Athena SWAN

Athena SWAN at the
School of Engineering

The School is committed to the principles of Athena SWAN and wants to achieve an improved gender balance at all levels, from student through to academic and research staff.

Welcome to
Women in Engineering!

Here, you can learn about all the work going on in the School to support gender equality in engineering disciplines, see profiles of some of the women engineers in the School, find out about our Athena SWAN bronze submission, and also link to external activities, organisations, and sources of information.

Women in Engineering:
who is your inspiration?

Profiles of our Women in Engineering

Supporting
Women in STEMM

The School of Engineering was awarded a Bronze Award from Athena SWAN in 2013. This award recognises the School's commitment to the Athena SWAN goal of advancing women’s careers in STEMM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine) in higher education and research. The University of Warwick holds an Institutional Silver Award.

Women in Engineering
Scholarships Programme

The Women in Engineering Scholarships Programme is open to first year undergraduates when they join us in October 2018.

Supporting
Women in Science

As a School we are working hard to promote and encourage women in science, as part of this we are celebrating our own female staff, students and researchers through our Female Engineers Page -- you might find it interesting to read the profiles of some of our Women in Engineering.

Athena SWAN
Award

Since the School was awarded an Athena SWAN Bronze Award, the School has been working to deliver the action plan, but also to develop initiatives more widely. Particular progress has been made in areas such as:

Facilitating flexible working
Recruitment processes
Induction and welcome for new staff members
Better gender representation in brochures, leaflets and at open days
Understanding unconscious bias

We are presently working towards our Athena SWAN Silver award -- meet our team:

Joanna Collingwood, Claire Algar, Sandra Beaufoy, Amir Ben-Romdhane, Jake Brooks, Rossana Castaldo, Gill Cooke, Carys Evans, Julie Freemantle, Rachel Grimes, Amy Hamson, Daciana Iliescu, Georgia Kremmyda, Peter Lever, Duncan Lockerby, Leandro Pecchia, Adrian Seymour, Nigel Stocks, Kathryn Thompson, David Towers, Caroline Whitehouse, Natalie Wride

Resources and inspiration

Our facts and figures

The table below shows the overview population of staff and students at the School of Engineering, including Male and Female headcounts. The data for staff are correct at 01/08/2015 and for students for 2014-15.

Research staff
10 female		58 male

Undergraduates
272 female		1122 male

Administrative and Technical staff
20 female		40 male

Academic-related staff
13 female		69 male

Postgraduate Taught
12 female		52 male

Postgraduate Research
43 female		120 male