What the data showed us

Kate HardyInstitute of Reproductive & Developmental Biology

Hammersmith Campus

What the data showed us

Bronze award: Data required

• Raw numbers and % women– Students; applications, offers, acceptances, results

• UG• PGTC; MSc, MRes, FT & PT• PG Research, FT & PT

– Staff (Academic/research)• Grade; Clinical/Non-clinical• Turnover, reasons for leaving• New posts; Applications, offers, acceptances,• Promotions; Applications, approval at department, faculty and

college level

– Comments on key issues• Recruitment, support, mentoring, culture, promotions, committee

representation, maternity leave, flexible working, outreach activities

• Action Plan

Data Source

• Raw data– HR– Departmental records

• Views of staff and students– Online survey– Focus groups

What we submitted

• Application for Bronze– 43 pages of text– 72 graphs– 12 tables

• Action Plan– Objective– Description &

implementation– Responsibility– Milestones– Success measure– 18 pages of tables

Surgery and Cancer

• Teaching– Undergraduate–MSc & MRes– PhD

• Staff– Non-clinical– Clinical

Undergraduate level

Postgraduate MSc Courses

Postgraduate MRes Courses

PhD Students

UG & PG applications & grades

• No concern with percentage of female– Applications – Offers – Acceptances

• No inequality in class/grade awarded

Academic staff: promotion

• 2009-2013• 24 men, 11 women applied• 18 men (75%), 8 women (73%)

approved by College

Career Progression: Non-clinical

Career Progression: Clinical

Key transition point: Postdoc

• What do postdocs want to do?

• What are they able to achieve?

• More support to achieve ambitions

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Postdocs

What can YOU do?

• Seek a mentor–Mentoring scheme rolling out in October

• Proactively engage with the PRDP process

• Make use of our fantastic Postdoc Development Centre at Imperial College

We NEED data….from YOU

We must demonstrate that we are getting better

Please respond to our surveys and

join our focus groups to enable our success with our

Athena SWAN Silver application in April 2015