UPWURD (Uplifting Women, Underrepresented Genders and Diversity in Academia)

2024-2025 sessions and Zoom registration links:

• Wednesday October 2, 2024 (12pm-1pm): How to Present EDIIA-related Work in your Academic Promotion Dossier (presented by Dr. Mary Jane Esplen)
• Tuesday November 12, 2024 (9am - 1030am): Difficult Conversations (joint Workshop with Status-Only)

Learning Objectives:

*Learn non-verbal and verbal strategies that built strong leadership presence and trust

*Understand what is necessary to build relationship resilience, and learn practices to resolve relational tension

*Practice assessing the motivations of those who seem to hold widely different views

*Learn how to ‘dissect’ a difficult conversation

*Assess their own communicative ‘blueprint’ when engaged in a difficult conversation

*Learn to notice and properly process strong negative emotions that will aid them with de-escalating emotionally challenging conversations

*Practice skills that will help them become role models when tactful and effective communication is needed.

*Speaker: https://discover.research.utoronto.ca/11970-maja-djikic

• Wednesday January 29th, 2025 (12pm-1pm): topic TBC
• Wednesday April 2nd, 2025 (12pm-1pm): topic TBC
   

A new group mentorship series is offered by the Department of Psychiatry Mentorship Program, in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry Office for Faculty Development. Planning for the group launch was based on input from our faculty mentorship survey and the EDI Promotions Workshop held in Spring 2021.

See the group's Terms of Reference here.

Topics of interest for UPWURD may include known challenges and barriers concerning academic careers of marginalized genders (based on survey data and literature), such as:

• How to choose and maintain specific career pathways
• Negotiation (saying “No”, dealing with pressures of administrative/ academic asks; assertiveness and self-advocacy skills)
• Work life balance; time management; managing academic “leaves”
• Making decisions about children and family
• Academic Promotion and Opportunities
• Feeling unsupported / isolated
• Dealing with microaggressions or boundary violations
• Intersectionality with race, gender, and other social categorizations