Accreditations and pledges

Coventry University is proud to have been granted the Bronze Athena SWAN Award (for 2016 - 27).

The Athena Swan Charter is a framework to support and transform gender equality within higher education (HE) and research. Since 2005 it has been used to encourage and recognise commitment to advancing the careers of women. The Charter is now being used across the globe to address gender equality more broadly, and not just barriers to progression that affect women.

Coventry University has held an institutional level bronze award from Athena SWAN since 2016. We are proud to have signed up to the new Athena SWAN Charter Principles and to have had our award reaccredited until 2027.

Since the university’s last accreditation in 2016, our Academic Progression Framework has helped drive a steady rise in the percentage of grade 9 and 10 roles held by women across the Group and has seen the total number of applications from women for career advancement opportunities increase by more than 350 per cent.

Our 2030 Group Strategy includes a series of new institutional level ‘enabling KPIs’, recognising diversity as valuable, enriching and key to growth and success. The KPIs track the composition of new senior appointments, all new starters and internal promotions.