An action learning set is a closed group of no more than 8 people who commit to meeting together across one year for personal and professional development.
Informal safe space for PSA network organisation employees to find support through connection and community.
Informal safe space for PSA network organisation employees to find support through connection and community.
Informal safe space for PSA network organisation employees to find support through connection and community.
Informal safe space for PSA network organisation employees to find support through connection and community.
Informal safe space for PSA network organisation employees to find support through connection and community.
Informal safe space for PSA network organisation employees to find support through connection and community.
Please join us for our inaugural 2025 quarterly keynote session, which will focus on exploring and understanding lesser-known queer identities, such as aromantic, asexual and agender which are all encompassed within the ‘A’ of LGBTQAI+ acronym. The event will feature keynote speakers Sarah Cosgriff (she/they) and Kate Holmes (add pronouns), who will share insights from their expertise and lived experiences.
Holiday periods, regardless of when they happen throughout the year, are often marked with an increase in activities and gatherings with work colleagues, family and friends which can often negatively impact mental health, particularly for LGBTQ+ people. The aim of the session is to provide practical support for our mental health and wellbeing during these times.
These events are open to anyone within PSA organisations who are network leaders or support network leaders and want to be part of learning and building community together.
This November 18th is LGBTQIA+ STEMM Day 2024. QueersInScience, Proud Science Alliance APAC, AstraZeneca & Bio21 partner to bring you what is set to be an amazing LGBTQIA+ STEMM Day seminar and networking event.
Join us for a special event focused exclusively on the lived experience of people who are part of the transgender community to help raise awareness of what is means to live out loud as a trans person.
Save the date for a number of activities surrounding Pride in London on 29 June 2024!
We all come with multiple facets to our identity, and we will highlight intersectionality as important to understand and embrace in the STEM sector. At the centre of the event will be a dynamic panel discussion meant to educate, inspire and even provoke all those attending so everyone walks away with a greater appreciation for intersectionality in the queer community and what it means practically in places we work, innovate and connect. There will be space to talk and connect with others at the event venue before we begin and after the panel discussion.
Join us for the first Proud Science Alliance day-long conference, live in person on 22 May 2024. You can expect a keynote speaker, mini workshops and a panel discussion all meant to inspire, build knowledge and even provoke conversation around how we continue to raise the bar on LGBTQ+ inclusion within our life science and healthcare organisations and the sector as a whole. There will be space to meet others across the sector to create connections and build relationships.
The purpose of the event is to focus attention on the experience of queer men and those with male bodies from a professional and health perspective as they age. The aim is to provide practical and supportive advice and point people to resources to go deeper into relevant topics discussed. We will focus little on sexual health because there are plenty of amazing resources available on this topic, instead focusing almost purely on the aging of the anatomy and physiology of the male body as it ages, and how those with male bodies can best support and maintain good health.
The focus of this session is on gender identity and how individuals express their gender.
Unleash your authenticity at the Pharma Mini Career Event by myGwork and Proud Science Alliance—support colleagues in new career journeys and fast-track your dream job at the speed recruitment session!
11 am -12 pm GMT: Supporting Your Colleagues in Their New Career Journey >> Sign up here
12.30 pm - 1.30 pm GMT: Turning the Page: Designing a Successful Career Transition (Workshop) >> Sign up here
2 pm - 3 pm GMT: Fast Track Your Career - Speed Recruitment Experience >> Sign up here
Proud Crick are delighted to present our LGBTQ+ networking symposium on 21st February 2024. We would like to invite LGBTQ+ networks from universities and scientific organisations in and surrounding London to join us in an evening of talks, diversity, and networking. February marks LGBTQ+ history month, and the theme this year is Medicine. In this vein, we invite you to join us to consider the past and future progressions in LGBTQ+ diversity in science, healthcare, and medicine.
This event is organised by Proud Crick. The event is proudly sponsored by the Francis Crick Institute, which kindly provided the event space and refreshments, and the Proud Science Alliance, which kindly provided funding for our speakers. We also want to thank our other event collaborators UCL, Imperial, Kings, Positive East, BSI and Springer Nature
Please register here for your free ticket: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lgbtq-in-stem-networking-symposium-tickets-790045245597
The focus of this session is to create a deeper understanding of the contextual and historical experience of LGBTQ+ people with a focus on science and medicine. The aim is to help build an understanding of how being queer is not new, but how the LGBTQ+ narrative and experience has often been discounted and erased. The talk will include content on the queer historical narrative through the lens of science/healthcare and how LGBTQ+ activism in the last few decades has started to reclaim the queer narrative globally.
Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the historical context of being queer as a way to understand more broadly ‘our’ history.
Attendees will better understand how queer history, like the histories of many communities of difference, has been discounted, discarded or erased; and understand the implications of these actions.
Attendees will gain some understanding of how the queer historical narrative has been impacted by the medical and scientific communities.
Attendees will better understand the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement as a backdrop to where we are today with LGBTQ+ equality.
Register here (PSA Network organisations can attend free using the PROMO CODE shared with you internally): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-look-into-our-lgbtq-history-tickets-798277658967
The Roundtable will feature three LGBTQ+ parents who can share from their lived experience what it was like to bring children into their families - Phill Weaver, Stephen Ingham and another parent.
Register on Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lgbtq-parenting-roundtable-tickets-735578985547?aff=oddtdtcreator (if you work for a PSA network organisation, use code PSANetwork to register for free)
Who should attend: those who are part of the LGBTQ+ community who want practical advice about what it’s like to start a family; others who want to support LGBTQ+ people who want to start a family, particularly managers
Purpose: The purpose of the roundtable is to provide practical knowledge and advice from those who are part of the LGBTQ+ community and have started families.
Summary: This roundtable will be a facilitated but relatively informal conversation with three parents who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community. They will openly share about their journey to becoming a parent, providing insight and practical advice to those who may be considering doing the same. Whether you are starting to think about becoming a parent, have already started the journey yourself or want to support someone who is considering or is starting a family, expect to gain awareness and understanding of what to expect.
Expected outcomes:
Gain insight into different experiences of starting a family as LGBTQ+ people through the ‘lived experience’ story telling of panel members.
Gain practical advice about how to start a family as an LGBTQ+ person with insights into the ups and downs, considerations required and practical steps you may need to take.
Better understand how to support LGBTQ+ colleagues/direct reports who may be going through the process to start a family.
The PSA will be joining with partners, InterEngineering and Pride in STEM, to host a post Pride in London march social event in central London. We are excited to welcome speakers and support an opportunity to network and connect across our organisations on a day of remembrance, celebration and protest.
PSA Network organisations will join together as part of the Pride in London march. We will have a few organisations in the march. The Proud Science Alliance will be marching as an organisation for the first time. If you see us, please shout and support us!
This session will focus on how to build and support an effective ally programme in your organisation with some content aimed at how to be an effective LGBTQ+ ally. More details coming soon.
An invited guest will provide a mini-workshop to support PSA network organisations who want to submit to the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index. More details coming soon.
Who should attend: leaders or aspiring leaders, particularly those who are leading or supporting their internal LGBTQ+ employee network.
Register online here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/leadership-communication-mini-workshop-tickets-566267911567
Purpose: The mini workshop aims to provide practical support and advice for leaders to build confidence in speaking internally, effectively interact and influence others at all levels of an organisation and speaking and advocating externally at meetings and conferences.
Objectives:
Create strong awareness and some understanding of practical communication and engagement practices important for those in LGBTQ+ employee network leadership and support positions.
Build confidence in speaking with individuals and leaders at any level of an organisation.
Build confidence in advocating for others as an internal employee network leader (or aspiring leader) and when invited to participate as a speaker or panellist in external meetings and conferences.
Agenda Outline
Intros and open
Role of the leader and advocate, bringing in the unique characteristics of someone who is leading and advocating in the LGBTQ+ space
We will touch on the concept of leadership brand and presence – how you show up and are ‘seen’
We will discuss breaking down barriers, both in stereotypes and how organisations see the role of the leader
We will discuss the difference between a leader and a role model
We will touch on how to own your story and use it effectively as part of your how you lead
Practical advice and scenarios
Open space for questions
Close
If you are curious to better understand gender identity and expression, this session is for you. The focus of this session is on gender identity and how individuals express their gender. This will include some scientific content as well as historical and current context. We will include some practical tips and advice about things like use of pronouns. Open space will be included to allow questions to be asked in a safe environment.
Attendees will have a deeper understanding of gender identity, expression and presentation and how this is different from sexual orientation.
Attendees will have more confidence in their own understanding of gender and in their interactions with others across the gender spectrum.
Register on Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-gender-identity-and-expression-tickets-523625817917
We’re hosting a new event, and we’d love to see you there. Join us for PSA Pride in London Afterparty on 2 July 2022 at 17:30. There will be live music and a drag show!
Purchase your tickets now as space is limited!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/psa-pride-in-london-afterparty-tickets-361712962207
We look forward to seeing you there and sharing an evening of fun and Pride!
Tickets are £10, with a limit of 2 tickets per person. Plus One name must be confirmed at time of purchase. Ticket price includes entry, a free drink and service fees. Tickets are currently available only to employees of PSA member organizations.
Would you like to learn more about it means to be an Ally and how our Workplaces and Colleagues can support the LGBTQ+ community as Allies? Hear from PSA members on what it means to stand up and be an Ally to the LGBTQ+ community. We will share some useful advice and tools that we’ve leveraged in our own Employee Resource Groups, as well as personal experiences of what is has meant to be an Ally or to have Allies around us as LGBTQ+ people.
More information to come soon.
Finding leadership gold at the end of your rainbow
The Proud Science Alliance is sponsoring a series of virtual sessions that will focus on the leadership experience of people who identify as LGBTQ+. The session facilitators aim to build confidence in attendees’ leadership approach and capability while also building confidence to integrate their LGBTQ+ identity as part of their leadership brand.
Leadership Series Summary Overview
The leadership series is a set of four virtual sessions specifically created for employees in the healthcare and life sciences sector who identify as LGBTQ+ and want to focus on their leadership approach and capability. None of the sessions aim to replicate leadership training available to many of us inside our organisations, but instead compliment what you might gain from those and other formal leadership courses. Because the LGBT+ experience at work is often different, even when it comes to leadership, we wanted to acknowledge this and create space to address it in a very practical way. Sessions will be designed and facilitated by a team from the Proud Science Alliance and will feature invited guests.
Session Summary
We will explore some concepts such as role modelling and leading from the front, middle and behind. We will talk about standing up for ourselves by owning our identity and how this contributes to our delivery and abilities.
Projected Outcomes
Attendees understand what a role model is and decide for themselves if they want to actively step into that role with their understanding of what it means. Attendees understand what it means to both stand up (state an opinion, speak out) and stand out (take action, lead) and decide for themselves how they want to do both of these things.
Register: Eventbrite.
An Evening with Divina de Campo on 24th June starts with a panel Q&A with Divina at 5pm followed by Drag Bingo! at 6pm.
There are 2 zoom links in the invitation (one for the panel and one for the Bingo).
*Part 1 (Q&A) join at 5PM
https://astrazeneca.zoom.us/j/91638488673?pwd=NHdLRjJlc09HK3hkZ0xRTWkrTE1nZz09
Password 689818
*Part 2 (Drag Bingo) join at 6PM
https://astrazeneca.zoom.us/j/92185936277?pwd=dndHd0VpdkJuS09xMmdVWjZMYnRnZz09
Password 184753
Finding leadership gold at the end of your rainbow
The Proud Science Alliance is sponsoring a series of virtual sessions that will focus on the leadership experience of people who identify as LGBTQ+. The session facilitators aim to build confidence in attendees’ leadership approach and capability while also building confidence to integrate their LGBTQ+ identity as part of their leadership brand.
Leadership Series Summary Overview
The leadership series is a set of four virtual sessions specifically created for employees in the healthcare and life sciences sector who identify as LGBTQ+ and want to focus on their leadership approach and capability. None of the sessions aim to replicate leadership training available to many of us inside our organisations, but instead compliment what you might gain from those and other formal leadership courses. Because the LGBT+ experience at work is often different, even when it comes to leadership, we wanted to acknowledge this and create space to address it in a very practical way. Sessions will be designed and facilitated by a team from the Proud Science Alliance and will feature invited guests.
Session Summary
How do you navigate an environment that values leadership characteristics predicated on the straight, white cis-gendered male archetype? This session explores the concept of support and how to ensure you ask for and get the support you need on your leadership journey. These can be members of the LGBT+ community or allies - whoever will stand beside you and support you.
Projected Outcomes
Attendees are aware of how a certain norm has been applied to leadership, generally speaking. Attendees come away understanding practical ways they can stand in their power as leaders as they navigate their career path in a way that feels comfortable to them. Attendees understand the value of thoughtfully gathering people around them who are supportive and helpful. Attendees gain some practical tips for how they can build their support community and agree some actions they want to take personally.
Register: Eventbrite.
This event is a panel discussion between two trans speakers from the Sparkle transgender charity and speakers from the healthcare and life sciences sector who identify as trans. They will be talking around subjects of trans visibility, gender binary pressures, other trans issues, COVID-19 impacts and allyship, looking to build awareness and understanding both for the trans community and for trans allies.
https://astrazeneca.zoom.us/j/98552375103?pwd=TVNFMmUvbk5EMkZzTVdQMXkyYXhQZz09
Password: 411408
Finding leadership gold at the end of your rainbow
The Proud Science Alliance is sponsoring a series of virtual sessions that will focus on the leadership experience of people who identify as LGBTQ+. The session facilitators aim to build confidence in attendees’ leadership approach and capability while also building confidence to integrate their LGBTQ+ identity as part of their leadership brand.
Leadership Series Summary Overview
The leadership series is a set of four virtual sessions specifically created for employees in the healthcare and life sciences sector who identify as LGBTQ+ and want to focus on their leadership approach and capability. None of the sessions aim to replicate leadership training available to many of us inside our organisations, but instead compliment what you might gain from those and other formal leadership courses. Because the LGBT+ experience at work is often different, even when it comes to leadership, we wanted to acknowledge this and create space to address it in a very practical way. Sessions will be designed and facilitated by a team from the Proud Science Alliance and will feature invited guests.
Session Summary
Focus on the individual - we are worthy as human beings just as we are and our experience is valid. We will explore how we can look to self and our community for validation as individuals and leaders. We will explore what we want to be known for, focusing on accepting self as a leader while also embracing and honouring our LGBTQ+ identity.
Projected Outcomes
Attendees understand that leadership really does start with 'self' rather than a prescriptive framework into which everyone must fit. Attendees come away with some practical advice and even exercises they can do to build confidence in themselves as individuals and as leaders. Attendees understand the concept of leadership brand and how to explore this and even document this for themselves.
Register: Eventbrite.
Finding leadership gold at the end of your rainbow
The Proud Science Alliance is sponsoring a series of virtual sessions that will focus on the leadership experience of people who identify as LGBTQ+. The session facilitators aim to build confidence in attendees’ leadership approach and capability while also building confidence to integrate their LGBTQ+ identity as part of their leadership brand.
Leadership Series Summary Overview
The leadership series is a set of four virtual sessions specifically created for employees in the healthcare and life sciences sector who identify as LGBTQ+ and want to focus on their leadership approach and capability. None of the sessions aim to replicate leadership training available to many of us inside our organisations, but instead compliment what you might gain from those and other formal leadership courses. Because the LGBT+ experience at work is often different, even when it comes to leadership, we wanted to acknowledge this and create space to address it in a very practical way. Sessions will be designed and facilitated by a team from the Proud Science Alliance and will feature invited guests.
Session Summary
We will introduce the series with some summary content before spending most of the time at the session hearing leadership stories from a panel to gain inspiration for our own leadership journeys.
Projected Outcomes
Attendees gain understanding of leadership through the stories of others and hopefully feel inspired for their own leadership journey.
Register: Eventbrite.
