Athena SWAN Awards
The University of Manchester was awarded a Bronze SWAN in 2008, and now the Faculty of Life Sciences has gained recognition at the next level, by being awarded a Silver SWAN in 2009.
This award specifically recognises the Faculty’s hard work and achievement in providing positive support for women working in science, engineering and technology (SET)at key career transition points. The Faculty has shown commitment to changing the culture and gender balance in decision making and was applauded by the judging panel for its work on ensuring gender balance in the recruitment and development of staff.
Download our completed application and appendices which contain the Faculty Statistics and Action Plan.
- Completed application [PDF 101KB]
- Appendices [PDF 1.08MB]
Alison Gurney represents the Faculty as part of the SWAN Self-assessment panel, who prepared the application after collecting, analysing and comparing key data on gender equality over the last 3 years. This included female staff and student numbers, the gender profile of staff at each grade and on decision-making committees, promotion applications and success, parental leave and flexible working. The group prepared an action plan to address remaining issues, such as the increasingly low proportion of female staff with increasing grade and the low numbers of women applying for promotion. The action plan will be rolled out over the next year.
Alison Gurney and Fiona Coll (HR Manager) attended an award ceremony at the Botanical Gardens in Birmingham at the end of September to collect the Faculty’s Athena Swan Silver Award.
For more information about the award, visit:
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