Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in SGSD
The School of Geography and Sustainable Development is currently preparing an application for the Athena SWAN Gender Equality Bronze Award. The Athena SWAN charter is awarded for work undertaken to promote gender equality.
Athena SWAN started with the Athena Project and the Scientific Women’s Academic Network (SWAN) advancing representation of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM) in Higher Education. It was expanded to include Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Business and Law (AHSSBL) and now also covers professional / support staff and trans staff and students. Levels of the award are Bronze, Silver and Gold.
The application process is led by our Self-Assessment Team (SAT), representing academic and non-academic staff as well as students. The team consists of:
- Keith Bennett - Head of School
- Natalie Connell - Secretary, Professional Services Staff representative
- Coralie Hunt - PhD student representative
- Sharon Leahy - Senior Lecturer
- Torsten Matzke - School Manager
- Darren McCauley - Senior Lecturer; Director of Postgraduate Taught Studies
- David McCollum - Senior Lecturer
- Julia Mikolai - Research Fellow
- Rhiannon Potts - Undergraduate student; School President
- Louise Reid - Lecturer; Ethics Chair
- Katy Roucoux - Senior Lecturer, Deputy Director of Teaching
- Richard Streeter - Lecturer; Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer
- Charles Warren - Senior Lecturer, Admissions Officer
- Karen McGregor - Equality and Diversity Awards Adviser
Please contact Richard Streeter if you would like to feed into this process or are interested in any further information.
Further information
Resources and further information on equality policies and initiatives in the University:
- Academic promotions
- Career break policy
- Carers, Childcare and School Holidays information
- Caring fund application process
- Equal pay statement
- Equality and diversity inclusion policy
- Family friendly policy
- Flexible working policy
- Good Gender Equality Practice in Employment
- Guidelines for scheduling meetings
- Health and Wellbeing at Work initiatives
- Maternity leave policy
- Paternity leave policy
- Shared parental leave policy
- Sickness absence policy
- Trans staff and student policy
- Unconscious bias awareness
- University Athena SWAN
- University equality, diversity and inclusion
- Women in Science