SWAN
Athena SWAN in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
YOU and SWAN:
Interested in helping to encourage female school students into science and engineering?
How about becoming a recognised STEM Ambassador or researchers in residence ?
(contact Dr K. A. Hughes)
SWAN and You at CH-CHEM QUB:
School SWAN team:
Prof AP deSilva; Mrs Angela Doherty; Prof Chris Hardacre; Dr Cristina Lagunas; Ms Fiona Lauder; Ms Heather Montgomery; Dr Sarah Norman; Dr David Rooney.
We endeavour to match up with the best and follow closely the recommendations presented in the RSC Good Practice Guide. If you have comments or/and suggestions, please do not hesitate to let us know.
Mentoring:
As you might know the QGI runs a mentoring scheme for female PDRAs and academic staff.
To complement this level of support, the school is adopting a similar support mechanism to help guide research staff in their career development from a subject specific perspective. If you are interested in entering our school mentoring scheme or simply want to receive further information about its mechanism, contact Prof AP deSilva to have a “wee chat” about it.
What is SWAN?
The Athena SWAN (Scientific Women’s Academic Network) Charter is a scheme which recognises excellence in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) employment for women in higher education and research. The beliefs underpinning the Charter are:
- The advancement of science, engineering and technology (SET) is fundamental to quality of life across the globe.
- It is vitally important that women are adequately represented in what has traditionally been, and is still, a male-dominated area.
- Science cannot reach its full potential unless it can benefit from the talents of the whole population.
EEECS SWAN Network Objectives
- to recruit more female secondary school students into our degree programmes
- to encourage female undergraduates to proceed to postgraduate research
- to encourage female PhD students to advance to post-doctoral research and academic careers
Links
RSC Recruitment and Retention of Women in Academic Chemistry
RSC Factors Affecting the Career Choices of Graduate Chemists
For further information, visit: http://www.athenaswan.org.uk/
