In April 2015 the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences received the Athena SWAN Bronze award.

The School is working towards an application for a Silver Athena Swan award reflecting equality and diversity throughout all School practices. Currently the School working group is implementing an online survey about flexible working and equality issues.

• Athena SWAN Silver - Action plan (PDF 275kb)

Further information is available here:

• Athena SWAN - Equality and Diversity statement (PDF 61Kb)
• Practical resources for parents and carers at the University of Birmingham
• The Athena SWAN principles
• Practical resources for dealing with bereavement in the workplace
• Case Studies

For University of Birmingham staff

The university has a mentor matching system – to enquire about finding a mentor you can use this page: https://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/development/opportunities/coaching.aspx

There are useful central training courses available to all academic staff from POD that the Athena SWAN surveys/focus groups have identified as particularly useful and relevant: on developing resilience, project management, people management and communication https://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/development/opportunities/atoz.aspx

For students (Undergraduate and Postgraduate)

Maternity/paternity/adoption leave information for students can be found in the Canvas online student handbook https://canvas.bham.ac.uk/courses/9558/pages/faqs

UPDATE

The School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences now has a bookable breast feeding room for women expressing milk who do not have access to a private office. The room is 146a and is lockable and has a fridge available for storage.