The workshop offers time and space to discuss the challenges and opportunities for women in academia in African contexts. Participants from Ghana and other African countries will be accompanied by a professional coach through different modules that address the issues of how to build up efficient teams, how to deal with university hierarchies, how to address conflicts at the workplace, and how to proceed an academic career with multiple time constraints. The workshop explores professional relationships in academic practice.
The coaching aims at assisting participants to define their own working and leadership style, but also to consider how to adapt oneself to different contexts and challenges. The overarching purpose is to encourage early- and mid-career female academics in Ghana and other African countries to further build up their careers, to develop strategies for keeping a work-life-balance that allows for prospering in one’s research and academic work, and to become ready for taking up leadership positions and/or seizing other professional opportunities.
Established in 2003, Catholic University College of Ghana is a private higher education institution located in the large town of Sunyani (population range of 50,000-249,999 inhabitants), Brong-Ahafo. Officially accredited and/or recognized by the National Accreditation Board, Ghana (National Accreditation Board, Ghana), Catholic University College of Ghana (CUCG) is a coeducational higher education institution formally affiliated with the Christian-Catholic religion. Catholic University College of Ghana (CUCG) offers courses and programs leading to officially recognized higher education degrees such as bachelor degrees in several areas of study. See the uniRank degree levels and areas of study matrix below for further details.