Professor Millicent Mackenzie Award for the Advancement of EDI in Academic or Professional Life
About the Professor Millicent Mackenzie Award
This award recognises a team or individual who has gone above and beyond in advocating for or embedding Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) within their research or innovation, demonstrating a sustained and exceptional commitment to advancing EDI beyond expectations.
Winners of this award will demonstrate significant contributions in one or more of the following ways:
- Advocating for or embedding Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in their ways of working in research or innovation.
- Demonstrating a sustained and exceptional commitment to advancing EDI within their workplace, community etc beyond expectations- sharing what was achieved by implementing those values.
- A reach and impact of their work.
- Notable outputs of their work.
- Any other notable achievements, e.g. innovation, major projects, knowledge transfer, dissemination of their work etc.
Open to individuals or teams.
Nomination Deadline: 1 June 12:00pm
Discover Professor Millicent Mackenzie: Who was Millicent Mackenzie and why is she associated with our ‘Advancement of EDI in Academic or Professional Life’ award?
Professor Millicent MacKenzie was a pioneering educationalist and suffragist who was the ‘first woman’ in several areas. The first woman to become a Professor in Wales and later the first woman in Wales to stand for Parliament, a founding member of the Cardiff Suffrage society and devoted to tackling poverty. She was passionate about social and educational improvement and women’s suffrage.
Scrutiny Committee membership
- Ruth King (Chair)
- Nick Clifton (Vice Chair)
- Angela V John
- Gwyn Gould
- Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason (Honorary Fellow)
- Independent Member – yet to be appointed.