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MUNSTER Technological University (MTU) has achieved its first Athena Swan Bronze Award as a new Technological University.
The Athena Swan Bronze Award showcases MTU’s current and future commitment to enhance Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) at university level and beyond.
Receiving this prestigious accreditation paves the way for future improvements to equality to be made an institutional level, and also allows individual university departments to seek departmental awards.
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MTU made its institutional submission in November 2023, following an eighteen-month long application process.
This process included undertaking an institutional EDI Survey; collating and analysing all evidence required to meet the submission requirements; and compiling and committing to a comprehensive evidence-based, four-year plan to improve equality for all MTU staff and students.
This work was carried out by thirty members of the MTU Athena Swan Self-Assessment Team, made up of staff and student representatives across many campuses and departments, led by the Chair, Professor Margaret Linehan, with the support of the EDI team at MTU including Siobhan Kangataran, EDI Manager and Monica Moisuc, EDI Officer.
MTU President, Professor Maggie Cusack, commented: “This Athena Swan Bronze Award will help us instil equality as a core value across our university in line with the goals set out in our Strategic Plan, Our Shared Vision 2022-27.”
Professor Margaret Linehan, Athena Swan Chair at MTU said: “This award now recognizes work undertaken to address gender equality more broadly, and not just barriers to progression that affect women. As a University, we are prepared to tackle behaviours and cultures that detract from the safety and collegiality of our work and study environments for people of all genders, including not tolerating gender-based violence, discrimination, bullying, and harassment. It has been a privilege to work with colleagues across MTU to achieve this accreditation.”
Siobhan Kangataran, EDI Manager at MTU added: “Athena Swan has evolved over the years, expanding significantly to become increasingly intersectional and inclusive of all staff and students; the achievement of this Bronze Award demonstrates a long-term commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for all at MTU.”
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