Parenting Out Loud: Normalising Equal Parenting in 2024


It is also possible to attend this talk online via Zoom. For those attending in person, tea and coffee will be served from 10:30am.

On the heels of the University improving its paternity and partners leave entitlement – and leading the Russell Group – what else can we do at Oxford to encourage and normalise equal parenting?

The Equality and Diversity Unit is delighted to welcome Dr. Holly Birkett, Co-Director of the Equal Parenting Project at the University of Birmingham, to present the latest research on fatherhood and parenting in the UK, and what Oxford can learn from it.

She will be joined by a panel of advocates from across the University, including:

  • Tom Parnell, Director of Executive Diplomas, Said Business School
  • Joanne Mason, Head of Partnerships and People Strategy Lead, Human Resources
  • Benjamin Tendler, Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
  • Samuel Jones, Postdoctoral Researcher, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, and co-lead, WIMM Community of Parents and Carers

There will be ample time for discussion and questions for the panel.

Please join us ahead of the event, at 10.30, for tea and coffee.