About the Survey - Please note, the 2010 survey is now closed. The national analysis will be available here later this year.

The Athena Survey of Science Engineering and Technology (ASSET), is a low cost, open access, web-based survey of career progression in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics) in Higher Education.

It is designed to:

• raise awareness of the differences in male and female career progression (approaches, expectations, perceptions, and outcomes)
• increase awareness of the good practice policies, and processes which support and encourage sustainable and rewarding careers for women and men
• enable universities, HE and research funders, and STEMM policy makers to benchmark progress, and the impact of changes, over time.

Previous ASSET surveys ran in 2003, 2004, and 2006, which between them covered over 7,500 male and female respondents, from more than 70 universities.

The current project will complete the development, and secure the future, of ASSET, and it will possible for universities participating in the 2010 survey to access their own data easily, and speedily, and to compare themselves against UK figures.  It will provide a framework for future surveys with the intention that they should be run every 5/6 years, in a methodologically robust and cost effective way.