The University of Cambridge has recognised the specific issues for women undergraduates in the Sciences. These women are in a significant minority and research showed that, when they left Cambridge, they often accepted jobs that did not fully stretch them. Dr Felicity Hunt and Dr Nancy Lane convened a steering group to address these issues and approached us to tailor the standard Springboard programme for these women.

Jenny Daisley from the Springboard Consultancy tailored the programme by:

conducting research inside the university consulting with the steering group rewriting all the materials to change vocabulary, references and emphasis adapting the content of the workshops adapting the process of the programme to take account of the short academic terms finding and editing new case studies and examples helping with a specialist evaluation system training and licensing University of Cambridge staff as trainers.

This specially adapted programme for undergraduates has been hugely successful for several years and has produced such good results that it was extended to include all women undergraduates. This meant tailoring the programme again to include issues for women undergraduates in the Arts.

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Starting with us devising and delivering a pilot workshop in Riga, organised by The British Council, this project progressed to 4 Latvian women being trained from scratch, firstly to become trainers and secondly to develop their own training materials. After they had developed experience of delivering the materials themselves, we devised a special course to train them to train other women as trainers. As a result, a national network of trainers is now in place in Latvia having grown from the 4 original pioneers.