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 silver 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 Silver Award from Athena SWAN in 2019. 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 2020.
Read more about our Women in Engineering Scholars Programme...
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
The School of Engineering is delighted to announce that it has been successful in its application for the Athena SWAN Silver charter mark. This marks the 6th year that the School has been an Athena SWAN award recipient, having held Bronze since 2013. Silver is only awarded where there is robust and sustained evidence of robust and sustained evidence of cultural change in a department.
The School's application evidenced increased gender diversity at all levels, and showed that initiatives to support better work-life balance are being welcomed and used by staff irrespective of gender.
Meet the team who worked on the Silver submission:
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
Read more about the School's commitment to Equality and Diversity (E&D).
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 headcount. The data for staff are correct at 01/08/2018 and for students for 30/10/2018.
Academic staff |
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female15 |
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male72 |
Undergraduates |
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female225 |
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male864 |
non-binary1 |
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Administrative staff |
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female26 |
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male9 |
Technical staff |
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female2 |
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male37 |
Academic-related staff |
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female12 |
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male45 |
Postgraduate Taught |
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female33 |
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male58 |
Postgraduate Research |
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female40 |
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male115 |