Dean of Health Sciences Professor Dame Jessica Corner
Key Initiatives
The work to develop the Faculty’s submission for an Athena Swan Silver award progresses apace. Cathy Bowen is leading the implementation of our action plan and the key initiatives include:
– A major focus on supporting people through the University Promotion process.
– Workshops to learn about the issues for early career and contract researchers in developing their careers.
– Asking everyone to undertake on-line Equality and Diversity Training.
– Supporting women academics to undertake the Springboard women’s leadership programme.
– Ensuring the new undergraduate curriculum has a strong science base so that the possibility of a science career is shaped early in our students.
– Raising consciousness in our culture about the ‘leaky pipeline’ whereby capable women do not progress
their careers because of the many hidden and overt barriers that may stand in their way.
Please view a podcast of Professor Dame Jessica Corner talking about the Faculty achievements so far and how we wish to progress in the future: