Round Table Gender Equality: Athena SWAN Pilot in Australia

Carolyn Oldham is Professor at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering. She earned a BSc with Honours in Chemistry and a PhD in Environmental Engineering. Since 1994, she has worked to integrate her cross-disciplinary research interests in transport processes, environmental chemistry and spatial and temporal patchiness, and brings the same trans-disciplinary approach to her teaching. She is visiting the Department of Hydrology as International Fellow of the University of Bayreuth in June 2017.

Carolyn Oldham remains one of the few women promoted to Professor of Engineering in Australian research intensive universities. She is an active mentor for junior academic women, chairs the UWA Leadership Development for Women Planning Group and initiated an Australian study on optimizing the performance of women academics in engineering. She is currently Project Lead for UWA's Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) Athena Swan initiative.

The Athena SWAN Charter is an evaluation and accreditation program that has been running for over a decade in the UK, with tremendous success in enhancing gender equity for science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine. Carolyn Oldham will tell about her experiences with this program in Australia.

Organizers: 
BayCEER Office
& Equal Opportunities Department University of Bayreuth