Gender Representation in UK Rehabilitation Medicine Conference Roles, 2000-2025

A 26-year analysis of gender representation in leadership and speaking roles at British Society for Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine conferences. The dataset contains records for 1,214 participants across 37 meetings, with gender determined for 83% of individuals. It was created by Laura Edwards and published under a CC-BY-4.0 license in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in gender representation for invited speakers and session chairs over a 26-year period.
• Compare conference participation rates against national workforce benchmarks for rehabilitation medicine.
• Assess the relationship between the proportion of female consultants and female representation in conference roles over time.

Strengths

• Covers a long time series of 26 years (2000-2025).
• Includes data from 37 conference meetings and 1,214 identified participants.
• Gender was determined for 83% of participants using multiple methods.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The data is contained in a 111.8 KB PDF file, suggesting a small, summary-level dataset rather than raw records.

Provenance

Source

Annual scientific meetings of the British Society for Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (BSPRM), United Kingdom.

Collection Method

Retrospective cross-sectional analysis of conference programmes.

Time Range

2000 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-19 05:38:44; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom