23 Sep 2014
Best practice: First Athena Swan gold award for boosting the role of women in Cambridge
The University of Cambridge has received its first Gold award for boosting the role of women in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) departments.Athena SWAN Awards are given for success in developing employment practices to further and support the careers of women in academia.
Alongside the Gold award – which went to the Department of Physics - four other departments were also recognised with Bronze awards, the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) announced today (Thursday, May 1).