Introducing the Programme

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Introducing the Programme

• IoP working group April 2002
• SET Fair November 2002
• Aims
• co-ordinate activities
• monitor internal awareness
• initiate new projects
• Approach
• avoid anecdote
• ensure thorough evaluation
• mainstream where appropriate
• collaborate join existing initiatives
• plagiarise!

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The Problem Recruitment
Source AQA
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The Problem Retention

• UK Physics Departments over 10 years
• Researchers to lecturers
• 30 male
• 16 female (and falling)
• Lecturers to senior lecturers/readers
• 100 male
• 60 female
• Survey of physics/engineering based FTSE
  companies
• 0.5 Executive Directors are female
• 6 Non-Executive Directors are female

Sources HESA, University of Essex
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The IoP
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Girls in Physics

• 3 Target Areas
• Survey and evaluation of initiatives
• Good practice case studies
• International comparisons

Source IUPAP 2002
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Women in the workplace

• University Site Visits Scheme
• panel visit to establish gender culture
• all findings completely confidential
• aim to establish and share good practice
• complimentary to Athena
• Establish a working group from industry
• determine and share good practice
• extend the visits scheme
• Study of female involvement in spin-off companies
  

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Career Breaks

• Commission a study with a 3-fold mandate
• Survey of IoP members
• how many are on a career break?
• for how long?
• Identify schemes already available eg. Daphne
  Jackson Trust
• work-life practices outside of SET
• IoP as an Institution and employer
• Implement best practice

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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity
Albert Einstein