Meetings 2018-2019

Overview of Cygna network meetings in the academic year 2018-2019

Anne-Wil Harzing - Sat 29 Sep 2018 09:25 (updated Tue 13 Oct 2026 07:31)

If you are interested in being on the mailing list and/or attending our events, please contact Christa Sathish. A quick overview of past presentations can be found here. A newsletter for the 2024-2025 year can be downloaded here and one for the 2025-2026 year here.

Meeting 22: 28 September 2018 (Middlesex University)

Organised by Shasha Zhao and Anne-Wil Harzing, Middlesex University

• How to prepare effective promotion applications (Anne-Wil Harzing, Middlesex University)
  • It is so unfair! Internal vs. external promotion [presentation download]
  • Facilitated discussion on promotion applications, see also this blogpost series
• Brainstorming about future meetings and the organization of a special event in September 2019 to celebrate five years of CYGNA.

Meeting 23: 23 November 2018 (ESCP Europe)

Organised by Argyro Avgoustaki, ESCP London

• Many paths to research productivity: Understand your co-author(s) and yourself with MBTI Veronique Tran, ESCP Paris
• Veronique's presentation can be downloaded in two parts here: Intro to MBTI for CYGNA and Each person confirms their preferences.

Meeting 24: 25 January 2019 (Imperial College London)

Organised by Sarah Otner, Imperial College London

• Big Data in the Social Sciences (Sarah Otner, Imperial College London)
  • Presentation download, Handout with key resource material
• Science Communication (Sara Giarola, Imperial College London)
• Ethics & Applications, including Artificial Intelligence (Gina Neff, Oxford Internet Institute)

See also: Special Issue in Organizational Research Methods July 2018 on Big Data and Introduction to Big Data for Social Sciences (free 1-hour SAGE campus course).

Meeting 25: 22 March 2019 (Birbeck University of London)

Organised by Alexandra Beauregard, Birkbeck University of London

• Life-long learning in academia: participating in [leadership] development programs
  • Salma Soliman, Middlesex University: Beyond formalities: Reflections of Erasmus+ Teaching visit
  • Orthodoxia Kyriacou, Middlesex University: Seeing into the light: some personal experiences of the Aurora programme [presentation download]
• See also: When to say no?, Would you ask a male academic the same question?, Female academics: Wives of the organization?, Be proactive, resilient & realistic!, How to prevent burn-out? About staying sane in academia, CV of failures

Meeting 26: 24 May 2019 (Leeds Univ Business School)

Organised by: Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki, Annie Wei, Elizabeth Rose, and Jo Garrick, University of Leeds in collaboration with NARTI (Northern Advanced Research Training Initiative)

• When the Going gets Tough, the Tough get Going: Building Resilience in Academia
  
  • Building Personal Resilience Nicola Neath, Staff Counsellor and Mental Health Practitioner, University of Leeds)
  • Building resilience, sharing experiences (Kerrie Unsworth, Annie Wei, University of Leeds)
• See also: When to say no?, Would you ask a male academic the same question?, Female academics: Wives of the organization?, Be proactive, resilient & realistic!, How to prevent burn-out? About staying sane in academia, CV of failures

Meeting 27: 14 June 2019, London School of Economics

Organised by  Hyun-Jung Lee  London School of Economics

• Internationalisation of Japanese academia: is there a role model? (Heejin Kim, Tohoku University)
• Skills development session “Social media clinic” (Anne-Wil Harzing, Middlesex University)

• See also: CYGNA: Women academics in Australia and France, CYGNA: Careers, mobility and belonging: foreign women academics in the UK, Fostering research impact through social media