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‌Professor Paul Walton: Equality work

Paul is internationally known for his work on equality issues in science.  His many distinctions in this area include serving on the Irish HEA's review group into gender equality in Irish HE institutions, the Athena Swan review group, many international keynote and plenary lectures, the Royal Society's inaugural Athena Prize 2016 (runner up), and being shortlisted for the WISE campaign's Man of the Year Award 2016.  Paul is currently a member of the Athena Swan review group, the University of Galway's equality advisory board, and is current leader of the GENIE project, Chalmers University, Sweden.

Paul Walton talking

Publication

Paper on the potentially confounding effect of Simpson's paradox in gender equality data, and methods to reduce the chance of the paradox adversely influencing policy.

Simpson's paradox in the interpretation of "leaky pipeline" data
D J Walton, P H Walton, Int. J. Trans. Res. 2016, 3(2), 1-7.

International lectures/invitations

  • ICCC, Fort-Collins, Colorado, USA, 2024
  • Linear Alegra Seminar, Okanagan, Canada, 2023
  • Lehigh University, USA, 2023
  • Washington University, St Louis, USA, 2023
  • Chemistry Connect lecture, Duke University, Raleigh, USA, 2023
  • University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA, 2023
  • Stanford University, Stanford, USA, 2023
  • Harvard University, USA, 2023
  • University of Cambridge, UK, 2022
  • Frontiers Lecture, Wayne State University, USA, 2022
  • NCCR Transcure meeting, Bern, Switzerland, 2022
  • ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2022
  • Darmstadt University, Germany 2022
  • University of Bern, Switzerland, 2022
  • Chalmers University, Sweden, 2022
  • UCSD, San Diego, USA, 2022; Emory University, Georgia, USA, 2022
  • ACS meeting San Diego, 2022
  • Institut Catalan, d’Investigacio, Tarragona, Spain, 2021;
  • NCCR, Switzerland, 2021
  • Department of Biology, Chalmers University, Sweden, 2021
  • Virginia Tech, USA, 2021
  • American Physical Society, 2020
  • Lund University, Sweden, 2020
  • IIT Guwahati, India, 2019
  • ETZ Zurich, Switzerland, 2019
  • Lund University, Sweden, 2019
  • University of Campinas, Brazil, 2019
  • University of Victoria, Canada, 2019
  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2019
  • Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2019
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA, 2019
  • Cellulose-modifying enzymes GRC, Andover, USA, 2019
  • University of Basel, Switzerland, 2019
  • Lund University, Sweden, 2019
  • ICBIC (plenary), Interlaken, Switzerland, 2019
  • Science Faculty, University of Freiburg, 2018
  • LERU conference, Zurich, Switzerland, 2018
  • Chalmers University, Sweden, 2018
  • Deflt University, senior management group, Holland, 2017
  • University of Helsinki, Finland, 2017
  • Chemistry Department, Lund University, Sweden, 2017
  • Lund University, Sweden, 2017
  • Chalmers University, Sweden, 2017
  • Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 2017
  • University of Zurich, Switzerland, 2017
  • University of Freiburg, Germany, 2017
  • University of Cork, Ireland, 2016
  • University of Cork (executive group briefing), Ireland, 2016
  • LERU conference, Lund, Sweden, 2016
  • Uppsala University, Sweden, 2016
  • Swedish National Equality Conference, Lund, Sweden, 2016
  • DELFT Women in Science Symposium, The Netherlands, 2016
  • HEA (Ireland) review board on gender equality in HE, Ireland, 2015/16. Report.
  • Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenberg, Sweden, 2015
  • Ministry of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, 2015
  • Office of Gender Equality, Executive Yuan, Taipei, Taiwan, 2015
  • Annual meeting of the chemical society in Taipei, Hualein, Taiwan, 2015
  • Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2015
  • COST Action meeting, Nanoscale Quantum Optics, Florence, Italy, 2015
  • COST Action meeting, GenderSTE, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2015
  • Women's Network Conference, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2015
  • Promoting Female Excellence in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Oslo 2014
  • University of Limerick, Ireland, 2014
  • University of Limerick (executive group briefing), Ireland, 2014
  • GenderSTE targeted workshop, University of Rijeka, Croatia, 2014
  • University College Dublin 2014
  • Transformational Change in Gender Equality, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 2014
  • Transformational Change in Gender Equality, Brno, Czech Republic 2014
  • STAGES equality conference, Brussels 2014
  • Women's Gender Initiative, Prague 2013
  • Trinity College, Dublin 2012, 2013
  • Trinity College Dublin (executive group briefing), Ireland, 2013
  • CNRS Paris, 2011, 2012
  • University of Siauliai, Lithunania, 2011

National lectures/invitations

  • University of Nottingham, 2019
  • Johnson-Matthey, Cambridge, 2019
  • IT services, University of York, 2019
  • Advanced Materials Research Centre, Sheffield University, 2018
  • Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 2018
  • Department of English, University of York, 2017
  • Department of Physics, University of Sheffield, 2017
  • Department of Language and Linguistics, University of York, 2017
  • Department of Biology, University of York, 2017
  • Gender Equality Conference, University of Huddersfield, 2017
  • British Antarctic Survey, 2017
  • University of Surrey, 2017
  • Department of History, University of York, 2016
  • Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, 2016
  • Women's Equality Group, University of York, 2016
  • University of York, Students Union, 2016
  • Royal Society Diversity Conference, 2016
  • SWEY society, University of York, 2016
  • Department of History, University of York, 2016
  • University of Leicester, 2016
  • Department of Politics, University of York, 2016
  • University of Sheffield, 2016
  • Xenia Society, University of York, 2016
  • University of Chester, 2016
  • Wellcome Trust, 2015
  • University of St Andrews, 2015
  • University of Birmingham, 2015
  • University of Leeds, senior managers group, 2015
  • Sex in Science seminars, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, 2015
  • University of Huddersfield, 2014
  • Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, 2014
  • University of Oxford, 2014
  • ITHET conference, University of York, 2014
  • University of Kent, Athena Swan awareness day 2014
  • University of Leeds, medical school, 2014
  • University of Durham, gender equality conference, 2014
  • University of Leeds Athena SWAN networking event 2014
  • University of Leeds medical school, 2014
  • EPSRC leaders event, 2014
  • Athena Swan conference, University of Portsmouth 2014
  • Kings College, University of London 2014
  • Queen Mary College, University of London 2014
  • University of Leeds 2014
  • University of York, School of Physics, Engineering and Technology 2014
  • John Innes Centre, Norwich 2013
  • London Mathematical Society, London 2013
  • Institute of Physics, London 2013
  • Vitae conference, London 2013
  • University of St Andrews, Scotland 2013
  • University of Newcastle 2013
  • Royal Society of Chemistry, London 2013
  • University of Edinburgh, Scotland 2013
  • University of Leicester 2013
  • University of Southampton, Gender Initiative conference 2013
  • EPSRC, tomorrow's leaders conference, Watford 2013
  • University of Liverpool 2013
  • University of Reading 2013
  • University of Glasgow 2012
  • Queen Mary College, University of London 2012
  • University of Lancaster 2012
  • University of Manchester 2012
  • University of Cardiff 2012
  • University of Durham 2012
  • Heriot Watt University, Scotland 2011
  • ECU Going for Gold conference, London 2011
  • Queen's Belfast, Queen's Gender Intiative lecture 2011
  • University of Glasgow 2011
  • University of Cambridge 2011
  • University of Leicester 2011
  • Napier University 2011
  • DeMontfort University 2011