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Sarah Guppy show and women in STEM panel discussion recorded for schools

Back in November, Show of Strength‘s production about Sarah Guppy – engineer, inventor, campaigner, designer, reformer, writer, environmentalist and business woman – opened to great reviews. These included comments such as: “You won’t look at Isambard Kingdom Brunel or the Clifton Suspension Bridge in quite the same way ever again after seeing this piece.” and: … Continue reading “Sarah Guppy show and women in STEM panel discussion recorded for schools”

See Sarah Guppy and more for International Women’s Day

UWE Bristol are supporting Show of Strength‘s production ‘Sarah Guppy: The Bridge, The Bed, The Truth’, all about the pioneering, but overlooked, female engineer. For International Women’s Day 2019, free 10 minute performances will be given at the City Hall in Bristol on Saturday 2nd May – see below and the Show of Strength website … Continue reading “See Sarah Guppy and more for International Women’s Day”

Hinkley C new drilling kit is named after SARAH GUPPY!

Along with three tunnel boring machines named after inspirational women, new drilling kit which will be used at the new Hinkley C power station is to be named after Sarah Guppy – engineer, pioneer and subject of Show of Strength‘s recent stage show. Producer Sheila Hannon tells us more in this guest post: ‘Sarah Guppy’ … Continue reading “Hinkley C new drilling kit is named after SARAH GUPPY!”

Show of Strength’s story of Sarah Guppy inspires in Bristol and Monmouth

Show of Strength‘s Sarah Guppy: The Bridge, The Bed, The Truth has been showing this week in Bristol and Monmouth, opening to a full house and great reception. In the Year of Engineering and Centenary of Women’s Suffrage, the show tells the story of Sarah Guppy, an engineer, inventor, campaigner, designer, reformer, writer, environmentalist and business woman. Sarah moved … Continue reading “Show of Strength’s story of Sarah Guppy inspires in Bristol and Monmouth”

Sarah Guppy: The Bridge, The Bed, The Truth opens to great reviews

“You won’t look at Isambard Kingdom Brunel or the Clifton Suspension Bridge in quite the same way ever again after seeing this piece.” In the Year of Engineering and Centenary of Women’s Suffrage, Show of Strength are bringing us the opportunity to learn more about Bristol pioneer Sarah Guppy, the first woman to patent a bridge and formally design one. ‘Sarah … Continue reading “Sarah Guppy: The Bridge, The Bed, The Truth opens to great reviews”

Sarah Guppy: The Bridge, The Bed, The Truth

In the Year of Engineering and Centenary of Women’s Suffrage, Show of Strength are bringing us the opportunity to learn more about Bristol pioneer Sarah Guppy, the first woman to patent a bridge and formally design one. Sarah Guppy was an engineer, inventor, campaigner, designer, reformer, writer, environmentalist and business woman. Born Sarah Maria Beach … Continue reading “Sarah Guppy: The Bridge, The Bed, The Truth”

Women Like Me relaunches for 2020-21

Women Like Me is a peer mentoring and outreach project, aimed at boosting female representation in engineering. The project was first launched in 2018 and is based in the Science Communication Unit and Department of Engineering Design and Mathematics at UWE Bristol. The project is organised by Dr Laura Hobbs and Dr Laura Fogg-Rogers, and … Continue reading “Women Like Me relaunches for 2020-21”