Getting Literate - what we can be and could be better · Swimming with sharks. Or self-sacrificing...
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Getting Literate - what we can be
and could be better
Jill Manthorpe
King’s College London
@scwru
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This session covers…
… aspects of human services work that
women are often good at and some which
they often ignore or feel anxious about.
Participants' experiences will (hopefully…
surely) inform the group discussions
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Swimming with sharks
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Or self-sacrificing prisoners of love?
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Human services literacy
• Vocation + altruism
• Career opportunities
• Skills development
• Local work
• Practical appeal
• Demand
• Appreciation
Do you think
you are useful?
Could you be
replaced by a
robot?
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Literary literacy
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Administrative literacy
Understanding
workplace systems;
Underestimated;
Who does what & why;
And the wider context;
What seems to help?
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Economic literacy
• Following the money
• Does it matter?
• How to pick it up
• Leaving it to others
• Current examples –
– Change to business rates
– Is the NHS in deficit?
– What is a STP?
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Organisational literacy
• Holding
organisational
memory
• Reputation (what
others say about it)
• Values – declared
and implicit
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Research literacy (receptiveness)
In human services research
– Increasingly room for women
– Researchers want to involve
practitioners – they need you
more than you need them
– Ask them directly
– The internet of things – like
research
– Know trusted sources
– Don’t get trapped in female silo
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Mentors Sponsors
Skill you up Move you up
Leadership literacy
(see leadership foundation for higher ed)
Mentors
• Skill you up
• Talk with you
• Buff up your confidence
• Focus is on development
• Nurture you
Sponsors (see next ppt)
• Move you up
• Talk about you
• Buffer you against risk
• Focus is on leverage
• Advocate for you
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Athena Swan – cultural and system change
http://www.ecu.ac.uk
/equality-
charters/athena-
swan/about-athena-
swan/
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Three Group Discussion Points 1
What we’ve learned
about speaking up,
being seen, and
being heard
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2 …
What we’ve
Learned about not
‘walking by’ when
seeing, hearing or
sensing female
putdowns
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3
What we’ve learned
about people who
pull the ladder up
behind them – and
how to challenge
this
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Thanks for listening
The Social Care Workforce Research Unit receives funding from the
Department of Health but the views expressed are those of the
presenter.