The Award significantly highlights the Division’s achievements in areas corresponding to communication, versatile working, and the promotion of latest senior ladies to each chair and professorship posts.
Dr Laura Winchester, Athena Swan lead for the Division of Psychiatry, stated:
We’re delighted with the renewal of our Silver Award. The adjustments we’ve made to date have had an extremely optimistic impression throughout the Division and I’m excited to proceed to drive ahead our work on gender equality and inclusion for the advantage of everybody in Psychiatry.”
The Athena Swan staff will now implement a five-year future motion plan will give attention to the inclusion, in addition to profession improvement of, completely different teams within the division, together with new or rising PIs, college students, dad and mom, minoritised teams and other people exterior researcher roles. It’ll additionally take a look at systemic gender inequalities corresponding to pay gaps and open-ended contracts.
Members of the Athena Swan self evaluation staff within the Division of Psychiatry
Professor Belinda Lennox, Head of the Division of Psychiatry, stated: “We’re delighted to have had our Athena Swan Silver Award renewed. This award is the end result of an enormous quantity of effort from our lead Laura Winchester, the self-assessment staff and the broader Folks and Tradition committees and dealing teams who all contributed to its success.
“We have made large progress since our 2018 Silver Award however we’re not complacent and have formidable and thrilling plans for gender equality within the years forward. We now stay up for implementing our motion plan as we aspire to go for Gold subsequent time.”
The Division has been concerned within the Athena Swan course of since 2011 with a Bronze Award in 2013, adopted by Silver in 2015, which was then renewed in 2018, and now in 2024.
