{"id":4661,"date":"2026-08-20T14:28:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=4661"},"modified":"2026-08-21T14:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T14:29:10","slug":"athena-swan-for-professional-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2026\/08\/20\/athena-swan-for-professional-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Athena Swan for professional services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/Advance-HE-Membership-logo_Standalone_AS-Bronze_Colour.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4615\" src=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/Advance-HE-Membership-logo_Standalone_AS-Bronze_Colour-300x222.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/Advance-HE-Membership-logo_Standalone_AS-Bronze_Colour-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/Advance-HE-Membership-logo_Standalone_AS-Bronze_Colour.png 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As one of the very few professional services departments in the UK to hold <a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2025\/10\/22\/athena-swan-win\/\">Athena Swan accreditation<\/a>, we are getting a few enquiries from libraries and learning services at other universities. Alessandra has prepared a redacted version of our bid and action plan, which can be shared and i am happy to discuss if that is useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one of the very few professional services departments in the UK to hold Athena Swan accreditation, we are getting a few enquiries from libraries and learning services at other universities. Alessandra has prepared a redacted version of our bid and action plan, which can be shared and i am happy to discuss if that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-4661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eople-place-work","tag-athena-swan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4662,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions\/4662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}