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The Athena Swan Charter is a framework which is used around the world to support and transform gender equality within higher education and research.
Established in 2005 to encourage and recognise commitment to advancing the careers of women in STEMM subjects, the Charter is now being employed to enact change across all university faculties and has been a powerful tool for lasting change.
Our Athena Swan Bronze Award was conferred in 2020, which means that we successfully demonstrated our commitment to making change happen. The Bronze Award involves the collection of staff and student data over a number of years, carefully analysing and reporting on this data, and then articulating a realistic programme for change based on this analysis.
A copy of our submission is available on request.
We are now working towards our application for the Athena Swan Silver Award, which involves implementing that programme for change identified in our Bronze Award submission.
If you would like to get involved please do get in touch with either of our Athena Swan leads, Dr Jos Smith or Prof Alison Donnell.
Commitments
We are committed to adopting the ten key principles within the Athena Swan Charter: