After the success of last year’s format, we will again feature a workshop on peer mentoring at the Cambridge AWiSE AGM on Tuesday 21st February.
Peer mentoring is the idea of providing mentoring in a group of peers. In such a group everyone mentors each other. It works on the assumption that we all gain different experiences and in a group of committed and intelligent women there will be useful experiences relating to your current situation.
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Thank you everyone who attended “New Year New You: Building Confidence in the Workplace” yesterday evening and helped make it a fun and interactive workshop. Kate’s tomato-sauce topped workshop definitely gave us plenty to think about and work on! We’ll post on the blog some highlights of the evening soon (and an explanation of why tomato sauce and moving rocks are two of the key elements in building confidence).
We welcome the contributions of our members and friends on the CamAWiSE blog. Please email me at (info@camawise.org.uk).
Catherine
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CamAWiSE are holding the second Career-Development Day on Friday 22nd June 2012:
WISE-UP : Strategies for Success in STEM or 101 ways to make the most of yourself!
Continuing the successful framework on which the 1st Day was organised in 2010, we are basing the day around the themes of ‘making the most of your personality’ and ‘getting your ideas across and acted upon – making your voice heard’.
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Cambridge AWiSE Steering Group member – PENNY COGGILL
I currently work at the Sanger Institute, on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus at Hinxton, as an annotator for a database of protein domain-families.
I have been there since I decided to return to work after nearly 30 years of living abroad, bringing up three children and a lot of voluntary work.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and if I had known in 1999 what I know now about all the opportunities for re-training in Cambridge that AWiSE has encouraged and championed …well, I might not be at the Sanger and I do love my job and its a great place to work.
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Cambridge AWiSE co-Chair - DR TENNIE VIDELER
I currently work as a programme manager for a national careers organisation specialising in careers and development of researchers (called Vitae: www.vitae.ac.uk). How did I get here from a science background and is it still of use?
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Professor Dame Sandra Dawson is a Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, professor of Management Studies at Judge Business School (which she pretty much founded and led for 10 years), and was the first female Master of Sidney Sussex College. She has previously worked in the civil service and as a researcher, lecturer and professor at Imperial College. She is now non-executive director of the UK Financial Services Authority as well as Oxfam.
I like to try and distill a talk I’ve listened to/ report I’ve read into a few ‘learning points’ (for historical reasons this has crystalised into 9, but I find it is just useful to have a number to whittle down to/ group into). So here are my favourite 9 points….
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We start 2012 with an energising masterclass in building confidence and productivity in the workplace, with Kate Atkin, author of The Confident Manager. Kate was a popular speaker at our last Career Development Day and we are pleased to welcome her back.
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An inspirational speaker and expert facilitator and author with extensive experience; supportive and motivating with energy, drive, and passion.
Based in Cambridge Kate works with a wide variety of organisations, teams and individuals. Since starting Aspire 2 in 2000, over 95% of work has come through networking and personal recommendations. In her speaking, training and coaching Kate inspires change, instils self-belief and encourages confidence. She uses her own experiences as a manager and from life, bringing the theories alive. Kate is a published author on the subjects of confidence and networking and her latest book The Confident Manager is receiving wide acclaim for its practical lessons and readable style. Continue reading
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Dr. Warren graduated from Clare College, University of Cambridge with a first class honours degree in Medicine, and after UK board certification in histopathology and a CRUK PhD Fellowship in molecular biology at the ICR, London, pursued an extensive career in academic medicine and cancer research in London and Cambridge, including authorship of over 30 papers and articles in high ranking journals. She established an academic pathology research lab in Cambridge before founding Pathology Diagnostics Ltd. She has led this company from start-up to a high growth business which has won several awards over the last 3 years including ERBI Best Biotech/Medtech Start Up Company.
I was a mature student of 23 when I did a BSc in Zoology at Edinburgh University followed by a PhD. Thereafter I became a research scientist at Nottingham University in the Medical School and at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge studying the immunologicial intereactions that occur between the mammalian mother and her baby. The work tried to understand why the baby, whose inherits half its antigens from the father which are foreign to her, is not rejected like any other foreign graft. I was also an Inspector for the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority for 6 years, taught at Nottingham University and was a member of 6 scientific expeditions to the islands of French Polynesian Islands and the Tongian Archipeligo. As a result of these trips, on my retirement in 2000 I became involved in the creation of a charity, which we named The Frozen Ark. I have been busy on this project to preserve the genetic resources of the world’s endangered wild animals before they go extinct ever since.
