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Baseline Data: Are we making progress??. Jennifer Dyer IOP Diversity Programme Leader Presentation to SPIDER network, 29 June 2010 Jennifer.Dyer@iop.org, www.iop.org. Diversity Structure. Diversity Committee Chaired by Professor Christine Davies, University of Glasgow
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Baseline Data: Are we making progress?? Jennifer Dyer IOP Diversity Programme Leader Presentation to SPIDER network, 29 June 2010 Jennifer.Dyer@iop.org, www.iop.org
Diversity Structure Diversity Committee • Chaired by Professor Christine Davies, University of Glasgow • Has Directors, members and external experts • Advises Council and the Institute on strategies to widen access to physics and the Institute Diversity Forum • Chaired by Chief Executive, Bob Kirby-Harris • Has representatives from each Directorate and NROs • Discusses internal diversity issues Diversity Team • Professor Peter Main, Director, Education & Science • Jenni Dyer, Diversity Programme Leader • Frances Ling, Diversity Programme Co-ordinator
Diversity Audit (2008) Positive comments about diversity at the Institute • High degree of commitment to member diversity across directorates • Creation of a diversity infrastructure and budget • Commitment to UKRC CEO Charter Recommendations about further embedding diversity across the Institute • Embedding diversity into Committee/Board terms of reference • Diversity profiling of members • Training staff and Council members
IOP Governance There are 16 Boards and Committees (including Council) • All IOP Boards and Committees have female representation • 6/16 (37.5%) have female chairs and Council has a female chair • 207 board/committee positions; 58 (28%) filled by women There are 13 Branches (nations and regions) • All branch committees have female representation • 3/13 (23%) branches have female chairs • 188 branch committee positions, 61 (32%) filled by women • Average age of branch committee members is 45; 22% of committee members are <35
IOP Groups, Prizes, etc Awards 2009 • 20 Awards made 15 to men, 5 (25%) to women Groups • 52 Groups in total • 78/482 (16%) committee members are female • 17/51 (33%) do not have any female committee members • 5/51 (9.8%) have a female chair • Lowest % of females in a group is 5.5% and highest is 98.2% • 10 Groups have lower than 10% females and 12% higher than 20% female members
What now for IOP and Diversity? • Monitoring diversity in membership • Monitoring of membership on all strands? • Building profile of membership over time • Until you know where the gaps are, you can’t fill them!