Athena SWAN Newsletter – May 2015
Successful Athena SWAN Awards!
All departments who applied in the November 2014 were successful in receiving an
Athena SWAN award. Congratulations to the following departments and their SATs:
Institute of Global Health: Bronze
UCL School of Pharmacy: Bronze
Department of Statistical Sciences: Bronze
Department of Physics and Astronomy: Silver
Please see an article on these results, with congratulations from Provost, here.
Launch of new Athena SWAN charter
The Athena SWAN charter has now been expanded to include non-science
departments, and professional services members of staff. I will be arranging a
workshop in the next few months to discuss the new requirements and how changes
will affect departments holding or working towards a SWAN award.
Free WISE membership for students
UCL is a member of WISE (campaign to promote women in science, technology and
engineering).
Please promote WISE membership to STEM students and staff who can now benefit
from free membership. Membership enables students and staff to attend networking
events such as the annual WISE Student Colloquium, to get a discount on training
courses for women in STEM, to attend events with potential STEM employers and
notifications of bursaries and scholarships, or to become a role model.
To activate free students membership, please see more information here.
Request for volunteers
We will be encouraging non-STEMM departments to take part in the new charter. If
there are any SWAN award holding departments who would be interested in being
paired with a non-STEMM department to support their application, please get in
touch. Your experience would be extremely helpful to departments new to the process
– and supporting other departments would also support any future applications for
Gold.
UCL Equalities and Diversity Team
Gower Street
London WC2B 6BT