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Athena SWAN at Edinburgh Napier University
Tackling gender inequality from the classroom to the boardroomEdinburgh Napier University
10th May June 2016
by Hazel Hall
Professor of Social Informatics & Athena SWAN Academic Champion
[email protected]@ hazelhhttp://hazelhall.org
Institutional participation in Athena SWAN
•Commitment to a progressive charter•Adoption of the principles
• Policies• Practice• Action plans• Culture
http://www.ecu.ac.uk/equality-charters/athena-swan/about-athena-swan/
Getting the work underway at Edinburgh Napier
•Signed up to (old) Charter in 2008• Work stalled on institutional bronze award submission
•Academic Champion for Athena SWAN appointed late 2013
•Self Assessment Team established early 2014
Work towards the submission
Semester 2 2013/14
Engagement “This is what we are doing and why”
Data Collection of institutional data
Document Review of prior submissions
Work towards the submission
Semester 2 2013/14
Semester 3 2013/14
Engagement “This is what we are doing and why”
Survey and focus group prep
Data Collection of institutional data
Analysis of institutional data
Document Review of prior submissions
Start write up main body
Work towards the submission
Semester 2 2013/14
Semester 3 2013/14
Semester 1 2014/15
Engagement “This is what we are doing and why”
Survey and focus group prep
“These are our findings – what do you think?”
Data Collection of institutional data
Analysis of institutional data
Analysis of survey and focus group data
Document Review of prior submissions
Start write up main body
Complete write up, including action plan
Professoriate 28% F (21% benchmark)
STEMM Professoriate 21% F (16% f/t, 19.6% p/t)
Prominent senior F staff in particular areas
“This is what we are doing and why”
4½ pages of tables report engagement in our submission document
From January to November 2014
•20 internally organised consultations/events•Participation at 7 external events•Media coverage: The Conversation, Scotsman, Edinburgh Evening News•Web and social media, e.g. intranet, personal web pages, Twitter
Outward facing engagement on-campus
Outward facing engagement off-campus
Height of campaign October 2014
50th anniversary dinner at the RSE
Staff and graduates
Students
Men!
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell as keynote speaker
Not all fun and games
Spreadsheet data into graphs
Submission drafted
Submission made November 2014
Continuing the work at Edinburgh Napier
22 item Action Plan• Resources for supporting the continuation of the work• Addressing issues from 2014 • New initiatives• Item 22
School Academic Champions and SATs• Computing, Engineering and Built Environment, and Business School -
aiming for November 2016 submission• Arts and Creative Industries - aiming for November 2016 or April 2017
submission• Life, Sport and Social Sciences – SAT meetings to start soon• Nursing, Midwifery and Social Care – will aim for April 2017 submission
Bronze institutional renewal/silver application November 2017
For further information contact:
– @hazelh– http://hazelhall.org– http://about.me/hazelh
– [email protected]– +44 (0)131 455 2760
Slides on SlideShare at:http://slideshare.net/hazelhall
Athena SWAN at Edinburgh Napier University
Tackling gender inequality from the classroom to the boardroomEdinburgh Napier University
10th May June 2016
by Hazel Hall
Professor of Social Informatics & Athena SWAN Academic Champion
[email protected]@ hazelhhttp://hazelhall.org
