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The Academy's Diversity
Programme
As an employer and scheme
promoter the Academy is committed to diversity. We
value the diversity that men and women with
differing backgrounds, skills and abilities bring
not only to the Academy itself but also to the
Science, Engineering and Technology (SET)
Professions as a whole. We will endeavour to foster
an environment free from harassment and unfair
discrimination in which individual potential can be
harnessed to maximise benefit to the SET community.
A key theme in our business
plan is to improve accessibility to the SET
professions for all groups through our own
activities and by active cooperation with other
bodies, programmes and activities.
Policy:
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Increase awareness of
equal opportunities through training and the
media.
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Research and reduce
obstacles to equal opportunities.
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Challenge and root out
discrimination if it occurs.
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Monitor and keep under
review Academy policies and practices to ensure
the promotion of equal opportunities.
Implementation: The Academy's programme aims
to address the issue of diversity in education and
employment within the SET community which is
reflected in all our activities as detailed below.
Corporate Governance: The Academy ensures that its
Charter, Rules, Regulations and Procedures comply
fully with all legal requirements.
Academy Staff: The Academy sets out to be an
exemplar of good practice in implementing all
aspects of equal opportunities and diversity policy
in its role as an employer.
Academy Schemes: The
Academy ensures that all its schemes are
administered in accordance with the above principles
and that a full monitoring system is in place to
determine gender, ethnicity, social and educational
background of its applicants.
The UKRC CEO Charter
 The Academy has signed up to
the UKRC’s CEO Charter as a visible commitment to
women in science, engineering and technology (SET).
In signing the CEO Charter the
CEO and senior management have made a commitment to
ensure that they will:
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Actively support the aim
of increasing the participation, at all levels,
of women in SET;
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Develop and communicate
the business case for gender equality within
their organisation, their supply chain and their
wider networks;
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Promote and showcase their
organisation's approach and examples of best
practice at relevant events and forums;
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Develop clearly defined
strategies and implement practices which
encourage women to enter, progress in or return
to SET careers.
Download the 'Inspiring Women Engineers (551KB)'
booklet (published January 2009) which outlines the aim of the diversity of
engineering campaign; outlines the reason for change
and showcases the Academy's work to date
The Academy is particularly
concerned to attract more women into the engineering
profession and to encourage all members of ethnic
minority and socially deprived communities to fully
exploit their potential by embracing SET careers.
This is a key feature of the
Best Programme and
active collaboration with
Women in Science and
Engineering (WISE), the
Athena Project, the
UK
Resource Centre for Women in SET, the
Women in North West Engineering (WEWIN), the
Engineering
Education Alliance and the
Science Council.
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