The Equality Charters - Good Practice Initiatives

The new, evidence-based Good Practice Database is for those working to advance gender and race equality in higher education through Athena Swan and the Race Equality Charter.

The database aims to celebrate the breadth of gender and race equality initiatives taking place across the higher education sector and to provide Advance HE members with practical ideas and encourage them to trial new initiatives adapted to their contexts. The initiatives are drawn from recent analysis of selected successful applications. 
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Use the search filters below to find Athena Swan and Race Equality Charter initiative application types.
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Queen's University Belfast: School of Biological Sciences
Queen's University Belfast
Initiative Theme: Balance, Targeted to women/men
Target Group: Academic staff
Review of gender breakdown of decision-making committees
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Queen's University Belfast: School of Biological Sciences
Queen's University Belfast
Initiative Theme: Culture, Marketing
Target Group: Academic staff
Showcase of female-led activities in online platforms
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Queen's University Belfast: School of Biological Sciences
Queen's University Belfast
Initiative Theme: Marketing, Recruitment, Targeted to women/men
Target Group: Academic staff
Presentation of Athena SWAN logo and statement on gender equality
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Queen's University Belfast: School of Biological Sciences
Queen's University Belfast
Initiative Theme: Mentoring, Promotion, Targeted to women/men
Target Group: Academic staff
Positive impacts of mentorship
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De Montfort University: Local community
De Montfort University
Initiative Theme: Recruitment
Target Group: Professional and support staff
Engagement and recruitment from within the local community
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De Montfort University: Development Initiatives
De Montfort University
Initiative Theme: Career development, Promotion
Target Group: Academic staff
Development initiatives and opportunities for UK BAME staff
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De Montfort University: Growth strategy
De Montfort University
Initiative Theme: Recruitment
Target Group: Academic staff
Growth strategy for the recruitment of BAME Lecturers
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De Montfort University: BAME participation
De Montfort University
Initiative Theme: Marketing, Outreach
Target Group: Undergraduate students
Increasing BAME participation on an international experience programme
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Warwick Medical School: Gender balance
University of Warwick
Initiative Theme: Culture, Gender balance
Target Group: Academic staff, Postgraduate students, Undergraduate students
The School aimed to develop initiatives which would highlight female role models and better reflect the male/female ratio among its staff.
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Warwick Medical School: Diversity training
University of Warwick
Initiative Theme: Culture
Target Group: Academic staff, Professional and support staff
With the aim of improving overall staff awareness of equality and diversity issues, the School set up online equality and diversity training for all staff; modules included 'Diversity in the Workplace' and 'Recruitment and Selection'.
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University of Exeter Medical School: Parental leave policies
University of Exeter
Initiative Theme: Accommodating caring responsibilities, Career development
Target Group: Academic staff, Professional and support staff
Providing quality maternity, adoption or paternity options for its staff was clearly an important goal for the School, which set up confidential parental entitlement meetings.
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University of Exeter Medical School: Female professors
University of Exeter
Initiative Theme: Gender balance, Promotion, Recruitment
Target Group: Academic staff
The Medical School was conscious to increase the number of female professors it employed and aimed to achieve this through the inclusion of female profiles in the recruitment campaign for the expansion of the School's professoriate, in order to further encourage applications from potential female candidates.