Equality and inclusion

The School of Healthcare has been a member of the Athena SWAN Charter since 2012 and we are committed its key principles to improve gender equality.  As a research intensive organisation and one of the few large programmes of nursing in a Russell Group University, we face two major gender challenges which underpin our strategy. First, we recruit small numbers of men to undergraduate health programmes, a national problem and one in which School staff are leading on national solutions. Second, we have a leaky pipeline in terms of female academic career development from junior grades to more senior roles.