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« Back to NewsNuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health (NDWRH) Celebrates Athena Swan Gold Award Success
2 October 2024
The Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health at the University of Oxford (NDWRH) is proud to announce that on Monday 23 September 2024, the department was awarded the prestigious Athena Swan Gold Award. This achievement follows a rigorous and substantial application process, reaffirming the department’s commitment to gender equality and the promotion of diversity within science and higher education.
Athena Swan Gold Award success for Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
17 March 2023
The award reflects the Department’s commitment to representation, progression and success for all. It acknowledges the innovative policies and practices developed across the department and the detailed action plans for improvement.
Analysis shows that funding gender equity incentives can work
4 November 2020
A paper by Oxford BRC-supported researchers says that linking research funding to Athena SWAN gender equality action plans has been associated with a rise in the number of women in mid-level leadership positions and the proportion of funding going to women.
Local school students engaged in exciting new careers mentoring programme
2 April 2020
Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics (DPAG) Postdoctoral Research Scientist Dr Sophia Malandraki-Miller took part in a pilot careers mentoring session at Oxford High School. This exciting new engagement programme is a collaboration between Medical Sciences Division researchers and Oxford Biomedical Research Centre and aims to increase awareness of the variety of careers in biomedicine.
Athena SWAN the single most comprehensive gender equality scheme in Europe
20 February 2020
A study from the Radcliffe Department of Medicine has found that the Athena SWAN scheme tackles multiple factors more comprehensively than other initiatives.
Diverse Oxford portraits go on show at Weston Library
30 November 2017
An exhibition of portraits commissioned to showcase the diversity of staff and past students at Oxford University includes staff from across the Medical Sciences Division