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      <title>Sociology receives an Athena Swan Silver Award</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Department of Sociology received a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/about/equalitydiversityinclusion/athena"&gt;Silver Athena SWAN Award&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; from &lt;a href="https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/equality-charters/athena-swan-charter"&gt;Advance HE&lt;/a&gt; in recognition of its intersectional efforts to advance gender equality. The submission for this award can be viewed &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/about/equalitydiversityinclusion/athena/sociology-athena-silver-2023-publicversion.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Sociology receives an "Excellence in Gender Equality Award"</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/services/socialinclusion/projects/chartermarks/athena/genderequalityaward/previous-winners"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;The Department of Sociology Athena Swan Self-Assessment Team (SAT), led by &lt;a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/charles/"&gt;Professor Nickie Charles&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/mariadomarpereira"&gt;Dr Maria do Mar Pereira&lt;/a&gt;, has received the inaugural &amp;quot;Excellence in Gender Equality Award&amp;quot;, 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 &lt;a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/services/socialinclusion/projects/chartermarks/athena/genderequalityaward/previous-winners"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Sociology colleagues attend the Athena Swan awards ceremony</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Following the award of the Athena SWAN bronze award, Maria, Nickie, and Ruth attended the awards ceremony in Glasgow to accept the award.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;From L - R: Dr Maria do Mar Pereira, Professor Nickie Charles, and Dr Ruth Pearce.&lt;/p&gt;

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  &lt;li&gt;Find out more about the Athena SWAN award on the &lt;a href="http://www.ecu.ac.uk/athena-swan-april-2017-results/"&gt;Equality Challenge Unit website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Find out more about the department's work towards the award (and following the award!) on &lt;a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/about/inclusion/athena/"&gt;our Athena SWAN webpage&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
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