UCC School of Nursing and Midwifery Annual Report 2020

Teaching, Contribution to Community and Practice, Awards

First Athena SWAN award in Ireland in the disciplines of Nursing and Midwifery awarded to UCC

Dr Aine Horgan who chaired the Athena SWAN Committee led the way to success for the School of Nursing and Midwifery to earning an Athena SWAN Bronze Awards – which focuses on advancing gender equality, representation and progression for all. This is the first Athena SWAN award in Ireland in the disciplines of Nursing & Midwifery. This success was supported by Professor Josephine Hegarty (Head of School of Nursing and Midwifery), Professor John O’Halloran (Interim President), Professor Helen Whelton, (Head of the College of Medicine & Health), and Professor Frank Burke, (Chair of the College of Medicine and Health Athena SWAN Steering Group). This success would not have been possible without key contributions from Dr Vera McCarthy, Dr Mohamad Saab, Ms Regina Murphy, Professor Eileen Savage, as well as the entire School. UCC’s Athena SWAN success continues to rest on excellent data support from HR’s HRIS team, and colleagues in Academic Systems Administration. Thanks also to the Athena SWAN team in the EDI Unit for their support to UCC’s Athena SWAN applicants, Ms Madison Bick (Equality Data Analyst) and Ann King (Project Officer).

The success of our application demonstrates our sustained commitment to local equality action and the development of School-level gender equality action plans in a context of central support and leadership. Building on this success, we will continue to expand our engagement with Athena SWAN and the wider EDI agenda and look forward to implementing our School level action plan.

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