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Gender Equality Group (GEG)
Category
general
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735ff161253043118ce96c70020b0fc2
Source URL
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/departments/inclusion/groups/equalitygroups/geg/#a0
Parent URL
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/departments/inclusion/accreditations/athenaswan/#a3
Crawl Time
2026-03-20T04:27:25+00:00
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Gender Equality Group (GEG)

Source: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/departments/inclusion/groups/equalitygroups/geg/#a0 Parent: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/departments/inclusion/accreditations/athenaswan/#a3

Gender Equality Group (GEG)

The University of Exeter has been a member of Advance HE's Athena Swan charter since 2011 and has held an institutional Silver award since 2018, while departmental awards are held by all nine of our STEMM departments at either Bronze or Silver level.

Following on from the University's engagement in these gender equality accreditations, the Gender Equality Group (GEG) meets termly to discuss a range of gender-related issues affecting staff and students at our institution and monitor our Gender Equality Action Plan.

GEG is chaired by Alicia O'Grady (Executive Director, External Engagement and Global) and brings together academic and professional services staff, students and colleagues from the Students' Guild (Devon) and the Students' Union (Cornwall).

If you'd like to know more, or get involved in this work, please contact EDI@exeter.ac.uk. \ \

Current membership

Role Name
Chair (UEB member) Alicia O'Grady
Students' Union (Cornwall) representative 2024-25 team
Students' Guild (Exeter) representative Bethan Roberts
EDI Manager Dorcas Cowan
Senior EDI Advisor Sandip Samra
WISEnet Chair Rachel Bennett
Trans representative Lena Worwood
Non-binary representative Dr Daniel Fountain
Cornwall LGBTQ+ Staff Network (Kemeneth) Chair Beth Hall
Gender Safety representative Lewis Nurton
Speak Out Guardian Dr Janet Keliher
HR Policy Team representative Charlotte Woollam
HR representative Lynn Stoyle
People Development representative TBC
Professional Services representative Totty Brobyn
Trade Union representative Dr Sanja Vico
Global Partnerships representative James Smith
Early Career Researcher (ECR) representative Dr Helen Eyles
Academic member Professor Frances Tammer
Academic member Dr Rachel Fenton
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences (HLS) representative Alison Pearson
Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy (ESE) representative Julie Pepper
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) representative TBC
Research Services representative Peter O'Rourke
Cornwall campuses representative TBC

Current priorities

Our current gender equality action plan is available online.