ECU’s Athena SWAN Charter Awards Ceremony November 2016 Great Hall, Imperial College London 19 July 2017 Equality Challenge Unit’s (ECU’s) Athena SWAN Charter was % established in 2005 to encourage and recognise commitment 69.8 to advancing the careers of women in science, technology, overall success rate engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM).

In May 2015 the Charter was expanded to recognise work % undertaken in arts, humanities, social sciences, business and 67.5 law (AHSSBL), and in professional and support roles, and for Introduction pre-May success rate trans staff and students. The Charter now recognises work undertaken to address gender equality more broadly, and % not just barriers to progression that affect women. 70.5 We are delighted to celebrate the 118 successful awards post-May success rate today. It is the culmination of many months work for institutions and departments, and for ECU as well. We held 44 assessment panels in total, and would like to thank the 209 118 panellists from across the sector for taking part. award winners Fourteen institutions and 104 departments have gained Athena SWAN awards this round. This is the third awards round where institutions and departments have been able to apply for recognition of their work in AHSSBL, alongside 83 STEMM disciplines, and we were delighted to see the number bronze awards of applications using the new criteria. There was a 70 per cent success rate using the new criteria, which is up from 62 per cent in the previous awards round.

34 We would to thank the Imperial College London for hosting silver awards this awards ceremony.

Dr Ruth Gilligan 1 Athena SWAN Manager gold awards Equality Challenge Unit 10.30 Registration, refreshments, networking and photos

11:00 Open, Sarah Dickinson Hyams Head of Equality Charters, Equality Challenge Unit

11:05 Welcome, Professor James Stirling Imperial College London Programme 11:20 David Ruebain Chief Executive, Equality Challenge Unit

11:30 Professor Helen Beebee Athena SWAN Patron

11:40 Institutional award presentations

12:15 Professor Susan Wray and Sally Middleton

12:30 Departmental award presentations

13:30 Lunch

14:25 Professor Judith Stephenson University College London

14:40 Sandra Brown Queen Mary University of London

14:55 Close, Sarah Dickinson Hyams Head of Equality Charters, Equality Challenge Unit

15:00 Depart Professor James Stirling Imperial College London

Professor James Stirling CBE FRS became the first Provost of Imperial College London in August 2013. Before joining Imperial, Professor Stirling was the head of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.

Speakers He completed an undergraduate degree in mathematics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating with first class honours in 1975 and obtained his PhD in theoretical particle physics in 1979. After conducting research globally he was appointed to a lectureship at Durham in 1986. He was promoted to senior lecturer in 1989, to reader in 1990 and to professor in mathematical sciences and physics in 1992. In 2000 Professor Stirling became the first director of the new Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) at Durham University.

From 2001 to 2003, he served as the first chair of the PPARC Science Committee. In 2005 Professor Stirling was appointed Pro-vice-chancellor for research at Durham University, a post which he held for three years before moving to Cambridge to take up the Jacksonian Professorship in September 2008. In recognition of his contribution to particle physics research he was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in May 1999 and in 2006 he was awarded a CBE in the New Year’s Honours list for services to science. He has been a member of the physics panel in two Research Assessment Exercises (2001 and 2008) and was deputy chair of the 2008 panel.

7 Professor Helen Beebee Professor Susan Wray Athena SWAN Patron University of Liverpool

Helen Beebee is Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the Professor Susan Wray is the University of Liverpool’s Director . She was director of the British of Athena SWAN. She has a long standing interest in gender Philosophical Association from 2007 to 2011, during which equality, and is enjoying working with colleagues throughout time she established the BPA and Society for Women in the institution to build on the excellent progress already Philosophy UK’s joint Committee for Women in Philosophy, made in this area. She is an expert in uterine physiology and which she co-chairs with Jenny Saul. In this role, she co- leads a group based at Liverpool Women’s Hospital authored, with Saul, a report, ‘The underrepresentation of researching problems associated with childbirth. She is women in philosophy in the UK’, in 2011; in 2014, the BPA and co-director of the Harris/Wellbeing of Women Centre for SWIP launched its ‘Good practice scheme’, aimed at Preterm Birth Research. encouraging philosophy departments, learned societies, and journal editorial boards to implement a range of measures to improve the representation of women.

Professor Beebee works primarily in metaphysics and has published widely on causality, freedom of the will, laws of nature and related topics. She is an honorary professor at the University of Sydney and, in 2015-16, president of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.

8 9 Sally Middleton Professor Judith Stephenson University of Liverpool University College London (UCL)

Sally Middleton is the University of Liverpool’s Gender Equality Judith Stephenson is the Margaret Pyke Professor of Sexual & Officer. She has worked in the university’s diversity and Reproductive Health at UCL, Programme Director for Maternal equality team since 2006 and was appointed to her current Health, UCL Partners (Academic Health Science Partnership) and role two years ago. Sally played a key role in developing the Honorary Consultant in Women’s Health at UCLH. university’s Silver Athena SWAN application and has supported six successful departmental applications. She has Judith’s research in sexual and reproductive health has changed provided departments with data, support and advice and policy and practice nationally and internationally, particularly in internal peer review via mock Athena SWAN panels made up relation to chlamydia screening. Her current research focus is on of staff who volunteer on the national Athena SWAN panels. improving use of contraception, how women plan and prepare for pregnancy and how early intervention can improve mother and child health across the life course.

She received the UCL prize for Leadership in Public Engagement in 2012, an NIHR Senior Investigator Award in 2014 and Women of Achievement in Healthcare from Women in the City, 2015.

10 11 Sandra Brown Queen Mary University of London

Sandra Brown is the Diversity and Inclusion Manager at Queen Mary University of London. An equality and diversity practitioner for over 20 years she has worked in the Home Office, advising ministers on equalities legislation and in the police service, to implement the recommendations from the Awards Macpherson Inquiry into the death of Stephen Lawrence. Her Universities and Research Institutes areas of interest and expertise include but are not limited to, gender, race and disability.

In 2012 she joined King’s College London and was instrumental in King’s efforts to receive external accreditation for work related to improving the representation of women in science (Athena SWAN Charter) and black and minority ethnic staff (Race Equality Charter) within senior positions.

Sandra is a school governor and is also a mentor for the Windsor Fellowship.

In the list of awards that follows, pre- and post-May 2015 awards can be distinguished by the logo displayed.

pre-May 2015 process post-May 2015 process

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Birkbeck, University of London Coventry University King’s College London University of Liverpool

Bronze Bronze Bronze Silver

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Good practice example: Use of personal Good practice example: ’Project rebalance’ Good practice example: Establishment of a Good practice example: The university circumstances form in promotions process. being used to significantly decrease the technical services network, and contribution ring-fenced a car park for use by staff with number of staff on fixed-term contracts. to the HEFCE-funded national consultation caring responsibilities. Birmingham City University project seeking to develop a career Bronze Cranfield University development framework for technicians. University of Stirling Bronze Bronze = Joined 2013 Leeds Beckett University = Joined 2014 Bronze = Joined 2011 Good practice example: ‘What’s Athena SWAN got to do with me?’ consultation Good practice example: The university has = Joined 2014 Good practice example: Aurora participants sessions to encourage male staff to actively established a research and innovation undertake an institutional project, for engage with the Athena SWAN Charter. office to provide additional support for Good practice example: Outreach activities example, running a conference on everyday researchers to understand their eligibility with intersectional objectives, including the sexism and research projects on gendered Canterbury Christ Church for external research funding, expectations Larkia summer programme for girls from research performance. University of the funding bodies and the best match a South Asian background. Bronze for research ideas to funding schemes. University of the Highlands Queen Mary University and Islands = Joined 2015 Heriot-Watt University of London Bronze Bronze Silver Good practice example: Development = Joined 2015 of Gender Identity policy, marking of = Joined 2005 = Joined 2005 Transgender Day of Remembrance and Good practice example: The use of remote establishment of Students’ Union Trans Good practice example: The university is Good practice example: Athena SWAN working technology and video‐conferencing Student Representative. considering the impact of pay and benefits Charter representatives attend promotion to increase participation at meetings and negotiations at the point of job offers. They meetings as independent observers. other events. City, University of London are looking at gender disparities and how Bronze the process can be made more transparent University of Aberdeen and fair. Bronze = Joined 2014 = Joined 2011 Good practice example: Plans to analyse data from module feedback to examine any Good practice example: The university gender biases. requires the convenor of an interview panel to complete a committee decision form which includes their comments on how the appointment has contributed to the diversity of the university.

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Aston University Cardiff Metropolitan University

School of Engineering Cardiff School of Sport and Applied Science Bronze Silver = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Bronze Good practice example: Partnerships with Good practice example: Ability for staff to Sport Wales and Sport Cardiff to promote use a staggered approach to transition to women in sport. Awards part-time and back to full-time work after Departments career breaks. Cardiff University School of Earth and Ocean Sciences Brunel University London Bronze Department of Life Sciences Bronze = University award level: Bronze

= University award level: Bronze Good practice example: Provision of bespoke training for staff and students, and Good practice example: A mothering room, a best practice guide for fieldtrip planning designed to provide an area for rest during and equality impact assessments. and after pregnancy, and also a comfortable, welcoming and hygienic environment for Durham University the expression and storage of milk. Department of Psychology Silver Cardiff Metropolitan University Cardiff School of Health Sciences = University award level: Bronze Bronze Good practice example: The department = University award level: Bronze declines to send representatives to institutional meetings starting at 8am, as these Good practice example: A personal are outside of their core hours (10am-4pm). integration plan is developed for staff returning from any extended period of Edinburgh Napier University absence, to permit adjustment to the School of Computing working environment. Bronze

In the list of awards that follows, pre- and post-May 2015 awards can be distinguished = University award level: Bronze by the logo displayed. Good practice example: The school’s centre for computing education research will conduct a study into the motivations for pre-May 2015 process post-May 2015 process women selecting computing courses.

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Edinburgh Napier University King’s College London Liverpool School Newcastle University

School of Engineering and Built Department of History of Tropical Medicine School of Agriculture,

Environment Bronze Faculty of Clinical Sciences Food & Rural Development Bronze and International Public Health Silver = University award level: Bronze Bronze = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Silver Good practice example: Addition of new = University award level: Bronze Good practice example: Consultation module topics to incorporate history of, Good practice example: Strategic review of focus groups clearly linked to the and historical scholarship by, women and Good practice example: Creation of a of postgraduate taught programmes to assess development of Athena SWAN action plan. underrepresented groups. childcare fund for staff utilising keeping in flexible delivery approaches for students with touch days, after the cost of arranging one-off caring responsibilities. Keele University King’s College London childcare was identified as a barrier to uptake. School of Computing and Analytical and Environmental Open University Mathematics Science Division Liverpool School Department of Mathematics Bronze Bronze of Tropical Medicine and Statistics Faculty of Biological Sciences Bronze = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Bronze Bronze = University award level: Bronze Good practice example: Equality and Good practice example: Development of a = University award level: Bronze diversity training for student ambassadors. feeder module to attract undergraduates to Good practice example: Interactive online postgraduate taught course. Good practice example: Development diagnostic quizzes which enable students to King’s College London of a comprehensive family-leave checklist make informed decisions on which module Institute of Pharmaceutical Lancaster University to guide conversations prior to leave to study and give constructive criticism and Sciences Department of Mathematics commencing. alerts tutors to areas in which individual Bronze and Statistics students may require additional support. Bronze Loughborough University = University award level: Bronze School of Architecture, Building Oxford Brookes University = University award level: Bronze and Civil Engineering Faculty of Technology, Design Good practice example: The institute has Bronze and Environment developed a career trajectory template to Good practice example: The annual Bronze assist staff and students in capturing and ‘Florence Nightingale Day’ which targets = University award level: Bronze structuring their development activities. female pupils in years 11 and above, = University award level: Bronze Staff are encouraged to routinely collect encouraging the students to consider Good practice example: A range of ‘evidence’ under set headings to facilitate careers in the mathematical sciences. interesting outreach activities, including the Good practice example: Designing a shared the PDR process. ‘lesson in a box’ which comprises a lesson spreadsheet to record examples of inclusive Lancaster University plan and activities for GCSE-level students. teaching, role models, gender-focused Department of Physics research, links with external organisations, Silver outreach activities and more.

= University award level: Bronze

Good practice example: Childcare funding for visitors to the department.

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Plymouth University Queen’s University Belfast Swansea University University College London

School of Geography, Earth and School of Mathematics and Physics College of Human Division of Medicine

Environmental Sciences Silver and Health Sciences Silver Bronze Silver = University award level: Silver = University award level: Silver = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Bronze Good practice example: Citation of research Good practice example: The division has Good practice example: Support network into the role of gender in student evaluations Good practice example: Joint committee implemented a promotions worksheet for for new lecturers. and monitoring of teaching evaluation scores chairs and shadowing to provide use within appraisals. The line manager for potential gender bias. opportunities to a wider range of staff works through the four promotions Plymouth University members, including part-time and junior staff. categories with their staff members to Peninsula Schools of Medicine Queen’s University Belfast ascertain strengths and weaknesses and to and Dentistry School of Nursing and Midwifery Ulster University develop strategies for strenghtening the Silver Silver School of Psychology weaknesses. Bronze = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Silver University College London = University award level: Bronze Institute for Women’s Health Good practice example: Crèche facilities Good practice example: Staff with a heavy Gold were offered at the faculty away day, which administrative workload are provided with a Good practice example: Postgraduate was well received by attendees. school-funded research assistant to support training days in response to requests = University award level: Silver their research or scholarly activity. from students to provide networking Queen Margaret University, opportunities and appropriate training. Good practice example: Promoting Edinburgh Sheffield Hallam University flexibility and job-sharing at senior Division of Nursing Department of the Natural Ulster University leadership positions; currently the Bronze and Built Environment School of Computing and directorship of the institute is shared Bronze Mathematics between two individuals. = University award level: Bronze Bronze = University award level: Bronze University College London Good practice example: Four divisional = University award level: Bronze Division of Psychology away days a year, which have Athena SWAN Good practice example: Collaboration with & Language Sciences integrated into the agenda of each away day. Barratt Developments PLC and Kier Group Good practice example: Range of student Silver PLC who actively promote increased female recruitment-focussed outreach activity. Queen Mary University participation in the industry. = University award level: Silver of London University College London School of Mathematical Sciences Department of Mathematics Good practice example: Co-founding Bronze Silver the Athena SWAN psychology national forum (ASPoN) which aims to provide = University award level: Silver = University award level: Silver a place for psychology departments in the UK and Ireland to identify common Good practice example: Conference Good practice example: A promotions challenges, disseminate and champion attendance childcare fund is available to staff committee, with three of the five being self- good practice, and coordinate efforts to and students. assessment team members, meets to review improve gender equality. all eligible staff.

20 Awards | Departments 21 University College London University of Aberdeen University of Cambridge University of Chester UCL Great Ormond Street Institute Rowett Institute of Nutrition Department of Engineering Department of Psychology of Child Health and Health Silver Bronze Silver Bronze = University award level: Silver = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Silver = University award level: Bronze Good practice example: Teaching duties Good practice example: The establishing Good practice example: Co-founding a Good practice example: The institute will published openly in the Department’s of a Janus Group, who will run six lunchtime women in leadership network which, in monitor the length of time staff spend at database. career transitions support sessions per year. addition to providing personal and career particular grades for any gender differences,

development support, offers opportunities to and encourage those at the top of their University of Cambridge University of Dundee shadow UCL senior management including grades to apply for promotion. Department of Zoology Schools of Dentistry, Medicine the provost, vice-provosts and deans. Silver and Nursing & Health Sciences University of Aberdeen Bronze University of Aberdeen School of Divinity, History = University award level: Silver School of Business and Philosophy = University award level: Bronze Bronze Bronze Good practice example: ‘Family friendly page’ on departmental website, advertising Good practice example: Accommodation = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Bronze policies and schemes, and featuring case provided free of charge for children and studies. carers at the annual away day. Good practice example: The trans inclusive Good practice example: The school has a staff survey. family friendly conference fund. University of Cambridge University of East Anglia Department of Veterinary Medicine School of Biological Sciences University of Aberdeen University of Aberdeen Bronze Silver Institute of Applied Health Sciences School of Law Bronze Bronze = University award level: Silver = University award level: Bronze

= University award level: Bronze = University award level: Bronze Good practice example: Improved Good practice example: “BIO did you know induction processes, including a pre-start that?” digital slides used to promote Athena Good practice example: All staff will be Good practice example: The school is induction pack, buddy scheme and welcome SWAN activities around the school. encouraged through the annual review trialling nine-day fortnights for professional lunch with the head of department. process to seek positions on internal and and support staff who are interested in this University of East Anglia

external committees which could benefit as a flexible working option. University of Cambridge School of Health Sciences their career. School of Clinical Medicine Bronze

University of Birmingham Silver School of Biosciences = University award level: Bronze Bronze = University award level: Silver Good practice example: All staff are offered = University award level: Bronze Good practice example: Piloting of the opportunity to become a member of a programmes that have been adopted committee, or to shadow a school role. Good practice example: ‘PERCAT’ a career university-wide, including the returning support network for PDRAs. carer’s scheme and the mental health programme.

22 Awards | Departments 23 University of East Anglia University of Essex University of Hertfordshire School of Pharmacy School of Literatures, School of Biological Sciences School of Education Bronze Languages & Cultures Bronze Bronze Bronze = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Silver Good practice example: Students within Good practice example: Postdoctoral Good practice example: Development the school established an ‘alternative Good practice example: Plans for targeted buddy system. of a strategic approach to their external pharmacy careers’ conference which was undergraduate recruitment workshops for speaker programme and acknowledgment advertised to and attended by a national prospective male applicants aged 14-16. University of Exeter of the various ways that such events can audience. Department of Geography perpetuate gender stereotypes. University of Edinburgh Silver University of Edinburgh School of Engineering University of Hull Business School Bronze = University award level: Bronze Faculty of Health and Social Care Bronze Bronze = University award level: Silver Good practice example: Creation of = University award level: Silver director of postdoctoral research position = University award level: Bronze Good practice example: PhD stipend with a defined remit to provide proactive, Good practice example: Committed including outreach. independent support. Good practice example: Establishment an additional £500,000 over four years of PoWER, a programme of events and to postgraduate research scholarships to University of Essex University of Glasgow training for 50 academic women across promote diversity in applications. Psychology Institute of Molecular, Cell & the university. Bronze Systems Biology University of Edinburgh Bronze University of Leicester Edinburgh College of Art = University award level: Bronze Department of Chemistry Bronze = University award level: Bronze Silver Good practice example: The introduction = University award level: Silver of academic career advisor roles for students Good practice example: The institute = University award level: Bronze at all stages interested in research careers. hosts a ‘meet the speaker’ sandwich lunch Good practice example: Consultation following the fortnightly research seminar Good practice example: Plans to add an with trans students and staff through a University of Essex which provides networking opportunities annual family fun day to the department’s confidential trans forum, with actions arising Department of History for postgraduate students and postdoctoral social activities as a result of increasing in relation to preferred pro nouns and Bronze researchers with external speakers. number of staff, PDRAs and PGRs having gender neutral toilets. young children. = University award level: Bronze University of Glasgow Institute of Cancer Sciences Good practice example: Consideration of Bronze a history module to disrupt idea that gender roles have been ‘fixed’. = University award level: Bronze

Good practice example: The institute ran a promotions workshop: all applicants in the subsequent promotion round were successful.

24 Awards | Departments 25 University of Leicester University of Liverpool University of Nottingham University of Oxford Department of Geology Institute of Translational Medicine School of Psychology Faculty of Law Bronze Silver Silver Bronze

= University award level: Bronze = University award level: Silver = University award level: Silver = University award level: Bronze

Good practice example: Commitment to Good practice example: All staff on fixed- Good practice example: Opportunities Good practice example: The faculty has holding meetings between 10am and 12pm, term contracts, irrespective of funder, receive offered for undergraduate and postgraduate sponsored six priority nursery places for staff protected by engagement with central the same maternity benefits, funded by the taught students to explore gender and which helps them to fast track the queue for timetabling. Institute. equality issues through Athena SWAN nursery places.

research internships.

University of Leicester University of Manchester University of Oxford

Department of Health Sciences School of Social Sciences University of Nottingham Mathematical Institute

Silver Bronze School of Chemistry Silver

Silver = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Silver Good practice example: Departmental Good practice example: Continuing to Good practice example: A weekly seminar staff published with the Vice-chancellor and review curriculum and develop inclusive Good practice example: Child care for job series for early career researchers, combining the ESRC an examination of the variations in learning strategies around gender and race interviewees can be covered. skills training and career development grant funding by gender. They also hosted equality. sessions with interdisciplinary mathematics a roundtable discussion on how universities University of Nottingham colloquia. and research councils should respond to University of Manchester School of Geography

gender bias in success rates. School of Law Silver University of Oxford

Bronze National Perinatal

University of Liverpool = University award level: Silver Epidemiology Unit

School of Physical Sciences = University award level: Bronze Silver Silver Good practice example: The school has Good practice example: The school has supported applicants to successfully apply = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Silver introduced an annual Christabel Pankhurst for Ann McLaren research fellowships for public lecture to celebrate the contributions women in STEM. Good practice example: A flexible working Good practice example: Establishment and successes of women. The inaugural policy was developed, in consultation with of a flexible working adviser who provides lecture was delivered by Shami Chakrabarti University of Nottingham staff, and training for line managers was informal advice to anyone in the department in February 2015. School of Computer Science provided. on where to find detailed information, and Bronze also on how to prepare for maternity and University of Manchester parental leave. School of Mathematics = University award level: Silver Bronze Good practice example: Women in = University award level: Bronze technology conference run by students.

Good practice example: ‘Who’s Who’ document, listing all committee members.

26 Awards | Departments 27 University of Oxford University of Reading University of Sheffield University of Southampton School of Geography School of Biological Sciences Department of Molecular Biology Faculty of Health Sciences and the Environment Bronze and Biotechnology Bronze Bronze Silver = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Silver = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Silver Good practice example: ‘Step-Up Good practice example: Establishment of Good practice example: Recruitment Mentoring Scheme’ linking biologists at Good practice example: Evaluations of a fixed-term contract forum to disseminate panels will have an unconscious bias every career stage to the one above and postdoctoral researchers are carried out by information and provide a safe space for staff representative to speak up on any issues. with targets for female uptake. an experienced member of academic staff to discuss issues that affect fixed-term staff. who is not their line manager. University of Oxford University of Reading

Department of Materials School of Psychology and Clinical University of Sheffield School of Physics & Astronomy

Bronze Language Sciences Department of Chemical Silver

Bronze & Biological Engineering = University award level: Bronze Silver = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Bronze Good practice example: The department = University award level: Silver Good practice example: Successfully supported a staff member to negotiate Good practice example: Evaluation of lobbied for institution-wide unconscious for their fellowship to be extended to keeping in touch days. Good practice example: The introduction bias training which led to the design and accommodate part-time working: believed of a scholarship specifically for female implementation of a new unconscious bias to be the first time this has been done. University of Salford postgraduate taughts students. Three training module by HR. School of Computing, Science and women were awarded scholarships in 2015. University of Oxford Engineering University of St Andrews Department of Plant Sciences Bronze University of Sheffield School of Medicine Bronze School of Clinical Dentistry Bronze = University award level: Bronze Bronze = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Bronze Good practice example: Academic staff = University award level: Silver Good practice example: Technical support without a PhD are encouraged to pursue Good practice example: As part of a for women on and returning from maternity research on a part-time basis and given time Good practice example: The school has review of the school’s promotion process, leave. off to help complete one. implemented a second reviewer system for a pre-promotion review committee was staff performance and development reviews. established to provide proactive support University of Portsmouth Having both a line manager and another to school staff applying to the university School of Computing representative allows for improved input for process. Bronze development and progression.

= University award level: Bronze

Good practice example: Anti-bullying and harassment training.

28 Awards | Departments 29 University of Strathclyde University of Warwick University of Warwick Department of Biomedical Department of Physics Warwick Mathematics Institute WMG Engineering Silver Bronze Bronze Bronze = University award level: Silver = University award level: Silver = University award level: Silver = University award level: Bronze Good practice example: Taking a group of Good practice example: A female tutor for Good practice example: A series of Good practice example: Development of sixth form girls to the XMaS beamline at the women is available to discuss personal or paid eight-week internships are used an equality and diversity impact assessment ESRF in Grenoble in 2015; the success of this course related issues. to encourage students to engage in for the refurbished building and temporary trip and the surrounding science promotion postgraduate courses in the department.

accommodation. in the schools unlocked Research Council University of Warwick

UK funding for repetitions in 2016 and 2017, Department of Chemistry University of York

University of Strathclyde which have started with a science gala on Silver Department of Electronic Department of Naval Architecture, campus. Engineering Ocean and Marine Engineering = University award level: Silver Bronze Bronze University of Warwick Department of Psychology Good practice example: Co-establishment = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Bronze Bronze of the Irène Joliot-Curie conference and involvement in the PLOTINA research Good practice example: Targeted outreach Good practice example: Equality and = University award level: Silver consortium. activities, with INSPIRE summer schools diversity online module for students. for female students, and staff and students Good practice example: Plans for a University of Warwick undertaking WISE’s ‘people like me’ training. University of Strathclyde maternity/adoption buddy scheme, with Department of Statistics Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy workload credit for buddies. Bronze and Biomedical Sciences Bronze University of Warwick = University award level: Silver Philosophy = University award level: Bronze Bronze Good practice example: The department will financially support childcare of Good practice example: SIPBS Researchers’ = University award level: Silver conference visitors and seminar speakers Athena SWAN award; a competitive £750 (initially on a case-by-case basis to gauge fund that can pay conference fees and/or Good practice example: The school demand). travel/accommodation/childcare costs for recognises that the university’s travel conferences or scientific exchange visits. insurance policy does not currently cover routine antenatal services, which can impact UWE, Bristol on the ability of women to travel for work at Applied Sciences points within their career. They are raising Bronze the issue with the university.

= University award level: Bronze

Good practice example: Infographics used to communicate survey responses.

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