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ECU's Athena SWAN Charter Awards Ceremony April 2017 University Of ECU’s Athena SWAN Charter Awards Ceremony April 2017 University of Glasgow 4 December 2017 Equality Challenge Unit’s (ECU’s) Athena SWAN Charter was % established in 2005 to encourage and recognise commitment 59.4 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 85 law (AHSSBL), in professional and support roles, and for trans Introduction award winners staff and students. The Charter now recognises work undertaken to address gender equality more broadly, and not just barriers to progression that affect women. 59 We are delighted to celebrate the 85 successful awards today. bronze awards It is the culmination of many months’ work for institutions and departments, and for ECU as well. We held 42 assessment panels in total, and would like to thank the 217 panellists 22 from across the sector for taking part. silver awards Two research institutes, 11 higher education institutions (HEIs) and 40 departments have gained Athena SWAN awards this round, which was the first round where institutions and departments in UK HEIs have had to apply under the 4 expanded criteria. gold awards We would to thank the University of Glasgow 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 Anne Anderson University of Glasgow 11.15 David Ruebain Programme Chief Executive, Equality Challenge Unit 11.40 Professor Helen Beebee Athena SWAN Patron 11.50 Institutional award presentations 12.15 Professor Diane Kelly and Professor Joy Merrell Swansea University 12.30 Departmental award presentations 13.10 Professor Teresa McCormack School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast Professor Helen Sang The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh Dr Caroline Dart Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool 13.30 Lunch 14.25 Dr Carole Thomas John Innes Centre 14.40 Ashlee Christoffersen Researcher, Equality Challenge Unit 14.55 Close, Dr Ruth Gilligan Athena SWAN Manager, Equality Challenge Unit 15.00 Depart Professor Anne Anderson University of Glasgow Professor Anderson, MA, Ph.D., FRSE, OBE is Vice-principal at the University of Glasgow and leads the college of social sciences. She is gender champion for the University of Glasgow and has been active in a number of university and national initiatives around gender equality, including Speakers membership of the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) gender governance group tasked with overseeing the SFC gender action plan. She serves on the Scottish government advisory group on women and work, is a Commonwealth Scholarship Commissioner (CSC), having recently been elected as deputy chair by her fellow commissioners for the CSC, a member of the SFC research and knowledge exchange committee, a board member of Visit Scotland and an advisor to the Robertson Trust and the British Council (Scotland). Speakers 7 Professor Helen Beebee Professor Diane Kelly Athena SWAN Patron Swansea University Helen Beebee is Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the Diane’s research is on Microbial Cytochromes P450 related to University of Manchester. She was Director of the British their biodiversity, as targets for antifungal agents in both Philosophical Association (BPA) from 2007 to 2011, during medicine and agriculture and the associated rise in fungal which time she established the BPA and Society for Women resistance to current therapies. She is a member of the in Philosophy UK’s joint Committee for Women in Philosophy, BBSRC pool of experts, a Natural Products (NPRONET, NIBB) which she co-chairs with Jenny Saul. board member and is an elected fellow to the Learned Society of Wales. Diane chaired the Swansea University Athena SWAN self- assessment team for their successful Bronze award renewal in 2012, continuing as a member as Swansea University worked towards their successful Silver award in 2017. Diane chairs the medical school’s self-assessment team, gaining Bronze in 2014 and Silver in 2016. She is a founding member of the university Athena SWAN strategy group, as well as chairing and sitting on UK Athena SWAN assessment panels at Equality Challenge Unit. 8 Speakers 9 Professor Joy Merrell Professor Teresa McCormack Swansea University School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast After a successful clinical career as a nurse and health visitor, Teresa McCormack is professor of cognitive development at the Joy moved into higher education in 1989. Joy has a long school of psychology at Queen’s University Belfast. She has been standing interest in women’s health issues dating back to her involved with Athena SWAN for many years, having led the PhD work in community well woman clinics, which has school’s successful Silver application in 2010, and its first broadened to encompass research focusing on the health of successful Gold application in 2013. She has previously been minority ethnic groups and promoting active ageing. Joy is acting director of the Queen’s gender initiative, and in that the European co-ordinator of Sigma Theta Tau International capacity was instrumental in helping Queen’s secure the renewal Honour Society of Nursing. of its Silver institutional award. She is co-founder of ASPON, a national network for psychology departments that are engaging Joy chairs the college of human and health sciences’ Athena with the Athena SWAN initiative, and has given presentations on SWAN self-assessment team, achieving Bronze (2013), Bronze her experience with Athena SWAN in a number of institutions. renewal (2015) and Silver awards (2017). Since 2015, she also chairs the Swansea University self-assessment team, which achieved an institutional Silver award in 2017. She serves as a member of the university equal opportunities committee, university council and sits on Athena SWAN assessment panels at Equality Challenge Unit. 10 Speakers 11 Professor Helen Sang Dr Caroline Dart The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool Helen Sang received a degree in natural sciences and a PhD Caroline Dart is currently a reader and deputy head of in genetics from Cambridge University. She continued biochemistry at the University of Liverpool. She’s a cardiovascular developing a research career at Harvard and Edinburgh physiologist who completed her doctorate at the University of universities and was then appointed principal investigator at Oxford before moving to the University of Leicester as a The Roslin Institute, now part of the University of Edinburgh. postdoctoral researcher. While at Leicester she was awarded a Her main research focus at The Roslin Institute has been the Royal Society university research fellowship, which allowed her to development of technologies for genetic modification of establish her own research group. She moved to Liverpool in chicken, which are applied in basic biomedical research and 2006 and took on the role of Athena SWAN lead for the Institute biotechnology, as well as investigating the potential for of Integrative Biology in late 2012. She led the Institute to a Silver developing disease resistance in production chickens. She is award in 2013 and Gold in 2017. a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 12 Speakers 13 Dr Carole Thomas Ashlee Christoffersen John Innes Centre Researcher, Equality Challenge Unit After graduating from Manchester University Carole joined Ashlee has been a Researcher at Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) the John Innes Centre (JIC) in 1982 to undertake a PhD since March 2014, and has led on a range of projects including studying plant virus interactions. Since then she has mining good practice examples from Athena SWAN submissions, experienced life at JIC in a variety of roles including producing the research and data briefing ‘Intersectional postdoctoral scientist, research assistant and, currently, head approaches to equality research and data’, and collecting case of JIC directorate. In addition to providing strategic support studies on equality and diversity work from intersectional to the JIC director, Carole leads on the ‘inclusivity and perspectives. diversity’ agenda at JIC and led both the 2014 Silver and the 2017 Gold Athena SWAN submissions. In addition, she is the Ashlee is currently undertaking PhD research on the JIC senior equality and diversity champion and a trustee for conceptualisation and operationalisation of intersectionality, at the Daphne Jackson Trust. the University of Edinburgh, and is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Intersectional Justice in Berlin. Previously she was Research Associate at the Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy in Vancouver, Canada. 14 Speakers 15 Awards Universities and Research Institutes Gold Award Liverpool School Ulster University University of Oxford of Tropical Medicine = Joined: 2012 = Joined: 2005 John Innes Centre = Joined: 2013 Good practice: £100k central fund that has Good practice: The introduction of E R HA R T = Joined: 2014 Good practice: Career track scheme been allocated to support Athena SWAN compulsory sexual consent workshops for established to create a pathway to move activities including the returning carers first year undergraduates. Good practice: Successful lobbying of fixed-term staff to permanent
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