The Professoriate: Recent Episodes
Olga Martin-Ortega
Professor Olga Martin-Ortega talks to women, and people who identify themselves as women, in academia about their lives and work; the choices and decisions they made to get where they are; the women who inspired them and how to empower women at earlier stages in their academic development. The Professoriate is the 'body of college and university teachers at an institution or in society'. In this podcast we focus on the voices of women, who have had less representation and whose experiences have been often neglected in senior academic bodies.
Professor Louise Owusu-Kwarteng is a Professor in Applied Sociology. She is also an Associate Dean and Director of Undergraduate Research in FLAS. Louise holds a PhD in the Sociology of Education (University of Greenwich), a PGCE (University of Greenwich), an MA in Social Policy (Oxford Brookes University) and a BA (Hons) in Sociology (University of East London).
Her research interests focus on race and educational experience, but with specific emphasis on West African groups; Sociological Autobiography and Ethnicity and identity. Louise also uses her academic knowledge and experience to raise awareness about rare illnesses, specifically Thrombotic Cytopenia Pupura, which is a rare blood disorder. More specifically, she has been involved in advising on inequalities around access to TTP treatment centres, and contributed to a UK Government White paper on rare illness in 2020. Moreover, she has participated in a range of workshops and seminars for AOFAC, a national charity, which specialises in research on this area. Furthermore she has worked closely with SANOFI, and in 2021, was the face of a global TTP campaign.
Louise is an external examiner for Sociology at Goldsmiths College and Teesside University.
Prior to working at the University of Greenwich, Louise taught English as a second language and managed ESL teachers in Madrid. Before that she was seconded to the Community Cohesion Unit where she contributed to political leadership policy. Louise also worked at Oxford City Council as a community development officer.
See https://www.gre.ac.uk/people/rep/las/louise-owusu-kwarteng.
Professor María J Arche is Professor in Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Research & Enterprise in Language (CREL). She obtained a PhD in Theoretical Linguistics & Language Acquisition under the supervision of Tim Stowell (University California Los Angeles) and Violeta Demonte (Autonomous University of Madrid). Based on her doctoral dissertation she published the monograph Individuals in Time: Tense, aspect and the individual/stage distinction, in the collection Linguistics Today, John Benjamins Publishing (Amsterdam/Philadelphia) in 2006.
She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southampton funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of California Los Angeles, Massachusetts Amherst, Groningen and Tromsø as well as part of several research projects. She is currently the Principal Investigator of an international team that has been awarded a theme-group fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
Her research falls within the syntax-semantics interface focusing on Tense, Aspect, Argument Structure and copular verbs. She has studied these topics in the grammar of Spanish and has also investigated their crosslinguistic variation and acquisition.
Recent works include the edition of a Special Issue for the journal Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Arche, M.J. (ed.) 2014. Aspect across languages: semantic primitives, morpho-syntactic representation and the limits of cross-linguistic variation and Arche, M.J.,A. Fábregas and R. Marín (eds.) 2019. The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages, published by Oxford University Press in its collection of Theoretical Linguistics. These works comprise both extensive empirical data (from 17 and 12 languages respectively) and detailed theoretical analyses with consequences that go beyond the main topics of the works.
Professor Wallace was featured in the 100 Voices 100 Years celebrating 100 years of women in law at the University of Glasgow. Read her fascinating story here.
Rebecca is the author of the long standing International Law textbook (Sweet and Maxwell, 2020) today in its 9th edition. I had the honor and privilege to have joined Rebecca as a co-author.
Professor Denise Hawkes is Professor of Educational Economics and Head of the School of International Business and Economics. Prior to re-joining the Business School as Professor of Education Economics, Denise was Associate Professor in Education Economics at UCL Institute of Education serving as the EdD Programme Leader from 2013-2018 and the Academic Head for Research, Consultancy and Knowledge Transfer from 2017-2018 within the Centre for Doctoral Education. She has also held academic posts at: Centre for Longitudinal Studies and Queen Mary, University of London. Denise is an experienced PhD and EdD supervisor and has extensive experience teaching applied econometrics and secondary data analysis to students of many different education backgrounds and levels of study.
Denise has held research grants with ESRC, DfID and British Council as well as various local consultancy projects including Trust for London and the Federation for Industry Sector Skills and Standards. She has published widely, most significantly in: American Economic Review, Journal of the Royal Statistical Series A and London Review of Education. Her research has drawn interest of many outside of academic economics, including: Behavioural Insights Team in UK, Higher Education Commission in Pakistan, Ministry of Education in Georgia, BBC News, BBC Radio 4 and various national newspapers.
She is currently a Visiting Professor at UCL Institute of Education and has developed her research around postgraduate education transitions and the value of doctoral education.
In this episode I talk to Julia Martin-Ortega, Professor of Ecological Economics and Associate Director of water@leeds about her role in developing the understanding of the relationships of society and individuals with ecosystems, having been mentored by men and giving female academics a space to express not only their achievements but the efforts that it took to get there through the groundbreaking WaterWoman awards.
In this episode Professor of International Law, Olga Martin-Ortega, talks to Professor of Social Sciences Tracey Reynolds about her journey into research; 20 years working with migrant families, black communities and women; creative and participatory methods; the women how guided and inspired her; and what does it mean to be a Female Professor today.