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The Athena Swan awards are awarded to higher education (HE) institutions who are able to prove commitment to ensuring that gender equality is embedded in their everyday routines and procedures.

The Media Production department were the first department at ÂãÁÄÖ±²¥ to achieve an award in 2018.

Our Athena Swan department leads work with DEDIC to feed back and forth the progress of their action plan, ensuring gender equality and the Athena Swan charter continues to be embedded in the department.

Students are the largest part of our department community, and the reason that we are here. As a student in the Department of Media Production, we recognise that your background, abilities, ambitions and beliefs are, unique, central to your identity and to your future. 

Working together, we must ensure that every individual is recognised, supported and championed, from before you arrive at the university, through your study and recreational time with us, and as you develop your careers. 

In particular, we recognise that some of you are not yet fully recognised, supported or championed by the communities you find yourself within and around. It is our job, together, to change that. 

We must ensure that: 

• Minorities have representation within the department through DEDIC and student representative roles 
• Special needs students have access to facilities and resources for support 
• The department enables diversity and inclusivity within the curriculum and learning resources.  

As a DEDIC student member, you will be committed to creating a community that treats everyone equally regardless of race, disability, gender, sexuality and gender identity, background or belief. 

Working with the committee, the department and the university, you will not only be informing the culture and actions of this institution, but developing vital skills that will help you inform the organisations you go on to work with, and to create a more inclusive and equal society. 

Chair

Carina Westling: [email protected]

Staff members

Laura Crossley: â¶Ä¯[email protected]

Max Gee: [email protected]

Kathryn McDonald: [email protected]

Isabel Forrest: [email protected]

Samantha Iwowo: [email protected]

Brenda Masters: [email protected]

Keith Heyward: [email protected]

Adrian Butterworth:  [email protected]

Catalin Brylla: [email protected]

Karl Rawstrone: [email protected]

Carolina Machado Oliveira: [email protected]

Resh Somauroo: [email protected]

Peri Bradley: [email protected]

Christopher Pullen: [email protected]

Phil Matthews: [email protected]

Reina-Marie Loader: [email protected]

DEDIC is determined to maintain a broad, inclusive and representative committee.  

We are seeking expressions of interest from students to represent their respective programmes as committee members. 

If you are interested in joining as a student or staff committee member, or would like to know more about what we do, please contact Carina Westling: [email protected]