University College Cork has achieved two new Athena SWAN Bronze Awards for gender equality in higher education.

The School of Microbiology has earned its first Athena SWAN award and the School of Pharmacy at UCC has successfully renewed its Athena SWAN accreditation. 

The School of Chemistry and  the School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences (BEES) have become the first UCC Schools to successfully renew their Athena SWAN accreditation. 

The UCC School of Law has earned a departmental-level Bronze Athena SWAN Award. 

Please join us on March 8th 2021 from 2.30-6.15pm to celebrate International Women's Day. 

For full programme please see here: President's Athena SWAN Symposium 2021

All welcome, please click here to register, Please join us for all or some of the event.

Two UCC Schools in the College of Medicine & Health have earned Athena SWAN awards. AdvanceHE announced today the conferring of the awards on the School of Nursing & Midwifery and the Dental School & Hospital. The announcement follows news earlier this year of the conferring of an award on the School of Public Health, bringing to eight the number of School-level awards in UCC.

University College Cork commits to significant action on gender equality as it celebrates its second Athena SWAN Bronze Award.

Friday March 6th, join us in the Aula Maxima for the third annual Athena SWAN President's Symposium.

UCC’s efforts to foster gender equality have been recognised with the awarding of two significant awards.

This event was held over Friday, 8th March, 6pm and Saturday, 9th March, 9-4.30pm, Aula Maxima, UCC.

Please follow this link to the podcast of the round table on the history and legacy of Women's Studies at UCC.

Podcast

Athena SWAN National Committee - Events and Updates August 2019.

Ending Sexual Harassment and Violence in Third-Level Education (ESHTE) conference takes place from 9.30am-4pm on Thursday, 7 March next in Liberty Hall, Dublin.

The UCC School of Nursing and Midwifery Athena Swan Committee Chair (Dr Aine Horgan) and Members (Drs Mohamad Saab, Angela Flynn, Vera McCarthy, and Noeleen Brady) attended a full-day workshop entitled: “The Dichotomy of Athena SWAN in Nursing and Midwifery.”

Providing support for Trans colleagues in UCC

Update from the independent review of Athena SWAN

House of STEM has teamed up with Pride in STEM, InterEngineering, and Out in STEM to organise the first ever International Day of LGBT+ People in STEM

Athena SWAN awards for UCC’s School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences (BEES), School of Chemistry and School of Pharmacy

A series of Women’s Studies talks with the Centre for Adult Continuing Education, (ACE) UCC

Monday 16th April, 7:15 p.m.

Boole 2 (UCC campus)

7 p.m., G10, Civil Engineering Building

As part of Equality Week, we celebrated International Women’s Day on Thursday, March 8^th with our inaugural annual President’s Athena SWAN Alumni Symposium, in Devere Hall, 2 – 5 p.m.

Events running from March 5th to 9th

Develop yourself and pursue your goals, Thursday 1st March 2018

Equal Physics Opportunities Network in Academia

Become a student member of WITS at the Cooperage in UCC

February 19th 4-6 p.m.

Celebrating Women in Science

A networking event hosted by the College of Medicine and Health, UCC

Celebrating UCC's University of Sanctuary Status & Supporting Cork City's bid to become a City of Sanctuary.

THE, January 18, 2018 by David Matthews

A public talk with Jack Halberstam

St. John's Central College, Cork

22 Feb 6:30-8 p.m.

A new single sector agency in the UK, called Advance HE, will be created by impending merger between the ECU, the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHA).

1st February 2018, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson St., Dublin 2

Athena SWAN - Limits and Possibilities: How far can Athena SWAN take us towards gender equality in Irish higher education? (Dec 13th, Dublin)

The Schools of Pharmacy, Chemistry and BEES are preparing to submit applications for a Bronze Athena SWAN Award.

Professor Louise Kenny (UCC), Director and founding member of Metabolomic Diagnostics and winner of the prestigious WMB Women in Technology Award 2017, has raised €1.6m in funding along with her team.

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission invites you to attend events to assist public bodies in understanding their statutory Public Sector Duty obligations.

Join WITS and Engineers Ireland at 6 p.m. on November 16th for "The Early Years of Your Career: Challenges and Opportunities" in G05, Western Gateway Building.

WITS Ireland: A plaque was unveiled to honour Matilda Knowles, the renowned natural scientist, at the Botanic Gardens, Dublin recently.

Attn Students!  You are invited to a WITS Pizza and Networking Party on October 16th!

Congratulations to the Empowering Women @ Tyndall team, who were presented with the Frank McGrath Perpetual Award for Equality and Welfare yesterday evening at the 2017 UCC Staff Recognition Awards!

Aula Maxima, UCC, Thursday October 12th, 4:30 p.m.

UCC School of Applied Psychology Invited Talks Series 2017

Professor Kathleen Manning

Activist, author and professor Jennifer Finney Boylan is one of the best known transgender women in the work.

Listen to her speak on Gender and Resistance at the School of English, UCC, O'Rahilly Building Room 2.12, Wednesday 4th October, 3-4 p.m.

A public consultation process is now open on the gender pay gap.  See here for more information.

One year, 47 interviews, five colleges, 20 courses!

The UK's Equality Challenge Unit gender equality model Athena SWAN is to be piloted in the US

Academic research plays an important role in uncovering bias and helping to shape a more equal society.  But academia also struggles to adequately confront persistent and entrenched gender bias in its own corridors.

WITS is holding a workshop on September 20th on the Hows and Whys of Board Membership.

A year on from the publication of the Report of the Expert Group: HEA National Review of Gender Equality in Higher Education Institutions (June 2016), the Higher Educaiton Authority (HEA) has published the second iteration of the Higher Education Institutional Staff Profiles by Gender.

Inspirefest 2017

6th-8th July

Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin

As part of our Empowering Women at Tyndall Programme*, the team in Tyndall are delighted to announce the next Inspiring Leaders Presentations, which will be delivered by Olive Murphy, RF Silicon Evaluation Engineer, Analog Devices.

How to develop a dynamic speaking style

June 21st 6:15-8 p.m.

WITS are hosting a talk on Unconscious Bias in Cork on the 9th of May.

Combining Law and Technology

Monday 20^th March 2017

The president announces a new Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Unit at UCC. 

SPEAKER: Colm Mulcahy (Spelman College, USA)

March 14th