Team Brief

The official podcast for the Academic Collaborative for Equality and Inclusivity in Surgery (ACEIS) UK. Short interactions focused on workplace challenges that affect the surgical profession; also attempts to navigate complex issues that act as barriers to equity and inclusivity in society as a whole; this podcast seeks to inspire its listeners to start their own conversations within their own native environments, thereby fostering much needed change for the better.

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Team Brief

The road to utopia

March 12, 2023 • ACEIS UK • Season 1 • Episode 5

Show notes

Listen to Miss Ginny Bowbrick and Miss Catherine Rennie discuss getting by day to day as a female Consultant Surgeon; on self-doubt and un-titling; on gendered language & disparities in tolerance; on pejoratives typically assigned to the woman in surgery and what constitutes a utopia for women in the workplace.

Episode collaborators:

Miss Ginny Bowbrick - Consultant Vascular Surgeon. Chair of Vascular SAC. Head of School of Surgery KSS. Clinical Lead Professional Passport at the RCSEng and Chair of Pride in Surgery Forum (PRISM) RCSEng

Miss Catherine Rennie - Consultant Rhinology, Anterior Skull Base Surgeon, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. UK.

Miss Ekpemi Irune - Consultant Laryngology, Head & Neck Surgeon, Cambridge, UK.

Founder of ACEIS UK

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Team Brief is the official podcast of the Academic Collaborative for Equality and Inclusivity in Surgery (ACEIS) UK

This maiden series is an ode to the International Women’s Day celebrations 2023. We remind ourselves of some of the progress made but we do not lose sight of the deficiencies and the devastating global impact of gender inequity

About ACEIS UK:

The Collaborative consists of a group of cross-specialty surgeons and expert advisers with a single interest: to highlight the true extent of the challenges of equality, inclusivity and their associated impacts in the surgical profession by leveraging data. Our role is to identify and report data from the frontlines of the surgical working environment; to provide an opportunity for individualised stories to be shared; to present all data to the surgical community without the burden of political or other influences in a transparent manner; to develop change strategies suitable for adoption in the workplace; to apprise other professional bodies and organisations with coherent data that can inform appropriate policies and procedures to tackle these challenges; to highlight positive and negative aspects of systemic workplace issues

Get in touch: To stay abreast of our activities as a think-tank, to share comments and/or ideas including collaboration opportunities then please contact us via our website www.ACEIS.uk or by email: admin@aceis.uk

You can also follow us on Twitter @aceisUK

Created, Produced and Directed by Ekpemi Irune @ENTmimi