Category: New BEDI initiatives
School of Biology Staff Wellbeing: Resources & Support Event
On 22 January 2021 we held a Staff Wellbeing Teams Event to present information about the Resources and Support available here at the University of St Andrews. Event programme 10:00: Prof Frank Gunn Moore, Head of School and Prof …
February 10, 2021 | BEDI activities
School of Biology Staff Wellbeing: Resources & Support Event
All Biology staff are invited to attend the Staff Wellbeing: Resources & Support event on Friday 22nd January 2021 at 10am on Teams. The aim of this event is to signpost where staff can source help/support/information on staff & student …
January 15, 2021 | BEDI activities
Guidelines for organising a diverse conference/workshop
As one of the actions for our silver Athena Swan Award, we have compiled a list of suggestions for organising a diverse and gender-balanced conference or workshop. A downloadable “In a Nutshell” one page summary of these suggestions can be …
May 29, 2020 | BEDI activities
Fellowship writing workshop
A Fellowship writing workshop was organised by early career researchers on the E&D committee, which took place on 5 February. Obtaining an Independent Research Fellowship (IRF) enables an individual to become a PI in an institution of their choice, but …
February 21, 2020 | BEDI activities
Fellowship writing workshop
Are you thinking about applying for an Independent Research Fellowship (IRF) in the UK in the near future? You don’t know what an IRF is? (More information can be found here). The Equality and Diversity Committee of the School of …
January 23, 2020 | BEDI activities
The Athena SWAN journey: sharing top tips and best practice from Gold departmental award holders
On 11th June 2019, we held a workshop to share and promote best practice between institutions and departments applying for Athena SWAN awards. Three Athena SWAN Gold Award Holders spoke about their Athena SWAN journey: Dr Caroline Dessent, Department of …
June 23, 2019 | BEDI activities
Careers bookmark
During the International Day of Women and Girls in Science lecture today the Biology Equality and Diversity Committee will be distributing bookmarks highlighting a new webpage discussing some of the careers options for school students, undergraduates, and postgraduates studying biology. …
February 5, 2019 | International Day of Women and Girls in Science lecture
Grant exemplars online
One of our Athena SWAN silver award action points was to ensure there were recent successful grant exemplars online to help colleagues with their applications. These are now available on bioInternal.
January 15, 2019 | New BEDI initiatives
Promotion workshop
The academic promotions workshop took place on the 4th December 2018 in the BMS lecture theatre. There were presentations from Mhairi Stewart (Head of HR) and Malcolm White laying out the structure of the promotions procedure, how it is viewed …
January 15, 2019 | BEDI activities
Resources for post-docs
A new section entitled ‘Resources for post-docs’ has been created on the E&D website, which can be found here. Please let us know (eqdivcom@st-andrews.ac.uk) if there is any other useful information which we have missed.
January 7, 2019 | New BEDI initiatives