Since 2013, the University has supported 174 women to undertake Advance HE’s Aurora Women’s Leadership. This has been through a combination of centrally and departmentally funded places.
During this time, The Academy has set up an Aurora Alumni network for all staff who have completed Aurora – whether at the University of Liverpool or with a previous employer. The network holds regular events for members and in 2022, co-hosted an online conference for all Aurora alumni from universities in the North West.
The Academy will use this key milestone year to reflect on the impact of Aurora to date and to evaluate other similar programmes available to ensure that Aurora remains the best choice for our staff. Therefore, centrally funded places will not be made available in 2023/24.
If your department has decided to directly fund places on Aurora, please contact TheAcademy@liverpool.ac.uk to process these bookings.
During this academic year, The Academy will be undertaking consultation with all staff who’ve completed the Aurora programme so far to fully evaluate their experiences and the impact that Aurora has had on their career progression, skills, confidence levels and any other benefits it has brought about.
Alongside using evidence from this evaluation, The Academy will review other similar training programmes available in order to benchmark these against Aurora in terms of programme content, expertise and diversity of speakers and trainers, networking opportunities for participants and value for money. If any colleagues have experience of any women’s leadership programmes that they like to recommend, we would welcome hearing more about this. Please send your comments to TheAcademy@liverpool.ac.uk.
The Academy offers a range of leadership development opportunities. Please visit our webpages for more information: Effective Leadership – The Academy Intranet – University of Liverpool.
Additional information on internal and external leadership development can also be found here Inclusive_Leadership_Provision_UoL Profile and Collections – Wakelet.