University Of Bath

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Two more departments receive bronze Athena Swan Awards.

Two more departments recevie bronze Athena Swan awards.

Athena SWAN perceives headway of sex equity: representation, movement and accomplishment for all. 

The honors recognize a promise to sexual orientation balance for understudies and staff, and profession movement for staff in advanced education. 

Keeping in mind the end goal to get the grant, divisions need to give proof through strong self-investigation of how they connect with, backing and create staff and understudies. This incorporates formulating an activity plan to help them work towards their objectives of sexual orientation uniformity. Entries are surveyed by companions from different colleges. 

Dr Adele Murrell, who co-ordinated the accommodation from the Department of Biology and Biochemistry, remarked: "We are satisfied to have gotten our Bronze Award and are propelled to work significantly harder to make the Department of Biology and Biochemistry a spot where everybody feels esteemed paying little heed to sex. 

"We know that an Athena SWAN grant is an acknowledgment of the exertion we are making not an identification meaning a level of accomplishment or achievement, and that there is still a ton that we can do to enhance correspondence and assorted qualities in STEMM." 

Teacher Simone Fullagar from the Department for Health said: "We are exceptionally satisfied to have gotten the Bronze Award in acknowledgment of our dedication to sex value and assorted qualities. 

"Having been through a time of development and move we took the choice to take after the new Athena SWAN Charter. This implies we will activity a scope of procedures to encourage important change through the association of our understudies, scholastic and expert staff." 

Mark Humphriss, University Secretary, included: "We are pleased to see such a large number of divisions now captivating in this procedure and accomplishing Athena SWAN honors. Our most recent round of fruitful entries builds the aggregate number of offices with bronze grants to eight. 

"In 2013, we set an extending focus of moving from no departmental recompenses to no less than eight before the end of 2016 and it is satisfying to have achieved this. Congrats are because of all who have made this conceivable and who are currently guaranteeing that the activity arrangements are executed. This is empowering changes in both results and culture in backing of the University's objectives." 

View our fruitful division entries. 

Perused the Equality Challenge Unit's public statement about Athena SWAN results.