{"id":4,"date":"2016-07-27T23:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T22:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/athenaswan\/?p=4"},"modified":"2016-08-02T14:48:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T13:48:23","slug":"university-self-assessment-team-our-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/athenaswan\/2016\/07\/27\/university-self-assessment-team-our-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"University Self Assessment Team \u2013 our Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my first ever blog!<\/p>\n<p>The aim of my blogs is to provide updates on the University Vision for Athena SWAN and more importantly to gain insight, ideas and views from staff and students.<\/p>\n<p>For those unfamiliar with Athena SWAN the underlying principles are \u2018Recognising advancement of gender equality: representation, progression and success for all\u2019 (1)<\/p>\n<p>To show that a Department or University embraces the principles of Athena SWAN, they can apply for a Bronze, Silver or Gold award. Our\u00a0University holds a Bronze award and we will be applying for our renewal\u00a0in April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Within the University, our Departments have been very successful with their SWAN applications, <b>44<\/b>% of our Departments and School hold\u00a0Bronze awards<br \/>\n\u2022 Architecture and Civil Engineering<br \/>\n\u2022 Biology and Biochemistry<br \/>\n\u2022 Chemistry<br \/>\n\u2022 Computer Science<br \/>\n\u2022 Health<br \/>\n\u2022 Mechanical Engineering<br \/>\n\u2022 Pharmacy and Pharmacology<br \/>\n\u2022 Physics<\/p>\n<p>As you can probably work out from the list - Athena SWAN was targeted at STEMM Departments, with the focus being on women in STEMM. This year\u00a0the Athena SWAN charter expanded to encompass gender equality across all Academic Departments\u00a0at the\u00a0University.<\/p>\n<p>To learn from each other and to guide the over-arching University SWAN vision and action plan, each eligible Department had a representative on the University Self Assessment Team (USAT). \u00a0With SWAN including all Departments\u00a0we have created a stream-lined USAT which is\u00a0made up of volunteers from across the University, representing academics, students and administration.<\/p>\n<p>The USAT now consists of Faculty Champions (plus an alternate), policy and planning, Director of Human Resources, postdoctoral researcher, students union postgraduate officer, leader of the women\u2019s senior academic network, a Director of Administration, Equality and Diversity Manager, the University Secretary and administration support.\u00a0\u00a0I was appointed Chair of the USAT in June this year.<\/p>\n<p>To add to the excitement my first measurable output is to ensure we have a draft of our submission to renew the University\u2019s Bronze award by the middle of December 2016. Not surprisingly this is happening slap bang in the middle of my heaviest teaching activity!<\/p>\n<p><strong>USAT Membership from June 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marion Harney &amp; Manuchehr Soleimani (Faculty of Engineering &amp; Design)<\/li>\n<li>Sophie Whiting &amp; Rachel Arnold (Faculty of Humanities &amp; Social Science)<\/li>\n<li>Robert Jack &amp; John Power (Faculty of Science)<\/li>\n<li>Juani Swart &amp; Jo Ward-Grosvold (School of Management)<\/li>\n<li>Carole Mundell (Leader of womens senior academic network)<\/li>\n<li>Iain Forster-Smith (Director of Administration)<\/li>\n<li>Emma Williams (Post Doctoral Researcher Representative)<\/li>\n<li>Richard Brooks (Director of Human Resources)<\/li>\n<li>Mark Humphriss (University Secretary)<\/li>\n<li>Adam Kearns (SU Postgraduate Officer)<\/li>\n<li>Nicky Kemp (Director of Policy and Planning)<\/li>\n<li>Katherine Slee (Policy &amp; Planning Analyst)<\/li>\n<li>Marlene Bertrand (Equality and Diversity Manager)<\/li>\n<li>Caroline Harris (Secretary)<\/li>\n<li>Linda Newnes (Chair)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My\u00a0next blog will provide the timeline for our submission as well as ways in which staff and students can provide their thoughts and views on our plans and findings to date.<\/p>\n<p>Linda<\/p>\n<p>(1) http:\/\/www.ecu.ac.uk\/equality-charters\/athena-swan\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my first ever blog! 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