WHEN's Blog
A selection of insightful pieces written by women who work across the breadth of the higher education sector
Overcoming the imposter phenomenon
By Ann-Marie Stephenson
WHEN volunteer
So what exactly is the Imposter Phenomenon?
Impostor Phenomenon (IP), is the feeling of intellectual phoniness and was first theorised by American psychologists Pauline Rose...
WHEN annual conference 2019: ''Who am I supposed to be?''
On 20 June 2019, WHEN held its second annual conference around the theme of exploring intersectional identities through our labels. This year, we welcomed over 100 women from over 20 different universities around the UK, who set about embarking on journeys of self-exploration as we all attempted to demystify the concept of labels, both those that are given to us by others and the ones that we give to ourselves.
Labels - which ones do I want to own?
The conference opened with a video of women, including many of the WHEN volunteers, confidently sharing some of the labels that people had given to...
Do we own our labels? A summary of WHEN member reflections
How I see myself versus how others see me – Is it all about labels we receive or give, coming to know who we are or are supposed to be, or is it more about leveraging these labels to fight back against stereotypes?
By Dr Susi Poli
In a short survey run in recent months, we asked WHEN members to have a say on the common practice of labelling others at first sight, in the workplace and out of it.
The purpose has been to map the variety of labels to check them against women’s consciousness of how others see them and of how they see themselves. What do these labels have to say, do they match our perception of how others see us or are they simply the trigger for our...
