The Department of Sociology received a Silver Athena SWAN Award from Advance HE in recognition of its intersectional efforts to advance gender equality. The submission for this award can be viewed here.

The Department of Sociology Athena Swan Self-Assessment Team (SAT), led by Professor Nickie Charles and Dr Maria do Mar Pereira, has received the inaugural "Excellence in Gender Equality Award", given by the University to recognise individuals and teams doing outstanding work to promote gender equality at Warwick. More information on the award can be found here.

Following the award of the Athena SWAN bronze award, Maria, Nickie, and Ruth attended the awards ceremony in Glasgow to accept the award.

From L - R: Dr Maria do Mar Pereira, Professor Nickie Charles, and Dr Ruth Pearce.

• Find out more about the Athena SWAN award on the Equality Challenge Unit website.
• Find out more about the department's work towards the award (and following the award!) on our Athena SWAN webpage.