Objectives, indicators and baseline
The university’s ambitions are:
- To be recognised as an institution with a diverse leadership and staff.
- To promote an inclusive workplace culture, where everyone can thrive, contribute and develop.
The ambitions have been formalised into 3 concrete objectives, which will be monitored using selected indicators.
Objective 1
A gender distribution of no more than 60 per cent of the over-represented gender on the AU Board and among managers.
Objective 2
A gender distribution of no more than 60 per cent of the over-represented gender among staff at the faculties and in the administration at AU level – and a recommendation to strive for greater diversity within the faculties and the administration.
Gender distribution among academic staff* at AU across faculties
*Academic staff includes professors, associate professors/senior researchers/senior advisers, assistant professors/tenure track assistant professors, postdocs, employed PhD students and other members of academic staff.
Objective 3
Maintain a high score on the inclusion index at AU level and strive to increase this score for those groups below the AU average of 4.1 in 2025 (WPA 2025).
The inclusion index will form part of AU’s WPA from 2025 onwards and consists of 4 questions that are answered on a scale from 1 to 5: “I feel that I am part of a community at my workplace”, “I generally don’t feel l lonely in connection with my work”, “At work, I feel respected and valued for who I am”, “I feel that, in general, participating and contributing on an equal footing with others is open to me”. These 4 questions are weighted.
