ATHENA SWAN BRONZE DEPARTMENT AWARDS Recognise that in addition to institution-wide policies, the department is working to promote gender equality and to identify and address challenges particular to the department and discipline. SWAN SILVER DEPARTMENT In addition to the future planning required for Bronze department recognition, Silver department awards recognise that the department has taken action in response to previously identified challenges and can demonstrate the impact of the actions implemented. Note: Not all institutions use the term are many equivalent ‘department’. academic groupings with different names, sizes and compositions. The definition of a can be found in the Athena SWAN awards handbook. ‘department’ SWAN AWARDS This form should be used for applications for Bronze and Silver department awards. You should complete each section of the application applicable to the award level you are applying for. Additional areas for Silver applications are highlighted throughout the form: 5.2, 5.4, 5.5(iv) If you need to insert a landscape page in your application, please copy and paste the template page at the end of the document, as per the instructions on that page. Please do not insert any section breaks as to do so will disrupt the page numbers. The overall word limit for applications are shown in the following table. are no specific word limits for the individual sections and you may distribute words over each of the sections as appropriate. At the end of every section, please state how many words you have used in that section. We have provided the following recommendations as a guide.
ATHENA SWAN BRONZE DEPARTMENT AWARDS Recognise that in addition to institution-wide policies, the department is working to promote gender equality and to identify and address challenges particular to the department and discipline. SWAN DEPARTMENT In addition to the future planning required for Bronze department recognition, Silver department awards recognise that the department has taken action in response to previously identified challenges and can demonstrate the impact of the actions implemented. Note: Not all institutions use the term ‘department’. are many equivalent academic groupings with different names, sizes and compositions. The definition of a ‘department’ can be found in the Athena SWAN awards handbook. SWAN AWARDS This form should be used for applications for Bronze and Silver department awards. You should complete each section of the application applicable to the award level you are applying for. Additional areas for Silver applications are highlighted throughout the form: 5.2, 5.4, 5.5(iv) If you need to insert a landscape page in your application, please copy and paste the template page at the end of the document, as per the instructions on that page. Please do not insert any section breaks as to do so will disrupt the page numbers. The overall word limit for applications are shown in the following table. are no specific word limits for the individual sections and you may distribute words over each of the sections as appropriate. At the end of every section, please state how many words you have used in that section. We have provided the following recommendations as a guide. SILVER
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