Join us for a dedicated Women’s Health Conference featuring 12 interactive workshops covering topics such as hormonal health, pelvic floor wellbeing, menopause and endometriosis. Throughout the day, attendees can explore sessions designed to empower, inform and support all aspects of women’s health. 

See below the 12 sessions that are available to book and their times below: 

1.Beyond the Pelvic Floor: Co-Producing Empowered Solutions for Pelvic Floor Health

9-11am - Room 4

This interactive workshop explores how pelvic floor health is understood, experienced, and supported. Through small-group discussion and creative activities, participants will identify key challenges and co-design practical, empowering solutions. A central outcome will be a collaboratively developed, accessible model explaining pelvic floor function and symptoms.

2. Feeling the Change: Understanding Menopause

9-10am Room 5 

A workshop that works to bridge connection between women experiencing menopause and students with the outcome of both parties working together to produce a solution. 

3. Speaking of hormones... Imagining and Building new ways of talking about womens hromonal experience through LEGO® Serious Play®

10 - 12 Room 2

Hormonal health shapes daily functioning, mental health, relationships, work, safety, and identity. Yet the conversations around it are often full of gaps, discomfort, or shame. This workshop uses the Lego Serious Play method to focus on women’s hormonal experiences across different stages of life, and how these experiences are spoken about, misunderstood, or silenced in everyday contexts for example with friends, partners, doctors, employers and in how we talk to ourselves.

4. Mindful Steroids: Building a Mental Health Navigator App

11am-1pm Room 4

Women are more likely to experience and report corticosteroid‑related mental health effects, yet these symptoms are often dismissed, misattributed, or missed entirely. In this workshop, we’ll collaborate to design a practical, empowering app prototype that supports women in monitoring their day‑to‑day mental health and strengthening communication with their care teams.

5. Gender-responsive, low-carbon transport, co-design Lab

11am - 1pm Room 5 

In this workshop we will explore the intersections of transport, climate, and women's health. Using Leeds as a case study we will work together to understand some of the barriers facing women when it comes to travelling sustainably, as well as some of the current gender inequities that are embeded in a sysem that's no longer fit for purpose. We co-create possible solutions to be presented to senior decision-makers.

6. Fear & Freedom: Reimagining Safer Spaces for Women in Leeds

1-3pm Room 4 

Women’s mental health and wellbeing are closely connected to how public spaces are designed and experienced. In Leeds city centre, elements such as lighting, visibility, crowd dynamics, and spatial layout influence women’s perceptions of safety, comfort, and belonging. The concept of the “paradox of fear” highlights how fear can both protect and restrict women’s freedom of movement, shaping their daily choices and participation in urban life.

7. Making Symptoms Visible: Co-Designing a Symptoms Communication Tool

1-2pm Room 5 

This co-design workshop explores how user-centred visual tools can support women with endometriosis in communicating symptoms during healthcare consultations. Participants will engage in guided creative activities to share experiences, generate ideas, and provide feedback on an early prototype designed to improve symptom reporting and understanding. The session contributes to an ongoing dissertation study focused on enhancing communication and patient empowerment in clinical encounters.

8. Building Strength That Fits: A Co-Design Workshop on Accessible Resistance Exercise for Postmenopausal Women

2-3pm Room 2

This workshop will aim to understand patterns of exercise behaviour among postmenopausal women and strategies to incorporate more feasible forms of resistance-based exercise into daily life.

9. Poster Session 

2-4:30pm Room 6 

Research poster presentations

10. Menopause or Menomystery? Making sense of symptoms, stories, and silence

3-4:30 pm Room 2

This workshop explores what menopause is, what causes it, and the wide‑ranging effects it can have on people of any age. Through three interactive activities, participants will unpack common misconceptions, reflect on how menopause affects everyday life, and co‑create practical solutions for more supportive environments at home, at work, and within the University of Leeds. The session is open to all genders and aims to foster greater awareness, empathy, and encourage inclusive conversations.

11. ADHD in Women: Underdiagnosis and Superpowers

3-5pm Room 5

Many women receive an ADHD diagnosis later in adulthood, often after years of being overlooked. This interactive workshop explores how ADHD symptoms can change over time, why women are frequently underdiagnosed, and how late diagnosis can affect self-understanding and wellbeing. The session uses a supportive, strengths-based approach to neurodiversity.

12. Escape Room Challenge: Discover Pelvic Floor Health

3-5pm Room 4

A light, engaging workshop where you learn about the pelvic floor by solving challenges, cracking clues, and getting creative