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EDI and Athena SWAN Committee / Self-Assessment Team

EDI and Athena SWAN Committee / Self-Assessment Team 

The Veterinary EDI and Athena SWAN (VETEDIAS) Self-Assessment Team (SAT) comprises 12 staff and represents the School’s mixture of genders, roles, grades and career stages. It is made up of members of senior management, professors/lecturers, clinical staff, professional staff, research staff and technical.

The VETEDIAS SAT sits at the heart of our Community, where students and staff are invited to be part of making our Silver Action Plan a success. The SAT is tasked with identifying stakeholders and assigning action owners and are accountable for the success/failure of actions. It comprises a Veterinary Management Team (VMT) comprising of two co-chairs and a project co-ordinator and 4 working groups:

SAT/Committee Groups

Responsibility for Silver Action Plan

VetEDIAS Management Team (VMT)

Progress and Implementation

Working Group 1 (WG 1)

Career Progression and Mentorship, Academic and Research Staff

Working Group 2 (WG2)

Career Progression and Mentorship, PMS Staff

Working Group 3 (WG3)

Student Related Issues

Working Group 4 (WG4)

Community Communication
and Inclusiveness

Name Position/Role in School Email Address
Cliona Skelly SAT Co-Chair, VETEDIAS VMT,
Associate Professor/Discipline Leader, Diagnostic Imaging, DVMS Programme Director
cliona.skelly@ucd.ie
Stephen Gordon SAT Co-Chair, VETEDIAS VMT,
Full Professor, Infection Biology
stephen.gordon@ucd.ie
Eimear Burkley SAT Project Co-ordinator, VETEDIAS VMT eimear.burkley@ucd.ie
Alison Reynolds Co-chair WG1, Assistant Professor, Veterinary Biosciences, Associate Dean for Research, Innovation & Impact Alison.Reynolds@ucd.ie
Arun Kumar Co-chair WG3, Assistant Professor, Veterinary Biosciences arun.kumar@ucd.ie
Bridget Hogg Co-chair WG4, Senior Technical Officer, Veterinary Biosciences bridget.hogg@ucd.ie
Kevin Murtagh Co-chair WG1, Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine Kevin.murtagh@ucd.ie
Maria Gomez Sanchez Co-chair WG2, Veterinary Nurse and Physiotherapist maria.gomez-sanchez@ucd.ie
Marijke Beltman Co-chair WG4, Associate Professor, Veterinary Clinical Reproduction marijke.beltman@ucd.ie
Marion Ryan Co-chair WG2, Senior Technical Officer, Molecular Biology marion.ryan@ucd.ie
Robin Farrell Co-chair WG3, Director of Veterinary Nursing robin.farrell@ucd.ie
Rory Breathnach Dean and Head of the School of Veterinary Medicine, Associate Professor rory.breathnach@ucd.ie

Committee vacancies arise from time to time. If you are interested in joining the EDI and Athena SWAN SAT, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact (opens in a new window)vetedias@ucd.ie

Contact the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine

UCD Veterinary Sciences Centre, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
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