Women in ID

LSE Department of International Development

LSE Department of International Development celebrates International Women's Day 2020 by interviewing three women in our department at different stages of their academic career. They tell us about their career journeys, highlights and barriers they have faced as well as what hopes they have for the International Development industry.

Episodes

  1. 03/09/2020

    #IWD2020: In conversation with Tiziana Leone

    We celebrate International Women's Day 2020 by interviewing three women in our department at different stages of their academic career. They tell us about their career journeys, highlights and barriers they have faced as well as what hopes they have for the International Development industry. In this short podcast, we interview Dr Tiziana Leone, Associate Professor in Health and International Development. "Being from a working class background - I'm the first in my family to graduate from university - you feel like an impostor. It is something that a lot of women feel. but only now in my forties do i feel like i deserve to be here." - Dr Tiziana Leone Interviews conducted by Cherry Agarwal

    #IWD2020: In conversation with Tiziana Leone

  2. 03/09/2020

    #IWD2020: In conversation with Sandra Sequeira

    We celebrate International Women's Day 2020 by interviewing three women in our department at different stages of their academic career. They tell us about their career journeys, highlights and barriers they have faced as well as what hopes they have for the International Development industry. In this short podcast, we interview Dr Sandra Sequeira, Associate Professor of Development Economics. "The moment in which you realise that you have just identified a connection between issues that no one has thought about before and that this can somehow assist in understanding how the word world works and how you can make it world the world work better and I think that's absolute bliss and fortunately throughout my career I think I've had many of those opportunities of identifying moments in which you know the research can economically be well received from a scientific point of view but at the same time when you feed those findings back to partners in the field and you can experience first hand how evidence can change of government policy hopefully for the better." - Dr Sandra Sequeira Interviews conducted by Cherry Agarwal

    #IWD2020: In conversation with Sandra Sequeira

  3. 03/09/2020

    #IWD2020: In conversation with Kate Meagher

    We celebrate International Women's Day 2020 by interviewing three women in our department at different stages of their academic career. They tell us about their career journeys, highlights and barriers they have faced as well as what hopes they have for the International Development industry. In this short podcast, we interview Dr Kate Meagher, Associate Professor in Development Studies. “The UK has the most serious gap in promotions of female professors in the whole of the EU. And the gender pay gap in the UK is extremely high still… female academics are paid 15% lower than men on average.” - Dr Kate Magher Interviews conducted by Cherry Agarwal

    #IWD2020: In conversation with Kate Meagher
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LSE Department of International Development celebrates International Women's Day 2020 by interviewing three women in our department at different stages of their academic career. They tell us about their career journeys, highlights and barriers they have faced as well as what hopes they have for the International Development industry.

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    LSE Department of International Development
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