Target Group
Academic staff
Initiative Theme
Career development
Promotion
Initiative institution
Imperial College
Application type
Athena Swan Initiative
Publication date
An important route to employ more female academics is to support the careers of existing postdoctoral researchers within the department. In 2018, female researchers were successful in obtaining Lecturer posts within the Department. They had originally been appointed as postdocs, and then subsequently as independent fellows, prior to obtaining their lectureship positions.