 Welcome back to the SOS's International Women's Day feature where we are interviewing three candidates who were nominated by the SOS community for being inspirational women. Joined here today by Seiko, who has been nominated. So do you want to introduce yourself and how you came to work in the higher education sector and your time at SOS? Yes, thank you for the introduction. My name is Seiko Harumi. I'm currently teaching Japanese language at the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department. And I've been SOS for six years, but before coming to SOS I worked in different and the higher education sectors, both in UK and in Japan. Great. So you've been praised by everyone who nominated you for being able to create a really positive classroom environment. So how do you think you've managed to achieve that? Actually, I wanted to ask Gandhi what was the good with my teaching environment because obviously maybe not only for me but for everybody who started online this year was a challenge and it was really challenging time. I just basically did my best for a day and then sort of next day. So I just, my approach is just try to increase the engagement time with students and that's the one of the things that I try to aim it to achieve to aim. But I don't think I did anything that special. I mean, I know speaking from a student's perspective, it makes a whole lot of difference when lecturers are really putting in a lot of effort and making the classroom. It's nice to hear that your students have also got that. So as you know, this is for International Women's Day. So we have a couple of questions that are about womenhood. So the first one is what makes you feel most empowered as a woman? I don't know. I think this is quite the difficult question and I thought about it. I think when women are given opportunities to be very creative and when you are given a chance to have a freedom to explore lots of things, what you believe in, I think that gives you a lot of power to step forward. Did you always want to work as a professor in academia? Actually I started off my career as a secondary school teacher and then I was teaching in Japan and then but when I started teaching after several years I felt I wanted to study more so I came to UK. So I still remember my sort of the early years as international students who are walking around the Russell Square area with a suitcase and wasn't sure what's going to happen next. So have you faced any challenges in your career so far? And I think one of the challenges was when I moved from Japan to England. Even I was a student here as an international student working in the foreign country and in higher education success. I do go through all the process again because even I had some experience in Japan and I think obviously the practices are very different here so I think that process of building up for experience took quite a long time. So what would be your best advice to young women coming into university, particularly maybe you can speak from your experience as someone who's coming in as an international student? Maybe I think everybody has something you believe in and then in my case I was teaching for languages and I think in any case, no matter whether you are women or men or what kind of background, I think there is a time that you face some sort of difficulties and it can be your circumstances, it can be your personal and your problem but I think the best thing for me which worked is that you just continue and keep on trying. And so I just want to send the word to, if you have a choice to choose, which way to go, choose the one you can do, a challenge and something you want to do. That's great. Well, that seems like a good place to end it then. Thank you so much for being with us again. Thank you.