How can your institution make its way from Bronze to Gold Athena Swan accreditation? This Expectations Framework will help to clarify what’s required at every step of the way.
About the Expectations Framework
The Expectations Framework provides a clear overview of expectations at each key milestone on their SAGE Athena Swan pathway.
Exploring the four SAGE Athena Swan accreditation criteria, the document provides progressive descriptors of what is expected – and should be demonstrated – to show increasing maturity at Bronze, Silver and Gold Award levels.
SAGE Athena Swan Awards Criteria
The SAGE Athena Swan accreditation pathway focuses on the unique journey of each participating institution towards achieving a safe, equitable and inclusive organisation.
Award applications are assessed against four criteria:
1. Leadership and accountability
2. Honesty and self-reflection
3. Communication and engagement
4. Data analysis and discussion
The applying institution must demonstrate that it meets requirements against the four criteria, to enable it to:
- understand the current state of gender equity, diversity and inclusion (GEDI) across the institution
- understand the structural, systemic, and cultural barriers that impede attraction, retention, and progression, contributing to inequity and a lack of diversity and inclusion
- act to remove or reduce five Key Barriers, thereby advancing GEDI across the Institution.
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