Athena SWAN awards: progress in addressing gender equality

Principal theme: Valuing our staff

We’re continuing to make great progress in achieving Athena SWAN awards, which recognise commitment to and action towards addressing gender equality in higher education.

In October 2016, the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at UCL was the first UCL department to receive a Gold Athena SWAN award - one of only two allocated to universities in this round. The award recognises “significant and sustained progression and achievement by the department in promoting gender equality and to address challenges particular to the discipline. Gold departments should be beacons of achievement in gender equality and should champion and promote good practice to the wider community.”

UCL also achieved a number of Bronze awards in October 2016, including its first whole faculty award – for The Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment – as well as Bronze departmental awards for UCL Chemistry, UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering, UCL Earth Sciences and UCL Geography.

Overall, the university now has* 15 Bronze awards, 16 Silver awards and one Gold award, as well as a university-wide Silver award.

*This information was correct in Autumn Term 2016, when this review was published: for more up to date information please see the UCL Athena Swan webpage.

We are also the only institution in the country to hold both an Institutional Athena SWAN Silver award and a Bronze Race Equality Charter Mark award.

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