Within the Department of Surgery and Cancer, we champion and highlight the inspirational people that we have amongst our staff and students. The Department is particularly proud of our Women in Science, who are impacting their research areas, enhancing our working culture and pushing boundaries in every way. The Athena SWAN charter showcases the wealth of talent that our Department has across the broad range of expertise, services and divisions we recognise which contribute to an inspiring mix of skills, achievements and qualities that we. We have profiled some of these inspiring role models that we have called our Leading Lights as they really do light up our department.