With one year to run this pilot project we have some specific activities we plan to carry out. They are mostly aimed at staff at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) at Lund University, sometimes including our close academic networks and sometimes – as with this blog and the coming questionnaire – having a wider target group.
This is what we’ll be doing:
- Give two presentations on topics related to menopause for all staff at CEC. The first presentation in September 2024 explores physiological changes that occur during perimenopause and menopause, and how hormonal fluctuations can impact a woman’s health and well-being well beyond her reproductive cycle. The second presentation in the spring of 2025 looks at how menopause affects the workplace, what support is available at LU, what can be improved and where lessons can be learned from other workplaces.
- We’re putting our money where our mouths are and doing 30-minute strength training sessions at Gerdahallen, starting 4 October. With fellow female colleagues at CEC aged 40+, Åsa will lead these sessions with appropriate strength training exercises for five weeks. One group trains in the fall and another in the spring. We will use our health promotion hour (Friskvårdstimme) to do so.
- Writing this blog
- Administering a questionnaire to female employees at LU aged 45+ to identify good practices from the workplace and where improvements are needed.
- Liaising with Occupational Health Service (Företagshälsovården), Human Resources, and other units at LU centrally with our findings in an effort to support the normalizing of menopause at the university.