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Equal opportunities and Athena SWAN at UCL
IEHC is committed towards fostering a positive culture where all staff, students and visitors can flourish without the fear of being stigmatised or feeling they need to conceal elements of their identity.
- Athena SWAN at UCL
- Employee benefits
- UCL Equal Opportunities Policy
- UCL Equality and Diversity Strategy
- UCL Corporate Equality Objectives
- UCL Information for New Starters
- UCL Women Networking Group
Flexible working, parents and families
IEHC acknowledges that its staff, students and visitors are most productive when they have achieved a work-life balance that enables them to meet their responsibilities outside work.
UCL aims to recruit and retain staff of the highest calibre. Remuneration and other benefits, regular appraisal and development opportunities, good job-design and effective management practices are all important factors in enabling departments to achieve this objective. Research suggests, however, that increasingly the opportunity to achieve a work-life balance can be as important a factor as pay and benefits in attracting and retaining staff and therefore this policy has the aim of benefiting both staff and UCL as an employer.
View Case Studies of how IEHC has supported work-life balance
- Find a comprehensive list of links to UCL policies on flexible working, parental leave, child care and staff benefits
- New UCL staff guidance on supporting working parents and carers
- Maternity/ Paternity
- Leave for Domestic and Personal reasons
- Updated UCL Work Life Balance Policy
- Parents and Carers Together (PACT) Network presentation - Leave entitlement at UCL (PDF); video lecturecast of the session
Leadership and Mentoring
- UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences future leaders programme
- UCL leadership training opportunities
- The NHS leadership academy
- The King's Fund Leadership Development
- Access coaching and mentoring opportunities at UCL
- UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences future fifty mentors programme
- UCL mentoring programme for women
- Mentoring for clinical trainees through the London Deanery
In the media
- What does it mean to be an LGBTQ 'ally'? (People Management, 18 Oct 18)
- Gay employees don't have to be 'out' at work (People Management, 12 Jul 18)
- We can all be better LGBT allies at work (People Management, 30 Apr 18)
- The F-word: feminism must be reclaimed by today's teens - they're our future (The Guardian, 19 Sep 17)
- BBC 100 Women: Nine things you didn't know were invented by women (BBC News, 4 Sep 17)
- Workplace sexism survey shows 'disturbing' gap in male and female perception (The Guardian, 4 Sep 17)
- 2VCs on...how do we take the pressure off young academics? (The Guardian, 9 Aug 17)
- How can universities create a carer-friendly culture? (The Guardian, 15 Jun 17)
- Five unconscious biases that hold back female researchers (The Guardian, 23 Mar 17)
Women in science - articles and websites
- Women in science Nature Special
- Women in science EMBO policy
- Top 100 women in science and medicine
- Mums in Science
- International Association of Women in Science
- European Platform of Women Scientists
- European Association for Women in Science Engineering and Technology
- eLIFE: Point of view: What does it take to recruit and retain senior women faculty?
- Welcome to WISE - Promoting female talent in science, engineering and technology from classroom to boardroom
- 2nd European Gender Summit. Read the manifesto created at the European Gender summit designed to "provide a forum for stakeholders from research, industry and policy to jointly explore how gendered methodologies can stimulate innovation and advance scientific excellence"