Undergraduate Working Group
Leader: Dr Dino Rotondo (Senior Lecturer)
Contributors: Ryan McEwan, Sheeba Zahir (Undergraduate students)
Role:
- Promote professional societies and careers events for undergraduates
- Develop and review the SIPBS questionnaires for undergraduate students
- Increase awareness of Equality & Diversity matters amongst the undergraduate student
Postgraduate Working Group
Leader: Dr RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel (Senior Lecturer)
Contributors: Bela Sanches, Abdullah Alzahrani (PhD students)
Role:
- Support and promote postgraduate-led symposia in SIPBS
- Promote professional societies and careers events for postgraduates
- Develop and review the SIPBS questionnaires for postgraduate students
- Promote networking within the postgraduate students’ community
- Increase awareness of Equality & Diversity matters amongst the postgraduate students
Career progression/staff Working Group
Leader: Dr Margaret Cunningham (Chancellor’s Fellow)
Contributors: Lynne Kernweiss (Senior Technician), Dr Gillian Halket (Daphne Jackson Research Fellow), Dr Steven Ford (Teaching Associate)
Role:
- Review recruitment/induction/ADR/promotion procedures
- Promote available internal and external training courses to support career progression
- Promote mentoring to all categories of staff
- Promote the SIPBS Athena SWAN Award for researchers (support provided for conference, training, childcare)
- Consolidate and promote available support for writing grants
- Review organisational matters related to staff (e.g. core hours, workload, return to work after a break)
- Develop and review the SIPBS questionnaires for staff
Organisational Culture & Communication Working Group
Leader: Dr Veronique Seidel (Senior Lecturer)
Contributors: Prof Robin Plevin, (Head of Institute), Ian Thompson (SIPBS Head of IT), Linda Horan (Technician, Biological Protection Unit Manager)
Role:
- Support and promote social and networking activities in SIPBS to reflect diversity
- Organise an annual SIPBS Athena SWAN seminar
- Develop and review the SIPBS Athena SWAN webpage
- Promote the visibility of role models/success stories
- Increase awareness of Equality & Diversity matters amongst all categories of staff
Data Management Working Group
Leader: Dr Steven Ford (Teaching Associate)
Contributors: Dr Veronique Seidel (Senior Lecturer), Dr Gillian Halket (Daphne Jackson Research Fellow), Dr RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel (Senior Lecturer), Dr Dino Rotondo (Senior Lecturer), Linda Horan (Technician, Biological Protection Unit Manager), Lynne Kernweiss (Senior Technician)
Role:
- Monitor gender balance and ethnicity of undergraduates, postgraduates and staff regarding Athena SWAN related issues (e.g recruitment, promotion, access to training, mentoring, outreach)