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Institutional Self Assessment Team (ISAT)

ISAT for 2025 Silver Athena Swan Application

The Institutional Athena Swan Steering Group was reconstituted as the Institutional Self-Assessment Team (ISAT) in November 2024 in preparation for applying for an institutional Silver award in Q2 2025.

ISAT Members

Front row: Tina-Karen Pusse, Aoife Cooke, John Caulfield, Laura Loftus, Niamh Gallagher
Back row: Peter McHugh, Helen Maher, Donal Leech, Aoibhín Keighron

The ISAT comprises staff members at every level and from every staff category to ensure that there are representatives from across the University.

The group will have responsibility for writing the application, conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis, and for ensuring that University of Galway’s 2021 Athena Swan Action Plan is implemented. Thematic areas in the 2021 action plan include:

Embedding Athena SWAN and Gender Equality in University of Galway
Advancing Recruitment and Career Progression of Female Staff
Developing Women Leaders in University of Galway – including increasing the proportion of Senor Academic Women
Enhancing Culture and Wellbeing at Work – University of Galway is committed to listening to staff in order to enhance institutional culture, balancing work, wellbeing and caring responsibilities
Developing an infrastructure to support easier access to data required for Athena SWAN and other EDI initiatives.

Institutional SAT Members
	*Name*	*Role*	*Staff Category*	*Gender*	*Working Group*
1.	Helen Maher	Co-Chair/ VP for EDI	PMSS	F	WG E
2.	Peter McHugh	Co-Chair/ Deputy President and Registrar	Academic	M	WG C
3.	Josephine Hynes	HR Representative	PMSS	F	WG B
4.	Dónal Leech	Dean of Graduate Studies	Academic	M	WG B
5.	Brid Daly	Representative from VP International Office	PMSS	F	WG E
6.	Tony Flaherty	Representative from VP for Research and Innovation Office	PMSS	M	WG C
7.	Mary Dempsey	Vice Dean for EDI CSE	Academic	F
8.	Kasia Whysall	Vice Dean for EDI CMNHS	Academic	F	WG C
9.	Deirdre Curran	Vice Dean for EDI CBPPL	Academic	F
10.	Sarah-Anne Buckley	Vice Dean for EDI CASSCS	Academic	F	WG D
11.	Declan Devane	Head of School: STEM	Academic	M	WG D
12.	Martin Hogg	Head of School: Non-STEM	Academic	M	WG C
13.	Laura Loftus	EDI Programme Manager for Gender Equality	PMSS	F	WG A/C
14.	Aoife Cooke	Head of EDI	PMSS	F	WG A/B
15.	Margaret Forde	EDI Data Manager	PMSS	F	WG D
16.	Eylul Taneri	Research Staff Network Representative	Research	F	WG C
17.	Roisin Doohan	Technical Staff Working Group/Network   Representative	PMSS	F	WG D
18.	Daniel Mc Gonigle	Postgraduate Representative	Student	M	WG B
19.	Daniel Savery	Widening Participation/Access  Representative	PMSS	M	WG E
20.	Oonagh Meade	Academic Staff Representative	Academic	F	WG C
21.	Aaron Croke	PMSS Staff Representative	PMSS	M	WG D
22.	John Caulfield	Director of University Strategy	PMSS	M	WG A
23.	Aidan Harte	LGBT+ Staff Network	PMSS	M	WG E
24.	Olivia McDermott	University Women’s Network	Academic	F	WG C
25.	Tina-Karen Pusse	International Staff Network	Academic	F	WG E
26.	Prof Lokesh Joshi	Academic Staff Representative	Academic	M	WG C

The ISAT Working Groups

The ISAT Working Groups are outlined below and the relative themes for each working group

*Working Groups*
*Name*	*Staff Category*	*Working Group*
Claire O’Connor	PMSS	WG C (Academic/Research Staff)
Rebecca Connolly	PMSS	WG E (Additional Eq- SVH)
Mary Surlis	PMSS	WG B (Culture & Org)
Galina Brychkova	Academic Staff	WG C (Academic/Research Staff)
Zina Alfahl	Research Staff	WG C (Academic/Research Staff)
Mark Elliott	Academic Staff	WG E (Additional Eq)
Anahita Shariat	Research Staff	WG E (Additional Eq)
Máire Bríd Breathnach	PMSS	WG D (PMSS Staff)
Antony Wheatley	Academic Staff	WG E (Additional Eq- Bullying & Harassment)
Eva O'Byrne	Research Staff	WG E (Additional Eq- SVH)
Tara Ryan	PMSS	WG B (Culture & Org)
Patricia Scully	Academic Staff	WG C (Academic /Research Staff)
Mary Kelly	Academic Staff	WG C (Academic/Research Staff)
Aideen Ryan	Academic Staff	WG E (Additional Eq- Bullying & Harassment)
Nuala Ní Chonghaile	PMSS	WG A (Communications & Consultation)
Órla O'Donovan	PMSS	WG C (Academic /Research Staff)
Gerardine Deacy	PMSS	WG C (Academic /Research Staff)
HR Rep- TBC	PMSS	WG E (Additional Eq- Bullying & Harassment)
Owen Ward	PMSS	WG E (Additional Eq- Bullying & Harassment)