© Imperial College LondonPage 1 Progress towards a Juno champion Blackett Laboratory’s Juno Committee: Lesley Cohen, Fay Dowker, Mag Bak-Maier, Gareth Parry, Terry Rudolph, Adrian Sutton, Christine Yates Departmental 08 stats: 26% UG, 18% PG, 18%RA, 10% academic staff

Juno Visit to Oxford Physics Feb 2009 Page 2 Outline College and Faculty Strategy (LFC) Physics Juno Committee Progress (AS)

Juno Visit to Oxford Physics Feb 2009 Page 3 College Strategy and History 1996 Publication of “Voices from Women in Science” by the AWISE group 1998 College established the Rector’s Committee on Academic Opportunities – AOC. It reports to the rector. Past chair Prof Dame Julia Higgins Current chair Prof Dot Griffiths (Deputy Principal of Imperial College Business School ) Senior college level management: in HR, vice-or principals of faculties, pro rector for education

Juno Visit to Oxford Physics Feb 2009 Page 4 Some Achievements of the AOC 1999 Commissioned a report “Academic Progress of Women at Imperial College” 2000 Established Elsie Widdowson Fellowships for female academic staff on return from maternity 2001 Established the Annual Athena Lecture 2003 Equal pay audits introduced 2005 Won Silver Swann award Nov 2007 Established Ambassadors to Academic Women – three in total one for each faculty.

Juno Visit to Oxford Physics Feb 2009 Page 5 Faculty of Natural Sciences – FONS The first 12 months Appointed an academic ambassador Set up a Faculty Academic Women committee, 5 departments and key HR staff (equal opp., staff devel.,). Each representative chairs a departmental committee and senior male departmental figures are committee members. Chair of each committee becomes member of departmental management committee and reports there (monthly) Academic ambassador reports progress from the departments to Faculty Management committee. Head of Faculty now reports directly to Council.

Juno Visit to Oxford Physics Feb 2009 Page 6 College Council FONS Faculty Committee for Academic Women Physics Juno Chemistry RSC MathsLife SciencesCentre for Environmental Policy Rector Academic Opportunity Committee

Juno Visit to Oxford Physics Feb 2009 Page 7 Physics Juno Committee Progress in the first 14 months

Juno Visit to Oxford Physics Feb 2009 Page 8 The Blackett Laboratory are Juno Supporters. We have strong support of senior management in the department and in the Faculty of Natural Sciences Head of Department HOD Head of Groups HOGs Research Groups and support structure Juno Committee – formed November 2007 Juno supporters since Feb 2008 Meetings held every 6 weeks Report directly to HoGs Faculty Academic Women Committee – representation from all Departments in the faculty Faculty Management Committee The Juno Ctte has 2 HoGs (1 male and 1 female senior member of the department)

Juno Visit to Oxford Physics Feb 2009 Page 9 Impact of the Juno Code of Practice The Faculty FONS Academic Women Committee have adopted the Juno guideline table as a simple guideline to implement best practice across the departments in the Faculty of Natural Sciences. This means that we are all striving to achieve the same goals. FONS: Chemistry, Maths, Physics, Life Sciences (three divisions), Centre for Environmental Study We have linked web sites listing the Departmental committees and all female academic staff in each department. Each department has adopted the same best practice having senior male figures on their ‘Juno’ committees and having direct reporting upwards into the departmental management meetings. This can be directly ascribed to the clear and workable nature of the Juno best practice implementation guide strategy.

Juno Visit to Oxford Physics Feb 2009 Page 10 Mag Bak Maier (HR staff development) interviewed academic women in Blackett Main Issues raised at interviews transparency HOG role induction communication hierarchy culture (support staff and academic staff) mentoring quality career support

Juno Visit to Oxford Physics Feb 2009 Page 11 Improving transparency Promotion Procedures in the Blackett Laboratory “Job Description for Heads of Groups” Both documents ratified by departmental senior management and put up on the web We still need to ensure wide broadcasting of these documents and plan to discuss at next departmental staff meetings.

Juno Visit to Oxford Physics Feb 2009 Page 12 First Web Survey of All staff at Departmental level has just been conducted 1.Carried out in October Results have now been analysed and circulated to all staff 3.Will be discussed at special staff meeting Feb 26th. 4.Is being disseminated to individual groups Female academic staff Female RA staff New RA staff committee.

Juno Visit to Oxford Physics Feb 2009 Page 13 Implementation of Juno best practice – Ensuring that at least one female academic sits on every short listing and interview panel – is proving difficult to implement and we are looking to central college policy to change best practise guidance. Best practice on moving from a very successful informal mentoring process to a formalised and monitored one. Has been requested strongly across the department from all academic and RA staff (not gender specific). We will have IoP/Royal Society “assessment” visit in March 09 We will write our Juno championship and Silver Swan documentation summer 09

Juno Visit to Oxford Physics Feb 2009 Page 14 Academic women in Physics Professor Lesley Cohen Professor Michele Karen Dougherty Dr Helen Fay Dowker Dr Marina Isabelle Florence Galand Professor Joanna Dorothy Haigh Professor Jenny Nelson Dr Juliet Clare Pickering Dr Julia Karen Sedgbeer Dr JiSeon Kim Dr Amanda Chatten Dr Elizabeth Ann Lucek Dr Yvonne Christine Unruh Juno Committee A committee set up to discuss, receive and disseminate issues raised related to academic women within the department. Members are: Prof Gareth Parry Prof Adrian Sutton Dr Terry Rudolph Dr Faye Dowker Prof Lesley Cohen Christine Yates Magdalena Bak-Maier We are active supporters of the Juno code of practice introduced by the Institute of Physics see details about Project Juno at: