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LSBU has marked its commitment to promoting gender equality by signing up to the Equality Challenge Unit’s Athena SWAN Charter. The Charter was originally set up to address the under- representation of women in science subjects, but has since expanded to cover all disciplines and initiatives to promote gender equality in its broadest sense. The Charter was signed
Making healthcare safer HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Alison Leary, Professor of Healthcare Modelling, has been awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship to research how safety culture in the healthcare sector can be improved. She will travel to the US to learn more about other safety-critical industries and identify lessons that can be applied to healthcare. The trip will include a stint at NASA’s headquarters in Washington DC. ‘With the Francis Inquiry mandating hospitals to improve their safety cultures, there is now a renewed duty to create a culture of openness and transparency in the NHS, so that safety-critical work can be carried out successfully,’ says Professor Leary. ‘Shifting the culture of a workplace is never easy, but looking to other safety-critical industries outside of the healthcare sector might help hospitals and other providers
to adopt models that have already been proven to be successful. I’m looking forward to learning more about the processes that other industries have in place, in turn helping healthcare providers to improve safety culture here in the UK.’ Since the scheme’s inception in February
1965, over 5250 ordinary British men and women have been awarded Churchill Fellowships, from over 100,000 applicants. The ethos remains the same five decades on – to support individuals to visit different parts of the world in pursuit of new and better ways of tackling a wide range of social, environmental, medical and scientific issues, with the aim of bringing back new approaches and innovative ideas to Britain for the benefit of their local and regional communities and the nation.
on behalf of LSBU by Vice Chancellor David Phoenix. ‘To succeed we have to recognise the strengths in our diversity,’ he says. ‘This is important for the organisation to move forward and reach its fullest potential.’ Following a well- attended launch, events are now planned leading up to the University’s application for an Athena SWAN Bronze Award in November.
‘ To succeed we have to recognise the strengths in our diversity. This is important for the organisation to move forward and reach its fullest potential’
STAFF & FRIENDSDr Rami Ranger was made a CBE in the 2016 New Year’s Honours list Vijay Lee (School of Business) was shortlisted for Public Sector 06_South Bank | Spring 2016
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