ECU’s Athena SWAN Charter Awards Ceremony April 2016 Mountford Hall, University of Liverpool 12 December 2016 Equality Challenge Unit’s Athena SWAN Charter was established in 2005 to encourage and recognise commitment 64% to advancing the careers of women in science, technology, 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 101 law (AHSSBL), and in professional and support roles, and for Introduction award winners 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. 73 We are delighted to celebrate the 101 successful awards bronze awards today. It is the culmination of many months work for institutions and departments, and for ECU as well. We held 43 assessment panels in total, and would like to thank the 26 204 panellists from across the sector for taking part. silver awards Eleven institutions, 86 departments and four research institutes have gained Athena SWAN awards this round. This is the second awards round where institutions and departments have been able to apply for recognition of 2 their work in AHSSBL, alongside STEMM disciplines, and we gold awards were delighted to see the number of applications using the new criteria. There was a 60 per cent success rate using the new criteria, which is up from 56 per cent in the previous awards round.

We would to thank the University of Liverpool for hosting this awards ceremony.

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

11:00 Open, Dr Ruth Gilligan Athena SWAN Manager, Equality Challenge Unit

11:05 Welcome, Professor Janet Beer Vice-chancellor, University of Liverpool Programme 11:20 David Ruebain Chief Executive, Equality Challenge Unit

11:30 Sir Paul Nurse Athena SWAN Patron

11:45 Institutional award presentations

12:15 Professor Dorothy Griffiths and Robert Bell

12:30 Departmental award presentations

13:30 Lunch

14:25 Professor Sara Mole University College London

14:40 Professor Aaron Maule Queen’s University Belfast

14:55 Close, Dr Ruth Gilligan Athena SWAN Manager, Equality Challenge Unit

15:00 Depart Professor Janet Beer Vice-chancellor, University of Liverpool

Professor Janet Beer took up her post as the Vice-chancellor of the University of Liverpool in 2015 after seven years as vice-chancellor of Oxford Brookes University.

Professor Beer is the chair of the board of Equality Challenge Speakers Unit. She is Vice-president of Universities UK, England and Northern Ireland, a board member of UCAS, a board member of the National Centre for Universities and Business, and a board member of the British Council.

Professor Beer has an established record of research in late nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature and culture, and contemporary Canadian women’s writing. She has published widely in these fields and most recently completed a study of the late writing of Edith Wharton.

7 Sir Paul Nurse Professor Sara Mole Athena SWAN Patron Athena SWAN Patron

Sir Paul Nurse is a geneticist and cell biologist who has Professor Sara Mole has researched at worked on how the eukaryotic cell cycle is controlled University College London for over 20 years. During this time and how cell shape and cell dimensions are determined. His she has been involved in identifying the underlying genes, major work has been on the cyclin dependent protein kinases learning about the biology and molecular basis of the disease and how they regulate cell reproduction. He is the Director and more recently has been working towards new drug and of the Francis Crick Institute in London, and has served as gene therapies. She founded the NCL Mutation and Patient president of the Royal Society, chief executive of Cancer Database in 1998 and later launched the website NCL Research UK and president of Rockefeller University. He Resource, a gateway to help those encountering Batten shared the 2001 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine and disease for the first time to have access to accurate has received the Albert Lasker award and the Royal Society’s information and expertise. Professor Mole is currently Royal and Copley medals. He was knighted in 1999, received coordinating an EU Horizon 2020 consortium ‘BATCure’ that the Legion d’honneur in 2003, and for 15 years was a member involves more than a dozen EU laboratories and a patient of the council for science and technology advising the prime organisation, with the aim of developing new therapies. She minister and cabinet over science and innovation issues. He is also senior editor of a book on Batten disease published by became a patron of Athena SWAN in 2015. .

Professor Mole became aware of Athena SWAN in 2007/2008 and she introduced it to her department as a scheme that would help them ensure that they were working fairly for all. They gained their first Silver award in 2009, renewed in 2012, and were successful for Gold in 2016. She has interacted with central UCL and with many departments throughout this time, promoting equity and gender equality however she can. This has included tweeting using the #simplygoodpractice hashtag.

8 9 Professor Dorothy Griffiths Robert Bell Imperial College London Imperial College London

Professor Dorothy (Dot) Griffiths has championed women in Rob Bell is the Athena SWAN Coordinator at Imperial College STEM for many years at Imperial College London and beyond. London. As an undergraduate he studied history at St John’s She has been involved in Athena SWAN activities at Imperial College, , before graduating and joining College London since the Charter’s inception. Prior to taking Imperial College London to work on Athena SWAN in 2010. After on her current role she was dean of the business school. Her an initial fixed-term contract, he has succeeded to a full-time, current role of Provost’s Envoy for Gender Equality gives her permanent role focusing on Athena SWAN as a member of responsibility for managing Athena SWAN actions across Imperial’s equality, diversity and inclusion centre (EDIC). Imperial College London. She was a founding editor of Feminist Review and now chairs the Feminist Review Trust. Rob played a key role in Imperial’s successful November 2012 and April 2016 Silver institutional applications. He has also been involved in nearly 30 departmental applications, providing data, support, and advice. He received Imperial’s Julia Higgins award in 2014 in recognition of his contributions to the support of academic women at Imperial College London.

Rob is an Athena SWAN panellist and chair, and has acted as a ‘critical friend’ for a number of other universities’ and departments’ Athena SWAN applications.

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Cardiff Metropolitan University Imperial College London Bronze University Award Silver University Award

= Joined 2012 = Joined 2005

Good practice example: As part of the Good practice example: Partnerships with corporate health and wellbeing strategy, the Gender Identity Research and Education managers receive training in how to manage Society (GIRES) and My Family Care. Awards stress in the workplace. Oxford Brookes University Universities and Research Institutes Diamond Light Source Ltd Bronze University Award Bronze Research Institute Award = Joined 2008 = Joined 2015 Good practice example: Development of Good practice example: Use of a flowchart five pathways for promotion to professor, to that illustrates all the points in the reflect staff contributions to university goals, recruitment process where there is potential with women now making up 42 per cent of for unconscious bias, and an action to the professoriate. provide unconscious bias training to all staff. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Earlham Institute Bronze Research Institute Award Bronze Research Institute Award = Joined 2015 = Joined 2015 Good practice example: Action plan delivery Good practice example: Case studies of embedded into the job descriptions of regius female bioinformaticians will be included keeper and the chief executive officer. on the website, to promote the field as conducive to flexible working. The Open University Bronze University Renewal Glasgow Caledonian University Bronze University Award = Joined 2012

= Joined 2011 Good practice example: The university In the list of awards that follows, pre- and post-May 2015 awards can be distinguished reimburses child-minding expenses where by the logo displayed. Good practice example: To ensure policies they are incurred through out-of-hours are effectively implemented, all line working. managers must complete a four-day ‘people passport’ development programme. Pre-may 2015 process Post-may 2015 process

Awards |Universities and Research Institutes 13 University of Brighton University of Southampton Bronze University Award Silver University Award

= Joined 2012 = Joined 2005

Good practice example: Adding ‘Mx’ titles to Good practice example: Development recruitment and staffing systems, which will of a policy to offer two weeks paid leave allow applicants and staff the option to select for carers to enable them to support a a gender-neutral title. dependant through a significant change, Awards such as moving, adapting a home, or a University of Glasgow change of care regime. Departments Bronze University Award University of Sussex = Joined 2011 Bronze University Renewal

Good practice example: Equality and = Joined 2011 diversity duties and responsibilities will be included in all job descriptions for senior Good practice example: The promotions academic positions. procedure has been amended to allow staff to declare personal circumstances. University of Leeds Bronze University Renewal Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Bronze Research Institute Renewal = Joined 2008 = Joined 2014 Good practice example: Women of achievement awards, which celebrate the Good practice example: Strong support contribution and impact of women staff and for PhD students, particularly maternity students across all disciplines and services. support, which includes six months leave on full stipend and the ‘clock stopped’ (study is University of Reading suspended until return from leave). Bronze University Renewal

= Joined 2007

Good practice example: The university In the list of awards that follows, pre- and post-May 2015 awards can be distinguished has agreed to reimburse the full cost of by the logo displayed. maternity and shared parental leave to constituent schools from a central fund. This also includes support dedicated specifically to aid return to work. Pre-may 2015 process Post-may 2015 process

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Bangor University Cardiff University Keele University King’s College London School of Environment, Natural School of Psychology School of Psychology Randall Division of Cell and

Resources and Geography Silver Bronze Renewal Molecular Biophysics Bronze Silver = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Bronze = University award held: Bronze Good practice example: Provision of a Good practice example: Writing workshops: Good practice example: The head of fully funded PhD student, research assistant an initiative led by early career female staff Good practice example: Creation of a school meets all staff before and after their support and/or equipment, and a deposit and supported by the school. peer mentoring scheme for postgraduate maternity leave, providing an opportunity to of £10,000 into the holding accounts of new researchers. discuss any issues and a re-induction. lecturing staff, along with an annual top up. King’s College London Division of Diabetes and Loughborough University Brunel University Imperial College London Nutritional Sciences School of Sport Exercise Department of Computer Science Business School Silver and Health Sciences Bronze Bronze Silver Renewal = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Bronze = University award level: Silver = University award held: Bronze Good practice example: Plans to highlight Good practice example: Thorough Good practice example: The school will flexible working through the inclusion of a Good practice example: A school workload analysis comparing lecturers extend the institutional Elsie Widdowson field on personal development review forms sponsorship-mentoring programme, and senior lecturers by gender and actions fellowship scheme, which supports the asking: “Do you feel you would benefit from which has garnered positive feedback to formalise the role-allocation; assign return to research following maternity increased flexible working beyond your from participants. more precise weighting to individual tasks or adoption leave. current arrangements?”

(including women in science activities) for Newcastle University

comparability, and define term of office for Imperial College London King’s College London Institute of Cellular Medicine named roles. Department of Mathematics Division of , Silver Renewal

Bronze Renewal Policy and Rehabilitation Cardiff University Silver = University award held: Silver School of Biosciences = University award level: Silver Silver = University award held: Bronze Good practice example: Open lab book; Good practice example: Appointment by support for PhD/MSc students through a = University award level: Bronze nomination has been utilised to appoint Good practice example: Introducing website that provides guides and videos on female staff on fixed-term contracts to a certificate and diploma in palliative experimental methods requested by students. Good practice example: All admissions lecturer posts. care for students wishing to study with tutors have received equality and diversity greater flexibility. Students have used training specifically tailored to admission this alternative approach to access core processes. and optional modules within the MSc curriculum, achieve credits, and then later progress towards a full MSc.

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Newcastle University Queen’s University Belfast Queen’s University Belfast Royal Holloway, University

School of English Literature, School of Biological Sciences School of Medicine, Dentistry of London Language and Linguistics Gold Renewal and Biomedical Sciences Department of Psychology Bronze Silver Renewal Silver = University award held: Silver = University award held: Silver = University award held: Silver = University award held: Bronze Good practice example: A good range of Good practice example: Research support support for those taking maternity leave, Good practice example: Promotion of Good practice example: Women in Science is available to all academics, with a larger including six months without teaching on dentistry as a career option for men. Database (WISDAT) project. sum offered to earlier career staff, and an return to work. early career allowance (150 hours) in the Queen’s University Belfast Swansea University workload allocation model for their first year. Queen’s University Belfast School of Politics, International College of Engineering School of Education Studies and Philosophy Bronze Bronze Bronze Queen Mary University of = University award held: Bronze London = University award held: Silver = University award held: Silver School of Electronic Engineering Good practice example: Termly series of and Computer Science Good practice example: New academics Good practice example: ‘Pathways out of workshops focused on issues pertinent to Bronze Renewal are allocated a mentor and a start-up fund the PhD’ programme. inclusivity. of £4000 to encourage networking and = University award held: Bronze development of their research. Royal Holloway, University of The Open University London Department of Computing Good practice example: The school Queen’s University Belfast Department of Computer Science and Communications provides crèche facilities for staff when School of History and Anthropology Bronze Bronze public lectures are held outside core hours. Bronze = University award held: Bronze = University award held: Bronze Queen Mary University = University award held: Silver of London Good practice example: During Good practice example: Action to develop School of Geography Good practice example: ‘Finding your voice’ undergraduate recruitment days, academic an initiative to provide industry mentors for Bronze seminar for first year undergraduates. staff and current students join applicants undergraduate women. and their families in a one-hour lunch = University award held: Bronze session to discuss the degree programmes The Open University and life in the department. Department of Engineering Good practice example: Institutionally and Innovation funded research undertaken by a professor Bronze in the school, to explore undergraduate progression and attainment. = University award held: Bronze

Good practice example: Good reflection and analysis on promotion success.

18 Awards | Departments 19 The Open University University College London University College London University of Aberdeen School of Life, Health Department of Civil, Environmental Department of Geography School of Natural and and Chemical Sciences & Geomatic Engineering Bronze Computing Sciences Bronze Bronze Bronze = University award held: Silver = University award held: Bronze = University award held: Silver = University award held: Bronze Good practice example: Professional and Good practice example: All staff with a Good practice example: The department external interests of self-assessment team Good practice example: New postdoctoral minimum of two years’ service are invited to signed a pledge for zero tolerance to sexual members are used to inform departmental champions have been set up and trained make a case for promotion. harassment, and ran a training workshop on analysis and activities. as part of the academic line manager (ALM) it for first year students. structure, to provide impartial career advice. Ulster University University College London School of Health Sciences University College London MRC Laboratory for Molecular University of Aberdeen Bronze Department of Earth Sciences Cell Biology School of Psychology Bronze Gold Bronze = University award held: Bronze = University award held: Silver = University award held: Silver = University award held: Bronze Good practice example: “Imagine yourself” workshops for local all-boys schools, to Good practice example: In response to Good practice example: To establish real Good practice example: Provision of encourage uptake of university courses by feedback, the department has established change, the department are iteratively financial assistance to cover childcare costs. young men. a dedicated budget to cover childcare for following a recognised eight step process staff away on departmental business, and to embed Athena SWAN principles and University of Bath University College London also encourages staff to apply for childcare practices. Department of Mathematical Department of Chemistry budget as part of grant applications. Sciences Bronze Renewal University College London Bronze University College London The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty = University award held: Silver Department of Medical Physics of the Built Environment = University award held: Bronze and Biomedical Engineering Bronze Good practice example: Production of a Bronze Renewal Good practice example: Action for video targeted at students contemplating = University award held: Silver the promotions committee to identify, a career in chemistry (‘why do a PhD in = University award held: Silver encourage and support potential candidates chemistry at UCL?’) Good practice example: The department to apply. Good practice example: To avoid has established an “interruption allowance excessive burden on female academics, the fund” to support students in exceptional department have allowed female final year circumstances, for example those with PhD students and postdoctoral research childcare commitments or health problems. assistants to undertake UCL’s recruitment and selection training and to sit on some recruitment panels.

20 Awards | Departments 21 University of Cambridge University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh School of Chemistry Department of Chemical School of Biological Sciences School of Mathematics Bronze Renewal Engineering and Biotechnology Silver Renewal Bronze Renewal Bronze = University award held: Bronze = University award held: Silver = University award held: Silver = University award held: Silver Good practice example: Plans to establish Good practice example: Piloting of a career Good practice example: The head of school a school fund for cases of unavoidable Good practice example: Production of coaching scheme with Equate Scotland, holds an annual promotions briefing. financial pressure for postgraduate students, anonymised cases of successful promotions, with excellent feedback from those who for example pressures relating to having a as examples to provide to staff. participated. young family. Departments of Mathematics University of East Anglia University of Edinburgh and Computer Science University of Birmingham School of Chemistry School of GeoSciences Silver School of Computer Science Bronze Silver Bronze = University award held: Bronze = University award held: Bronze = University award held: Silver = University award held: Bronze Good practice example: Development of Good practice example: School funding Good practice example: The school has an ‘Athena SWAN-Wiki tool’ to record data Good practice example: Implementation of of an Aurora leadership fellowship. ring-fenced a specific budget to provide and progress on the action plan. a process through which panels must revisit career coaching to female staff: coaching shortlisting decisions if no female applicants University of East Anglia for success. University of Glasgow are selected, and to re-review at least the top School of Politics, Philosophy, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal three female candidates. Language and Communication University of Edinburgh Health and Comparative Medicine Studies School of Informatics Silver University of Bristol Bronze Silver Renewal School of Physiology, = University award held: Bronze Pharmacology and Neuroscience = University award held: Bronze = University award held: Silver Bronze Good practice example: Creation of more Good practice example: Timetabling Good practice example: Support for female inclusive social and work-related events, = University award held: Bronze of meetings between 11:00 - 15:00, with students, including peer assisted learning including moving the seminar series departmental meetings held on the closest and the SNACK club, which provides informal to lunchtimes and plans for an annual Good practice example: Action to weekday to the eleventh of the month, in career development support. “wellbeing at work” seminar. investigate how women’s careers are order to rotate the day on which this is held. impacted by the expectation to be geographically mobile.

22 Awards | Departments 23 University of Glasgow University of Glasgow University of Hertfordshire University of Leicester Institute of Infection, Immunity School of Medicine, Dentistry School of Life and Medical Sciences Department of Genetics and Inflammation and Nursing Bronze Bronze Bronze Bronze = University award held: Bronze = University award held: Bronze = University award held: Bronze = University award held: Bronze Good practice example: All staff have Good practice example: Appointment of Good practice example: The institute plans Good practice example: In addition to the option to work flexibly. a postdoctoral research adviser to oversee to offer staff one to one maternity leave funding cover for the actual period of appraisal and other aspects of career planning sessions to ensure they have a clear maternity leave, the school considers the University of Leeds progression. understanding of university policies, and period immediately following the return of Faculty of Mathematics prior to commencing maternity leave, they a staff member, and ensures the maternity and Physical Sciences University of Lincoln are partnered with a ‘maternity buddy’. cover includes a handover period. Bronze School of Life Sciences Bronze University of Glasgow University of Glasgow = University award held: Bronze Institute of Neuroscience School of Physics and Astronomy = University award held: Bronze & Psychology and the School Silver Renewal Good practice example: Analysis of the of Psychology number of years spent at a previous grade Good practice example: Hosting of Bronze = University award held: Bronze prior to promotion. interview lunches for all staff and candidates on interview days, allowing applicants to = University award held: Bronze Good practice example: Postgraduate University of Leeds meet and talk informally with staff. and postdoctoral research communities School of Medicine Good practice example: To address any are involved in decision-making within Silver University of Lincoln unconscious bias in selecting postgraduate the school, and there is mentoring of PhD School of Psychology research applicants, scholarship rankings will students by postdoctoral researchers. = University award held: Bronze Bronze be blind-assessed. University of Hertfordshire Good practice example: Introduction of = University award held: Bronze University of Glasgow School of Engineering an automatic extension to cover fixed-term School of Engineering and Technology contracts that end during the statutory Good practice example: Self-assessment Bronze Bronze maternity period, which has positively has influenced the design for the new school impacted on the number of women taking building, which will include a gender neutral = University award held: Bronze = University award held: Bronze their full entitlement. toilet and breastfeeding space.

Good practice example: The launch and Good practice example: Keeping in touch University of Leicester funding of the rowntree fellowship scheme (KIT) buddies meet with prospective parents Department of Cancer Studies to support academic returners to maintain about the best use of KIT days, to help Silver their career trajectory following a period colleagues plan for them. of leave, named in honour of one of the = University award held: Bronze school’s first women engineering graduates. Good practice example: Follow-up meetings are held one month after induction, to check how staff are settling in.

24 Awards | Departments 25 University of Liverpool University of Oxford University of Portsmouth University of Portsmouth Institute of Infection Department of Earth Sciences Dental Academy School of Civil Engineering and Global Health Bronze Bronze and Surveying Silver Bronze = University award held: Bronze = University award held: Bronze = University award held: Bronze = University award held: Bronze Good practice example: A five-minute Good practice example: The academy offers a Good practice example: Fostering unconscious bias reminder session will bespoke professional part-time access course: Good practice example: Core hours are Liverpool Infection and Global Health be run before each day of interviews for the dental development programme (DDP), from 10:00 - 16.00, with most meetings held Talent (FLIGHT): this supports early career academic positions. which supports professional entry students between 12:00 - 15.00. researchers in obtaining external funding. who do not have the required A-Levels for

University of Oxford direct entry to the BSc in dental hygiene. University of Portsmouth

University of Liverpool Department of Oncology School of Creative Technologies Institute of Learning and Teaching Silver University of Portsmouth Bronze - Faculty of Life and Health Sciences Department of Geography Bronze Renewal = University award held: Bronze Bronze = University award held: Bronze

= University award held: Bronze Good practice example: The oncology = University award held: Bronze Good practice example: Staff applications postdoctoral network, with an allocated for timetable modifications are collated Good practice example: All staff are invited annual budget to run an away-day, careers Good practice example: The department according to gender and grade, and to apply for school committee vacancies, events and meetings. is implementing a specific, confidential flexibility is given for a range of reasons.

with applicants interviewed and gender reporting procedure (gender alert) where

balance recognised as an important University of Oxford staff can anonymously report issues within University of Sheffield consideration. Succession planning is also Nuffield Department the department. Department of Civil and considered through recruiting deputies to of Surgical Sciences Structural Engineering roles and encouraging shadowing. Silver University of Portsmouth Bronze Department of Mathematics University of Manchester = University award held: Bronze Bronze = University award held: Silver School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work Good practice example: All staff have been = University award held: Bronze Good practice example: To improve Bronze Renewal invited to sit on at least one committee and/ transparency and fairness, sabbaticals or working group of their choice. Good practice example: A comprehensive are now awarded to academic staff = University award held: Bronze workload model, which is being adopted automatically as part of a new sabbatical across the university. rota (one semester in eight). The onus is no Good practice example: The school plans longer on the individual to arrange cover, to establish a new workload allocation instead this is arranged through teaching committee, with representatives of staff at all groups grades to agree workload tariffs.

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University of Sheffield University of Sheffield University of Strathclyde University of Sussex

Department of Electronic The Medical School Department of Civil and School of Psychology

and Electrical Engineering Silver Environmental Engineering Bronze Bronze Renewal Silver = University award held: Silver = University award held: Bronze = University award held: Silver = University award held: Bronze Good practice example: Advocacy work Good practice example: Analysis of the Good practice example: Establishment of with the NHS and engagement with the Good practice example: Running an number of years spent at a previous grade, a women’s adviser post; female researchers Sheffield women in medicine (SWiM) engineering summer school for girls aged prior to promotion. have the option to meet individually with network. 14 - 15 with the aim of engaging them in the adviser to discuss career aspirations, engineering challenges and showcasing University of Warwick training opportunities and mentoring. University of Southampton engineering as a career. Centre for Educational Faculty of Engineering Development, Appraisal University of Sheffield and the Environment University of Strathclyde and Research Nuclear AMRC Bronze Department of Electronic Bronze Bronze and Electrical Engineering = University award held: Silver Bronze = University award held: Silver = University award held: Silver Good practice example: The faculty has = University award held: Bronze Good practice example: Every year PhD Good practice example: Membership of established a fund to which staff with students complete a formal assessment of the women in nuclear (WiN) charter and caring responsibilities can apply, covering Good practice example: The ‘space school’ their training needs for research and career participation in WiN events. additional care costs incurred by attending residential programme initiated by the development, with uptake and progress out-of-hours activities or external events. department, for 100 school students each year. reviewed.

University of Sheffield

Department of Computer Science University of Strathclyde University of Sussex University of York

Silver Department of Architecture Department of Mathematics and University of Hull Bronze Bronze Hull York Medical School = University award held: Silver Silver = University award held: Bronze = University award held: Bronze Good practice example: The promotions = University award held: Bronze committee considers administrative and Good practice example: Plans to make Good practice example: All departmental technical promotions and increments in the the workload allocation processes and appraisals now include a promotions Good practice example: The school same way as for academic staff. citizenship activities more transparent checklist, which ensures that career is developing a fully online version of and accountable. progression is the main focus of the appraisal. their postgraduate certificate in health professionals education, in order to make access easier for those with family commitments.

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