve in their careers, which
gender and communication aspects can slow them down, what can help a career and
what does this mean for communication trainings? As a decisive factor, some tips and
recommendations are given, for female researchers on the one hand and the university
on the other.
5.1. What do women want to achieve in their career?
What female researchers want to achieve in their career, depends of course on their
personal motives and ambitions, but the list below shows the ambitions of the women