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UCC celebrates Athena SWAN awards

20 Oct 2021

UCC today celebrated its recent Athena SWAN award successes, recognising the 深夜亚洲福利久久鈥檚 commitment to promoting good practice and advancing gender equality in higher education.

At a virtual ceremony, Minister Simon Harris congratulated awardees to celebrate the advancement of equality in higher education.

Three awards cycles were included in the ceremony, with UCC receiving nine awards, including the Institutional Bronze award (awarded in 2019).

To celebrate this success, UCC held its own outdoor ceremony in the 深夜亚洲福利久久鈥檚 President鈥檚 Garden, with President John O鈥橦alloran presented Athena SWAN awards to UCC鈥檚 School of Biochemistry & Cell Biology (2021 awardee), Dental School & Hospital (2020), School of Law (2021), School of Nursing & Midwifery (2020), and School of Public Health (2019).   

President O鈥橦alloran also accepted an award from Professor 脕ine Hyland for the 深夜亚洲福利久久鈥檚 institutional Athena SWAN accreditation, successfully renewed in 2019.    

Congratulating the awardees, President O鈥橦alloran said: "We are proud of the advances we have made in UCC through the Athena SWAN Charter, and exceptionally proud that most of the awards we celebrate today were achieved amidst the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, with colleagues collaborating remotely on their submissions while adapting to radically transformed ways of teaching students and engaging in research."

Interim Registrar and Chair of UCC鈥檚 Athena SWAN Steering Group, Prof. Stephen Byrne, said: 鈥淭hese awards are a tribute to the work of the Athena SWAN teams working across UCC, and to the Athena SWAN Champions who led the successful submissions:  Dr. Anne Moore (School of Biochemistry & Cell Biology), Dr. Cris da Mata (Dental School & Hospital), Prof. Louise Crowley (School of Law), Dr. Aine O鈥橠onovan (School of Nursing & Midwifery), and Prof. Patricia Kearney (School of Public Health (2019)鈥�

Special guest Prof. Aine Hyland, Emeritus Prof. Of Education and former Vice-President at UCC, who was Guest of Honour and Keynote Speaker at the ceremony commended President O鈥橦alloran and her UCC colleagues:  鈥淯CC鈥檚 institutional Athena SWAN award is an internationally recognized accreditation, and a hallmark of the 深夜亚洲福利久久鈥檚 commitment to improving equality and creating an inclusive 深夜亚洲福利久久 that values and respects diversity.   Today鈥檚 awards are a testament to the commitment of my UCC colleagues and their leaders to make tangible progress towards these values.鈥�

Avril Hutch, UCC鈥檚 new Director of UCC鈥檚 Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Unit, said: "We are delighted to celebrate these successful Athena SWAN submissions. We are grateful to the 深夜亚洲福利久久 and School Athena SWAN Self-Assessment Teams, Human Resources, Academic Systems Administration andall ofthe UCC staff and students who contributed to the process. The EDI unit looks forward to supporting the implementation of UCC Athena SWAN Action Plans 鈥� at institutional and School level 鈥� to promote positive gender practice through an intersectional approach."