2022-01-14

Two new student representative members, Ying Wang and James Westfield, were welcomed to the committee.

The Athena Swan Silver Award application, due for submission in seven months’ time, is at the stage of draft review, to be completed by the end of April 2022.

The EDC discussed the content of an advisory document addressing possible discriminatory elements of office sharing in the department, which has been proposed in light of the limited working space currently available.  Further work will be done on this in order to submit the advice and awareness-raising information to the leadership team later this month.

Proposals for International Women’s Day, 8th March 2022, were made and in view of the current lack of certainty regarding gatherings, an online program was considered the wisest course.  The work to produce both format and content of this program was initiated and will be ongoing in the coming weeks.