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VOLUME VIII, ISSUE IV • TUESDAY, 31 JANUARY 2017 • Royal Holloway, University of London • Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX
RHUL Finds Success In 2017
top female athlete and the top Paralympian at the 2016 Sports Personality of the Year As the New Year gets (p. 22), while MA Creative underway and RHUL welWriting and PhD graduate comes students back from Sarah Perry has been awardthe winter break, the unied Waterstone’s ‘Book of the versity leaves 2016 on a high Year’ for her novel The Essex and launches into the New Serpent (p. 2). Year with a serious of wins Success for Royal Holand success stories from staff, loway as a whole, and in line students and alumni. with the university’s hisFor Royal Holloway tory of women’s rights and students involved in the education, was achieved in Community Action vollate November when Royal unteering group, there was Holloway won the Outstandcause for celebration when ing Contribution to Leaderthey received recognition ship Development award at for their achievements and the prestigious Times Higher work with Challenges Abroad Education awards 2016. and were awarded a FutureThe award was given to Sense Partner Award, as well Royal Holloway in recognias being nominated for the tion of their diverse proQueen’s Award at the end of gramme and commitment to last year (full story p. 4). In closing the gender gap in the the staff department, Mark number of male versus female Bowden, Reader in Comprofessors. position in the Department In 2012, RHUL had a of Music also won a British fairly even split between male Composer Award for his and female lecturers, but work Five Memos (p. 2). In it was apparent that at the the world of RHUL alumni, professorial level men outmathematics graduate Sophie numbered women by four to Christiansen OBE was voted one, a statistic in line with the ROSA SMITH NEWS EDITOR
Students prepare for lectures in 2017 by catching up on reading. Photo by Amanda Hudson.
majority of other universities. This prompted Royal Holloway to launch an initiative in 2014 called ‘Enabling Women Academics through the Promotion Process’. The programme was based on a similar scheme run at the
University of Tromso in Norway and aimed to increase the proportion of female professors from 24.1 per cent to 35 per cent in five years. The programme offered flexible coaching, workshops, CV support and mock exter-
nal review for women academics, who were allowed to attend with young children or via Skype in order to fit in with their other commitments.
Sarah Perry, p. 2
Student Letters, p. 12 Eamonn Freyne, p. 23
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Index News..............................................................................1 Opinion And Debate......................................................6 Lifestyle...........................................................................9 Features........................................................................12 Arts...............................................................................14 Arts: Film......................................................................16 Arts: Music....................................................................19 Sports...........................................................................22
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