Athena SWAN awards are given in recognition of a department’s efforts to help promote and advance the careers of women in academia. Medical schools and clinical departments made up 30% of all successful submissions in this latest round of the Athena SWAN Charter awards.
The Head of the Medical Sciences Division, Professor Alastair Buchan, commented: “We are delighted with these results. The eight awards reflect a great deal of effort across the Division to ensure a supportive working environment for all our staff but women especially.”
Professor Jenny Kurinczuk, Director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, said upon hearing of her department’s Silver award: “We are delighted to hear that we have been awarded a silver level Athena SWAN award. This is testament to the quality of our application led by Maria Quigley, and the contribution of our Athena SWAN working groups, our admin team and the support from Brid Cronin. We have for many years followed the principles recently laid out by Athena SWAN, although we are not complacent and are working to improve the support for female researchers and all our staff following the Athena SWAN plans we developed during the application process."
Links:
- Athena SWAN website
- Athena SWAN at the University of Oxford
- National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU)
- Department of Paediatrics
- Department of Psychiatry
- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG)
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine (NDM)
- Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
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