UWE’s School of Engineering is celebrating 5 years of running the Women Like Me scheme in the West of England. Since 2018, we have supported over 250 women from tens of local businesses to develop their careers in engineering. The programme pairs mid-career women engineers with junior women engineers in the Bristol and Bath area to provide career and public engagement mentoring. The junior women then undertake outreach activities in local schools and events. The scheme is still much needed, as only 16% of engineers and 18% of chartered surveyors in the UK are women.
This year the scheme has expanded to include women in the property business, where women surveying students are paired with women surveying professionals. The scheme has been supported this year by construction, property and management consultancy RLB. Previous support from the DETI project has enabled us to partner with STEMazing to provide mentoring support and outreach training.
Women Like Me has the below exciting events coming up, which are particularly aimed at female engineering students and mentors. These events are supported by construction, property and management consultancy RLB.
Beyond technical brilliance: Using influencing skills to enable career success
Caroline Gourlay, Business psychologist and leadership coach
Online, Tuesday 28 November, 16.15 – 17.15
Celebration of 5 years of Women Like Me
Panel talk: Career journey with Q&A and networking time
This is a hybrid event, held in the School of Engineering with the panel discussion being available online. The session is open to everyone who has taken part in Women Like Me over the past five years. People are to register via this link. The organisers will get in touch with everyone who registers to either send them a MS Teams link, or directions to the event and to arrange parking in the visitors car park.
Monday 4 December 16.15 – 17.15
Some of the events are run by the surveying charity, Lionheart and their expert trainers. Whilst the Lionheart sessions are primarily open to surveyors and surveying students, there will be six additional spaces for non-surveying disciplines. These additional places will be allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis.
To ensure yourself a space, please do sign up to events as soon as possible. You can register here, and links will be circulated to those who have registered. You can also contact the organiser Samantha Organ (samantha2.organ@uwe.ac.uk) for any questions.