Good Practice Benefits All. This is the theme of the Canterbury Athena SWAN Awareness Day, and this is why the Athena SWAN Working Group would like to invite all staff to attend on Friday 19th September 2014. Working to the Athena SWAN principles, means working in a place where all staff are valued.
The University of Kent was awarded an Athena SWAN Bronze Award in April, which recognised Kent’s commitment to the Athena SWAN initiative. The initiative is focused on advancing women’s careers in higher education and research in the sciences. By perusing this agenda, we aim to create the best working environment for all staff, and this year’s event will cover themes relevant to staff across the Faculties and Professional Service departments.
A draft programme is already available and we invite you to join us in the Grimond Foyer at 09:30. The event will run until 13:30 and includes lunch.
We can confirm that Professor Paul Walton, from the Department of Chemistry at York University, will give a keynote address: “Becoming an Athena SWAN Gold Department”. A panel discussion, led by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dame Julia Goodfellow, will give participants the chance to discuss the initiative and find out what we’re doing here at Kent.
There will also be workshop sessions on: Promotion;Career Planning for Early Career Researchers (and those wondering what their next step should be); Whether female programmers and male librarians are exotic species; Writing an Athena SWAN Application; Unconscious Bias; and more!
We welcome all staff – men and women; Academic Schools and Professional Services; Medway and Canterbury based – to attend the event.
To find out more, and register for the event, go to the Awareness Day webpages.