Details of Activity
The department identified a gender imbalance on its committees and governance panels, and decided to review the representation of female staff. This led to recommendations for demographic changes within these decision making bodies, carried out through the promotion of female staff to academic titles. Female staff eligible for promotion to academic title were actively approached by the review team in order to carry out the recommended changes.
Outcomes
By October 2014, NDM had an additional twenty female members of staff who had been promoted to an academic title and therefore matched the criteria to join the thirteen committees that existed. Most notably, the 2014 submission highlighted the nominated appointment of a female professor to the Council of the University, who the department actively campaigned for.