Women in OR & Analytics Network - past meetings archive

Previous Online Events

2022

Watch here 11 Oct 2022 - WORAN Land Lecture

watch here 21 July 2022 - Summer Lunchtime Social:Invisible Women

watch here 23 June 2022 -Exploring Gender Bias in the Operational Research and Analytics profession with systems thinking

watch here 19 May 2022 - WORAN / PA joint event - The gender pay-gap

watch here 28 April 2022 - Women making a difference with OR and analytics - Lightning Talks

watch here 17 March 2022 - Challenging everyday sexism at work

watch here 19 January 2022 - Science Communication for Operational Research

2021

Watch here 23 November 2021 - Mentoring in Practice

watch here 10 October 2021 - Annual Autumn Event: Light of the home, light of the business: the Filipina as an OR professional with Elise del Rosario

Watch here 26 August 2021 - OR for a better world: in 5 minutes

watch here 27 July 2021, 13.00 - 14.30 - Demystifying LinkedIn: How to build authentic connections

24 June 2021 - WORAN's joint meeting with Southern OR Group: “Serendipity: Reflections on my weird career” and “WORAN in the time of COVID

18 May 2021 - Reflections on the intersection of OR and public communication

watch here 26 April 2021 - WORAN Wikithon: Raising the profile of women in OR/analytics

watch here 15 March 2021 - Lightning talks and early careers

18 February 2021 - Living with imposter syndrome

Watch here 22 January 2021 - WOMEN: Stereotypes throughout life

2020

13 August 2021 - Lightning Talks: Fast and furious

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Recordings of all previous online WORAN events can be found on The OR Society's Youtube page.

'OR, Lockdown and You' - WORAN Online Event May 2020

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'Survive and Thrive': Our July online event

This event consisted of small-group discussions (maximum of 6 participants) addressing personal challenges and opportunities. Participants were able to bring their questions and issues to the table, for shared reflection and support.

Date: 15 July 2020

Time: 16:00 - 17:20

Topics included:

“Working and single parenthood” led by Frances O’Brien, Warwick Business School
“Living with imposter syndrome” led by Ruth Kaufman OBE, FORS, and former President of the OR Society
“Getting professional accreditation” led by Gavin Blackett, Executive Director, The OR Society
“Flexible working: keeping the good bits, losing the bad from the last three months” led by Suzanne Harrison FORS, Director of CORDA, BAe Systems
“What sort of mentoring scheme for WORAN?” led by Nadia Papamichael, University of Manchester

'Fast and Furious': August online event

This August event showcased women’s contribution to OR, consisting of 6 lightning talks from women representing much of the diversity of OR: senior, mid- and early-career, practitioner and academic, and a whole variety of methods and applications.

Date: 13 August 2020

Time: 16:00 - 17:20

OUR SPEAKERS

Theresa Chambers, Head of Energy and Security Analysis, BEIS
Deborah Lentle, Consultant, DecisionLab
Lucy Morgan, Lecturer, Management Science, Lancaster University
Jana Ries, Portsmouth University
Ramune Šabaniene, Head of Housing BI and Analytics, Danske Bank
Prof Maureen Meadows, Professor of Strategic Management at Coventry University