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The seeks to promote gender equality, representation and progression within higher education and research. A Bronze Award recognises the steps that the schools have taken in assessing data trends, practices and processes and identifying opportunities for developing an inclusive culture that values all staff within a five-year action plan.

The University of 麻豆果冻传媒 has held an institutional Athena SWAN Bronze Award since 2013. In 2016, it built on this achievement and became one of only a handful of higher education institutions nationally to achieve an institutional award under the new expanded charter. It is now preparing to submit for an institutional Silver Award in the upcoming 2021 round. Following the latest awards round nine schools hold Bronze Awards and two silver.

Professor Tara Dean

Professor Tara Dean, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise), Chair of the Athena SWAN Steering Group and University of 麻豆果冻传媒’s Gender Equality Champion said: “I am incredibly proud of the work that these two schools have done in progressing gender equality through their applications and action plans, and I would especially like to thank Dr Francisca Farache and Sheridan Denis Le Seve who have led this work so expertly within their schools. These highly prized awards are a mark of the progress that we as an institution have made in embedding gender equality, but they are also a roadmap of the work we must do going forward. Since embedding our commitment to Athena SWAN into our institutional Strategic Plan in 2016, colleagues across the university have worked incredibly hard to progress this work within their schools and institutionally, and I am delighted that we now have eleven out of our thirteen schools holding awards.”

Sheridan Denis Le Seve, Athena SWAN lead in the School of Education, said: “I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the Athena SWAN submission, from the School of Education self-assessment team to the central university teams. We are overjoyed to have achieved our Bronze Award, which recognises the school’s commitment to gender equality. Now the real work starts as we implement our action plan through collectively putting into practice the Athena SWAN principles.

Dr Francisca Farache, Athena SWAN lead for the 麻豆果冻传媒 Business School, said: “We are so happy to have achieved an Athena SWAN Bronze Award. It was a great team effort by the school self-assessment team. I would like to thank staff and students for supporting our submission. The Athena SWAN panel 麻豆果冻传媒 the commitment and ambition of the school in gender equality and unanimously commended the self-assessment team for a well-presented and justified application. In addition, the panel believes that our action plan could make real and tangible progress towards gender equality. We are really excited for this next step in our journey.