athena swan at edinburgh napier university

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

h.hall@napier.ac.uk@ 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

– h.hall@napier.ac.uk– +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

h.hall@napier.ac.uk@ hazelhhttp://hazelhall.org