Addressing Gender & Diversity:

The AFFIX consortium is fully committed to promoting gender equality and encouraging full contribution of women at all levels.



  • Women are well-represented on the steering committee and executive boards; there is a gender representative on the board and gender and diversity are raised as action points at every meeting
  • An email list has been set up to promote networking events and relevant information.
  • A confidential point-of-contact is maintained for anyone wishing to raise discrimination issues.
  • Women’s events are organised at consortium meetings.
Dr Gault presenting a paper in Wuhan - October 2008Rosemary Gault presenting at ICIRA in Wuhan

The consortium is committed to a Gender Action Plan which:

  1. Encourages female researchers to participate in project research and strives to retain female staff.
  2. Carried out a wide program of dissemination and mentoring to encourage women to take science and technology subjects at school.
  3. Raises awareness of gender issues at management level to ensure women are adequately represented at all levels and in decision-making activities.
  4. Encourages networking and maintains links with groups and organisations that encourage the participation of women in science and technology and deal with gender mainstreaming.
  5. Collects gender-related statistics to monitor the number of women who participate in various roles throughout the life of the project and the gender of successful job applicants.

For help or information on diversity issues please contact Dr Rosemary Gault on
affix-diversity@affix-ip.eu