International Women’s Day (IWD) on 8 March, is an opportunity to celebrate women’s achievements and campaign for equality for women at home, at work and across the world. This year’s theme is #Breakthebias and we have a series of thought-provoking events for colleagues and students to join.
What’s On
- Working Towards Overcoming Gender and Racial Bias in the Psychological Professions -‘A Q&A with Dr Margo Ononaiye (Programme Director for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Programme) and Research Assistant Tessa Thomas.’ (Pre-Recorded Video)
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- The first in a new series of our Personal Stories series This Pre-Recorded Q&A session talks to the experiences and challenges faced by women of colour, in the field of Psychology.
- UoS, Staff Network Session 7 March, 13:30 – 15:00, Teams
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- Read more about this event and how you can get involved.
- International Women’s Day Online Event, 8 March, 18:00 – 19:00
- This event will showcase three high profile and influential women from our Academic and Alumni Community. Read more on our Inspiring Women event.
- Celebrating women working in STEM on International Women’s Day, supported by RAF Engineering 8 March, 11-11:45
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- WISE is hosting a webinar on International Women’s Day, supported by RAF Engineering, that may be of interest to your students. Celebrating women in STEM, the webinar will showcase the variety of roles, career progression opportunities and best practice within RAF Engineering. It’s a chance to hear from inspirational role models at entry, mid-career and leadership level within RAF Engineering.
Building our gender equality
As a university we are continually working to become more inclusive and remove gender parity. With much work underway:
- Since 2014/15 we have increased the number of female professors by a third, with an increase of 50% in STEM
- We hold a Silver Athena Swan award as an institution, with departments continuing to apply and achieve bronze and silver awards.
- Medicine, the most recent department to be granted a silver award have introduced EDI training that boasts an 85% completion rate as well as:
- We have implemented women only preparing for promotion sessions, introduced Academic Career Development committees in each School and launched a super-recruiter project – these projects focus on supporting under-represented groups apply for jobs and progress in their careers
- Additionally, please check our resource on how you can be a Gender ally in the workplace.
