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The Athena SWAN awards seminar took place on Monday, 15 February 2010 at the Royal Academy of Engineering. It was afternoon seminar with guest speakers that explored the Athena SWAN awards process.  The aim was to help universities wishing to submit for an Athena SWAN award in 2010 understand what the judging panel is looking for, exchange good practice, and network with other Charter members.

 

Julie Ashdown presented on the awards process, providing guidance on the application forms and processes. Download the presentation slides here.

 

Sean McWhinnie (info@oxfordresearchandpolicy.co.uk) discussed statistics. He talked about context, trends and actions, presentation of data and what the judges will be looking for at each level.

 

Averil Macdonald gave some more insight into what the judges would be looking for and talked about statistics, action plans, case studies and reporting. Download the slides here.

 

After the break, representatives from five different institutions sat on a panel to talk about what they learned from the awards process. If you are applying for an award this year and would like to talk to someone from the panel who has been through the process successfully, please contact them directly:

 

Anne Loweth, Keele University a.c.loweth@biol.keele.ac.uk

Kathy Aveyard, University of Leeds k.a.aveyard@adm.leeds.ac.uk

Alison Gurney, University of Manchester alison.gurney@manchester.ac.uk

Julie Bullimore Newcastle University julie.bullimore@ncl.ac.uk

Jan Atkinson, University College London j.atkinson@ucl.ac.uk