Practical, positive ideas for advancing gender equality and inclusion in chemistry — the sector-leading and beacon activities our member schools report in their Athena Swan applications and action plans. Choose an area you’d like to support, and explore what has worked elsewhere.
Pick an area to see relevant ideas below. Each one comes from a real chemistry department and notes what it involves — click through for a summary, then for how it worked.
Beyond individual initiatives, these are the approaches that schools across the network have found make gender-equality work sustainable — how to set it up, run it, and keep it going.
This hub is curated by the network rather than crowd-sourced. We draw the ideas here from members’ Athena Swan applications and action plans — including those of Queen’s University Belfast, University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin — the activities that institutions themselves report as working, and write them up in a shareable form. If your school has an approach you’d like reflected here, or you spot something we should update, just get in touch and we’ll add it.