OU Athena SWAN Awards
The Open University holds Institutional Athena SWAN Bronze. The Institution is proud of its features of good practice, such as:
- Equality & Diversity training
- Consideration of part-time staff in promotion
- Mixed recruitment and selection panels
- Range of support for students
- Agile working opportunities for all staff
- Flexibility upon return of maternity leave
As detailed in our Action Plan, we are currently working on developing and improving in the following areas:
- Increasing efforts to ensure best practice in recruitment to increase the number of female applicants for senior posts
- Extending specialist career advice to early/mid researchers on fixed term contracts
- Developing specific support for re-starting research activity following maternity leave
- Providing networking activities that specifically support women's career development in Science and Maths, Computing and Technology
Currently four STEM department have Bronze status and one department holds a Silver award. The University successfully renewed its Bronze status in April 2016.
Institutional Bronze
Departmental Bronze
- Computing and Communications
- Engineering and Innovation
- Life, Health and Chemical Sciences
- Maths and Statistics
- Knowledge Media Institute
Departmental Silver
- Physical Sciences
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