The Fair List, UK is holding its annual awards event at the IATEFL conference in Brighton, UK. The date is Wednesday, April 11th 2018 and the time is 7-9 pm. (Please check the conference programme for the room number) Thanks to Greenall and Florent Books Ltd, there will be drinks and nibbles. Thank you, Simon and Jill!

Please come along to the get-together of the friends of the list. There will be a micro introduction to who and why we are and an update on our mentoring scheme, our new Facebook page and other news. You can find out who is […]

Over the summer I read a book called ‘Lab Girl’ and would highly recommend it. It is written by Hope Jahren. She is an American geochemist and geobiologist at the University of Oslo, known for her work using stable isotope analysis to analyse fossil forests dating to the Eocene. She has won many prestigious awards in the field, including the James B. Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union. Her book Lab Girl (2016) has been applauded as both “a personal memoir and a paean to the natural world” and a literary fusion of memoir and science writing. She has […]

Got a job interview coming up? About to give a plenary talk? According to Amy Cuddy’s TED Talk ‘Your body language shapes who you are’. Just two minutes in private just before the event can help your outcome.

Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how “power posing” — standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident — can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our chances for success. (Note: Some of the findings […]

This year, as I am not attending the IATEFL Glasgow conference in April, I have done things a bit differently. Instead of having a ‘do’ at the conference as we have in past years, I sent out by email congratulations and playful certificates to those on the list for January-December 2016. The list is here:

The following organisers were awarded The Fair List, UK certificate for events in the year January – December 2016:

Single events:
British Council for their Teaching English Success online conference
English UK for their Teachers’ conference
IATEFL/TESOL for their first ever joint web conference
International House for their AMT […]

The Fair List awards excellence in gender balance of plenary speakers and panelists at UK ELT events. So I was very interested to note a great stirring of interest in the whole business of fair representation on panels. Below are references to three interesting resources.

First I read the headline:

‘Only men at your event? This blog will shame you’
on BBC Trending in May of 2015.

I went on to read this…………

“How often have you looked around at a meeting or in the office, lecture hall or event space and seen a room full of just men?”

Now one website is pointing […]

Our annual awards event was held at the IATEFL Conference in Birmingham, UK on April 14th 2016. Thanks to all our supporters, we had billing in the IATEFL conference programme, a nice room, balloons, streamers and bunting galore, and drinks and nibbles. It was a cheerful occasion.

What happened?
I kicked off with a welcome and a very brief history of the list. In our first awards event, held in 2013, only 5 organisations made it onto the list for EFL events held in the UK, in the year before, with good gender balance of plenary/keynote speakers or panellists. In 2014 the […]

The Fair List has an annual awards and awareness raising event. This is usually held at the IATEFL international conference in the UK in the Spring of each year. We have the rich web site that you are currently reading. On it there is a useful webinar about giving a plenary talk. All of this is extremely helpful. But it might not always be enough to support a first time woman plenary/keynote speaker or panelist at a UK ELT event, So now, with the support of The British Council, we have started up a mentoring scheme.
You will find a […]