Welcome to the Faculty of Medicine Athena SWAN homepage.
We are proud to announce that we have recently achieved the Athena Swan Silver Award.
This site contains information about our initiatives in promoting equality across the Faculty for all staff and students. This initiative is coordinated through the Athena SWAN Self Assessment Team.
The principles of the Athena SWAN charter are:
- To address gender inequalities requires commitment and action from everyone, at all levels of the organisation
- To tackle the unequal representation of women in science requires changing cultures and attitudes across the organisation
- The absence of diversity at management and policy-making levels has broad implications which the organisation will examine
- The high loss rate of women in science is an urgent concern which the organisation will address
- The system of short-term contracts has particularly negative consequences for the retention and progression of women in science, which the organisation recognises
- There are both personal and structural obstacles to women making the transition from PhD into a sustainable academic career in science, which require the active consideration of the organisation
For more information on the Athena SWAN Charter please visit their website
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– Faculty of Medicine Athena SWAN Self Assessment Team-