Athena SWAN in SHW
Reaching out: wider activities and collaborations
As an Athena Swan Gold Award holder, it is important to us to share good practice in promoting equality and diversity. Recently, our invisible disabilities and British Sign Language activities have been adopted across the University of Glasgow; we advised other UK Universities and organisations over setting up maternity and paternity buddy schemes and supporting older workers; and led a series of workshops and staff meetings to promote gender equality among academic and professional services staff at Hacettepe University, Turkey.
Read more about recent activities and collaborations – international, national and local/internal – in the sections below.
International
| 2020 | Cindy Gray, Breda Cullen | Advice sought by Teagasc, Ireland to inform a project to advance gender equality within the field of agriculture and life sciences |
| 2020 | Cindy Gray, Asha Costigan | Work/life balance initiatives adopted by Hacettepe University staff including use of email signature text (indicating that there is no expectation that messages will be read or answered outside of usual working hours) and core meeting hours that avoid early mornings and lunch periods. |
| 2019 | Cindy Gray, Asha Costigan | Visit to Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey to run workshops and meet with staff |
| 2019 | Anna Cooper | Advice sought by Graduate School of Health Sciences, Kobe University, Japan about gender equality in academia |
UK
| 2022 | Cindy Gray | Advice and feedback sought by School of Health and Social Care, University of Essex in relation to a forthcoming Athena Swan Gold application |
| 2020 | Nicola McMeekin | Presentation in Dept of Social Work, University of Northumbria about forming of Athena Swan older workers group |
| 2020 | Jane Goodfellow | Advice sought by Epilepsy Scotland on design and delivery of a disability event |
| 2019 | Jana Anderson | Advice sought by Parent and Carer Network, Sheffield Hallam University on developing and implementing a maternity and paternity buddy scheme |
| 2019 | Jana Anderson | Advice sought by Airbus on developing and implementing a maternity and paternity buddy scheme |
| 2019 | Cindy Gray | Presentation at University of Central Lancashire about Athena Swan journey |
| 2019 | Cindy Gray | Participation in "Top tips from 3 AS Gold Award holders" workshop, Department of Chemistry, University of York |
| 2019 | Cindy Gray | Advice sought by Leeds University School of Medicine about AS Gold application |
| 2019 | Cindy Gray | Presentation to Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool |
Local/internal
| 2023 | Jane Goodfellow | Design of invisible disabilities event held in 2019 used as the basis of a UofG senior management event in January 2023. |
| 2022 | Breda Cullen | Consulted by School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health about initiatives and materials relating to career progression |
| 2022 | SHW ECR working group, SHW professional services working group | SHW guidance on staff entitlement to personal and professional development time shared by College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences as an example of good practice |
| 2022 | Breda Cullen, Asha Costigan, Jane Goodfellow | Consulted by UofG Organisational Development (Internal Communication and Engagement) about approaches to Athena Swan and equality, diversity and inclusion work, engaging staff in processes and activities, and examples of good practice |
| 2022 | SHW WOW (wellbeing of older workers) group | Built a university-wide peer support forum for older workers in MS Teams |
| 2022 | Jane Goodfellow, Elise Whitley | Invited by Institute of Molecular Cell and Systems Biology to contribute to the design of an awareness-raising event on the topic of severe mental illness, its impact on staff and students, and how best to support affected colleagues |
| 2021 | Breda Cullen | Consulted by UofG External Relations workgroup for health and wellbeing about our Athena Swan initiatives. |
| 2021 | Caroline Haig | Worked with HR to enable staff across UofG to add personal pronouns to their web profile pages |
| 2021 | Nicola McMeekin, Janet Bouttell | Talk given to UofG Late Career/Early Career Research Group (LC-ECR) about the experience of being a LC-ECR and the forming of the WOW (wellbeing of older workers) group |
| 2021 | Asha Costigan, Jill Pell | UofG Central People & OD – Performance, Pay and Reward have based their performance and development review (PDR) checklist on the original SHW checklist, making it available on the HR website as part of the PDR process for all UofG staff since 2021. |
| 2021 | Rebecca Robinson, Nicola McMeekin, Janet Bouttell | Wellbeing of older workers (WOW) toolkit linked to from UofG HR website |
| 2021 | Jane Goodfellow, Elise Whitley | Advice sought by School of Culture and Creative Arts about the design of an invisible disabilities training quiz, and invitation to participate in forthcoming workshop |
| 2021 | Rebecca Robinson | Presentation to UofG Unison committee about Wellbeing of Older Workers (WOW) toolkit |
| 2021 | Nicola McMeekin, Janet Bouttell | Invitation from UofG Research and Innovation to present to a group of older ECRs |
| 2021 | Laura Hughes-McCormack | Promotion myth buster information model adopted by College of Social Sciences to support staff members considering promotion |
| 2021 | Jana Anderson | Information about parent buddying scheme sought by School of Life Sciences |
| 2021 | Asha Costigan | Email guidance and etiquette shared with School of Social and Political Sciences management team |
| 2021 | Nicola McMeekin, Janet Bouttell, Rebecca Robinson | Wellbeing of Older Workers (WOW) webinar delivered, with attendees from other areas of UoG. |
| 2021 | Jana Anderson, Elise Whitley, Asha Costigan | Joint workshop with Carers Scotland and the Carers Trust, with attendees from other areas of UoG. |
| 2021 | Nicola McMeekin, Janet Bouttell, Rebecca Robinson | Joint "Age inclusive workplaces" webinar delivered with Age Scotland, with attendees from other areas of UoG and beyond. One to one follow up on pensions information with some attendees. Possibility of future collaborative events under discussion with UofG HR. |
| 2021 | Jane Goodfellow, Elise Whitley | Information sought by Institute of Molecular Cell and Systems Biology on our invisible disabilities initiatives (posters, inclusiveness webpage, voices newsletter feature) and subsequent invitation to participate in collaborative project to produce "experts by experience" awareness-raising posters. |
| 2021 | Jane Goodfellow | Information about invisible disability initiatives sought by Institute of Cancer Sciences |
| 2021 | Asha Costigan | Advice on advancement application forms (research and teaching, grade 6 to grade 7) sought by research institute within College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences |
| 2020 | Cindy Gray, Breda Cullen, Jane Goodfellow, Asha Costigan, Jill Pell | Request from UofG Executive Director of Human Resources to use guidance on good practice for remote working |
| 2020 | Cindy Gray, Jane Goodfellow | Advice sought by MVLS on the design and delivery of an invisible disabilities event for students |
| 2020 | Janet Bouttell, Nicola McMeekin, Abby Fraser | Advice sought by UofG Institute of Cancer Sciences about establishing an Athena Swan group for older (50+) workers |
| 2020 | Jane Goodfellow | Invisible disabilities event (May 2019) used as template for university-wide session for senior managers, with IHW contributors |
| 2020 | Lorraine Waddell | Request by UofG Equality and Diversity Unit to be able to share details of our BSL café to British Sign Language users within the wider university community |
| 2020 | Lorraine Waddell | Monthly British Sign Language (BSL) cafes offered university-wide |
| 2020 | Asha Costigan | Advice sought by UofG School of Humanities about engaging professional services staff in Athena Swan activities |
| 2017 | Anna Cooper, Asha Costigan | Our initiatives/practices adopted in other areas of UofG e.g. parent buddying, mentoring, amending of job description text to include information about Athena Swan, student maternity scheme, promotion workshops, work allocation etiquette, funding for maternity returners/part-time workers/single parents and workers with special circumstances |
If you are interested in collaborating with us on an equality, diversity and inclusion initiative or would like to invite one of our staff members to speak at an event or act in an advisory capacity, please email shwadmin@glasgow.ac.uk