{"id":310,"date":"2013-09-17T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.eda.kent.ac.uk\/news-ext\/2013\/09\/17\/careers-for-women-in-science-remain-a-priority-at-kent\/"},"modified":"2013-09-17T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T00:00:00","slug":"careers-for-women-in-science-remain-a-priority-at-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2013\/09\/17\/careers-for-women-in-science-remain-a-priority-at-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Careers for women in science remain a priority at Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The University of Kent has renewed its commitment to achieving the Athena SWAN Bronze award to support women in science at a dedicated awareness event on Monday 16 September.<\/p>\n<p>The event is organised each year to reinforce and recognise the University&#8217;s on-going commitment to the advancement and promotion of women working in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics) subjects in higher education and research. <\/p>\n<p>The Athena SWAN Awareness Day, which took place at the University&#8217;s Canterbury campus, was launched by Professor Sarah Spurgeon, Head of the School of Engineering and Digital Arts. <\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s event included a keynote address from Professor Beatrice Pelloni of the University of Reading which focussed on what Athena SWAN means for academic life and the daily routine of a mathematics department. A series of workshops for smaller group discussions were also included in the programme and covered work-life balance; how work is valued; career development planning for Professional Services staff; the Athena SWAN accreditation process, and taking a career break.<\/p>\n<p>The University&#8217;s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dame Julia Goodfellow, also led a panel discussion accompanied by members of the Athena SWAN working group for academic women based at Kent.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Mark Burchell, Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and Chair of the Athena SWAN Working Group stated: &#8216;We must continue to carefully reflect on the practices and processes that demonstrate our continuing commitment to fostering a culture at Kent that is truly supportive and inclusive for all staff and students.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The University is waiting to hear the result of its application for the Athena SWAN bronze award, expected in late September. Bronze awards demonstrate that an institution as a whole has a solid foundation of policies and practices to eliminate gender bias and supports an inclusive culture that values all staff.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent has renewed its commitment to achieving the Athena SWAN Bronze award to support women in science at a dedicated awareness event &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2013\/09\/17\/careers-for-women-in-science-remain-a-priority-at-kent\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}