Athena SWAN Self-Assessment Panel: Meeting

Date of Meeting:Tuesday 2nd September 2014

Venue: EB 1.05

Attendees: Alison McGrand AM (HR), Sharon Cahill SC (Psychology),), Mary Linington ML (CASS), Caroline Edmunds CE ( Psy); Olivia Corcoran OC ( HBSc); Nandini Hayes NH (HBSc);Irfaan Arif IA (E&D)

Agenda
  1. Apologies Membership of self- assessment group; welcome to new members
  2. Minutes of previous meeting and matters arising
  3. Evaluation of current Data
  4. Action Planning
  5. Future meetings
  6. AOB

Notes & Actions
  1. Apologies:
Martin Longstaff ; Matthew Almond; Caroline Dunmore
  1. Minutes of previous meetings
These were read and agreed.
Issues arising included:
  • Use monthly research seminars to disseminate AS work
  • Cornelia might help at consultation meeting; OC to follow up
  • ML and AM to meet Unions at end of Oct – AM to organise.
  • Reports on AS data to go to individual Deans who should share with Research management teams.
  • Annual AS reports to go to Deans group and RMTs
  • AM pointed out the re-organisation meant ULT now formed ( VCG and Deans) so AS will report here as well as E&D
  1. Data
  • 3-year analysis by school and STEMM non STEMM was discussed. Changes reflect UEL policy on redundancy.
  • Discussion about recruitment and promotion. UEL has clear policy about advertising Principal Lecturer jobs – no automatic promotion
  • SFR and PRF equivalent to PL and SL – resulted for move across when grades made equivalent
  • Questions about professors, readers and management grades- Profs and readers combined – management separate. Separate readers from professors and do a detailed analysis of ProfGrades. ML
  • Hourly paid lecturers are appointed by individual schools and HR has no central data. During AS process we must look at this – include in action plan.
  • ACE needs more exploring
  1. Action Plan
  • The draft was reviewed and each proposed point discussed in detail.ML to write revised plan. Draft 2 to be circulated to group by ML
  1. Future meetings
  • Consultation meeting discussed – either 24/9 or 1/10 depending on speaker
  • ASAP: 8th October @ 10.30 in Dox
  1. AOB
  • Discussed finding support for data analysis.Irfaan doing recruitment data analysis.

Future Meetings 2014
Further meetings:
5Th November @ 1.30 in Stratford ( SC to find room)
28th November @11 in Dox