About
About Women-Space
Women-Space provides high impact support for women working in universities. We specialise in executive leadership development, growth strategies, and personalised mentoring for women navigating transitions, challenges, and career pivots. Whether you're seeking strategic support, transition coaching, or are striving to maintain your values in challenging environments, our approach offers clarity, emotional intelligence, and confidence.
We create reflective space for you to build self-leadership habits, overcome imposter syndrome, and lead with resilience. With a focus on leadership clarity, building an executive mindset, and midlife career transitions, Women-Space is your growth partner for building a sustainable and authentic leadership path.
Founded by Professor Christina Hughes, who brings a wealth of experience of higher education, Women-Space also has the support of a unique cadre of Associates and Ambassadors drawn from across the globe. Their contributions create a powerful network of knowledge and experience that is here to support your needs.
About Professor Christina Hughes
Named as a “Woman of Influence 2023” in Baroness Sandy Verma’s annual list Christina has executive leadership experience in both research and teaching intensive universities having been Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Warwick, Provost, Sheffield Hallam University and Interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Kent. She is also an internationally leading feminist educator and researcher with over 15 books to her name with a £1.6m achievement in external research grant capture.
Throughout her career Christina has mentored and coached many women, and men, at all levels of university life. She holds ILM Level 7 qualification in Executive Coaching and Mentoring, is an accredited StrengthsProfile coach and a member of the Institute of Learning and Management.
Christina is a Visiting Professor at Coventry University and an Honorary Professor at the University of Kent. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the Warwick International Higher Education Academy which she set up; a lifetime fellow of the Gender and Education Association in recognition of her role as inaugural co-chair; and external advisor for EDI for the Association of British Chinese Professors. Christina has also been a Governor at Leeds Beckett University; a Trustee for Villiers Park Educational Trust and a Trustee for the Royal Society of the Arts Academies.
Women-Space Ethos
Underpinning all services is a recognition that, when it comes to your career trajectory, gender matters. We still have a lot of work to do to create a more equal society. We will work with you to help you navigate the challenges that women can face when trying to progress in higher education, equipping you to overcome these challenges and break down barriers.
Alongside this, we strongly believe that having a voice is the route to empowerment. More specifically, your voice. One of the most important gifts we can be given is that of being attentively listened to. Being heard.
It’s only when you talk, and we mean really talk, that you discover what’s lying deep inside. It could be dormant, or simply quashed by the demands of everyday life, so we help to bring it to the surface and address it.
In a safe and confidential environment, Women-Space enables you to voice your concerns and worries, your hopes and dreams, your successes and challenges, your fears and ambitions, and even your irritations.
Being listened to and being heard is sometimes all you really need to get back that clarity, passion, and commitment for the important work that you do.
Women Space endeavors to create a more caring, compassionate, and inclusive environment in which to work, teach, and learn with dignity and respect, always.
