{"id":209,"date":"2018-07-17T12:06:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T11:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/?p=209"},"modified":"2018-07-17T12:06:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T11:06:50","slug":"athena-swan-charters-award-ceremony-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/athenaswan-news\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Athena SWAN Charters Award Ceremony 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left to right: Minna Janhonen, Amy Blakeway, Juliette Pattinson, Emily Manktelow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On\u00a0Monday 17th of July,\u00a0the University of Kent attended the Advance HE’s Charters Awards Ceremony at the brand new Swansea University’s Bay Campus in Swansea, Wales, together with 120 colleagues across the Higher Education sector in the UK.<\/p>\n

With these awards, Advance HE’s Athena SWAN Charter and Race Equality Charter recognises and celebrates\u00a0the commitment and hard work that’s being done at the Institutions and Departments in advancing good practices in these fields.<\/p>\n

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University of Kent’s Athena SWAN Bronze<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The University of Kent was successful in renewing its Institutional Athena SWAN Bronze award. The redacted version of the submission can be accessed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Actuarial Science collected their Athena SWAN Silver award. SMSAS is the first department at the University of Kent to hold a Silver award.<\/p>\n

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The School of History collected their\u00a0Athena SWAN Bronze award. School of History is the first department in the Faculty of Humanities at Kent to hold an Athena SWAN award.<\/p>\n

The Athena SWAN Team also collected the Medway School of Pharmacy’s Athena SWAN Bronze.<\/p>\n

The Athena SWAN Team and the University of Kent know from experience that these awards are not a given and that getting an award is just the beginning. However, we would like to take this moment to celebrate the success, but also acknowledge\u00a0that there is still a lot of work to do in advancing\u00a0Gender Equality and in creating a fair work environment for all.<\/p>\n

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