Cygna
Home page for the CYGNA network
The name CYGNA comes from the female version of the Greek word for SWAN (Supporting Women in Academia Network). Established in June 2014, our main objective is to promote interaction among female academics and to provide a forum for learning, support, and networking. You can find out more about CYGNA by perusing the following 17 pages, linked at the top right.
We organize bi-monthly events and celebrated our 50th meeting in 2022; this academic year will see our 66th meeting. For more details on our meetings see here. A quick overview of past presentations can be found here. We maintain a readings and inspirations section for female academics, a LinkedIn group, and hashtags #cygna_london and #cygnawomen.
You can find a history of the first nine years at Cygna history and a write-up of our 10-year aniversary here: CYGNA 10-year Anniversary event. We maintain an overview of meeting blogposts here and explain our ethos here: Mission, values, and meeting charter. If you are interested in joining CYGNA please contact Anne-Wil Harzing (anne@harzing.com).
Organizing Committee
CYGNA Lead team (2023-current)
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Anne-Wil Harzing anne@harzing.com Middlesex Univ. United Kingdom |
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Ciara O'Higgins ciara.ohiggins@deusto.es Deusto Business School Spain |
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Clarice Santos |
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Christa Sathish mail@christasathish.com Univ. of Westminster United Kingdom |
Picture: Clarice, Ciara, Christa, and Anne-Wil (Regent's Park, September 2023)
CYGNA UK/Europe team
- Tatiana Andreeva, Maynooth University, Ireland [missing in the picture]
- Satkeen Azzizadeh, Middlesex University, UK
- Sylwia Ciuk, Oxford Brooks University, UK
- Joanna Karmowska, Oxford Brooks University, UK
Picture: Satkeen, Sylwia and Joanna (Regent's Park, September 2023)
CYGNA North team
- Axèle Giroud, University of Manchester, UK
- Martyna Śliwa, Durham University, UK
- Yingqi (Annie) Wei, University of Leeds, UK
Picture: Annie, Axèle, and Martyna (Cumberland Lodge June 2024)
CYGNA Asia-Pacific team
- Shea Fan, Deakin University, Australia
- Heejin Kim, Tohoku University, Japan [missing in the picture]
- Ting Liu, Kyoto University, Japan
Picture: Shea Fan and Ting Liu (Cumberland Lodge June 2024)
Founders & first CYGNA lead team, now consulting team (see picture)
- Argyro Avgoustaki, ESCP Business School [2014-2023], founding member
- Anne-Wil Harzing, Middlesex University [2014-current], founding member
- Ling Eleanor Zhang, ESCP Business School [2014-2023], founding member
- Shasha Zhao, University of Surrey [2017-2023]
Picture: Ling, Argyro, Anne-Wil, Shasha (ESCP Business School court yard, May 2022)
Overview of prior and planned meeting topics
The table below provides an overview of topics we have covered in our meetings in the first eight years, with scheduled topics in purple italics. They are loosely structured in a matrix, but in reality many topics have elements of multiple quadrants of the matrix.
What does CYGNA mean to its members? At our 50th meeting we asked members to share a few words about what CYGNA meant to them. The resulting word-cloud is a perfect summary of CYGNA: a friendly, kind, inclusive, and supportive community, providing a safe space / place to exchange ideas, share experiences, provide advice, inspire, and learn. We think that's pretty amazing :-). This succinct, but wonderfully evocative, comment by the equally wonderful Luisa Pinto says it all.
Belonging, learning, camaraderie, friendship and sharing. My academic family: I'm an only child who suddenly has a community of sisters. Thanks!
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Related pages
- About Cygna - Background on the CYGNA network
- Quick overview - Overview of presenations in our meetings with linked slidedecks
- Meetings - Information about forthcoming CYGNA meetings, and links to prior years
- Membership - Information for and about the Cygna network membership
- Readings and inspirations - Inspirational readings and resources for female academics
- The Cygna charter - Documents our CYGNA charter
- Cygna videos - Repository of introduction videos of our new CYGNA coordination team
- Cygna history - Tracing the history of our network since 2014, includes links to all of our meetings
- Frequently asked questions - Everything you may want to know about the CYGNA network and more
- The SWAN project - Initiated by Christa Sathish and Clarice Santos and implemented by Jacqueline Leon Ribas, this project created two swans reflecting CYGNA’s equal, inclusive, collective identity and the diversity of the network and its members
- Conference meet-ups - Provides brief write-ups of CYGNA conference meet-ups
- 10-year Anniversary event - Programme page for our 10-year anniversary event
- International Women's Day - Our collection of posts for international women's day
- CYG: Teaching & Scholarship Research - Our first CYG = SIG = Special Interest Group
- CYG: Career stage CYGs - Introductory page for our new career stage CYGs
- Cygna Writes - Introductory page for our new CYGNA Writes initiative - Writing in Community, Achieving in Silence
- Cygna Collaborations - Reports on some of the many collaborations our swans have engaged in across the CYGNA network
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Anne-Wil Harzing is Emerita Professor of International Management at Middlesex University, London. She is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, a select group of distinguished AIB members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the scholarly development of the field of international business. In addition to her academic duties, she also maintains the Journal Quality List and is the driving force behind the popular Publish or Perish software program.
