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“You can do better than giving me these dreary designs”

Prof. Praminda Caleb-Solly, Professor of Assistive Robotics and Intelligent Health Technologies at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UWE Bristol and Head of Electronics and Computer Systems at Designability, shares with us her poem about integrating arts with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (so that STEM becomes STEAM) in this guest post. One of my recent projects was … Continue reading ““You can do better than giving me these dreary designs””

UWE Bristol’s Speak Up campaign hosts successful panel event for International Day to end violence against women

On 26th November 2018, a panel discussion was held as part of UWE Bristol’s SpeakUp campaign, which aims to create an inclusive campus where diversity is celebrated, antisocial attitudes and behaviours are challenged and any type of harassment, assault and discrimination aren’t acceptable. In this guest post, Student Inclusivity Project Coordinator Sarah Dickinson tells us more about … Continue reading “UWE Bristol’s Speak Up campaign hosts successful panel event for International Day to end violence against women”

November is Global Month of Play – Real Play Coalition

The Real Play Coalition was formed in 2018 by IKEA, The LEGO Foundation, Unilever’s Persil, OMO and Surf Excel, and National Geographic. This November, they have introduced the Global Month of Play to “help combat the erosion of play”. The website provides a free newsletter and activity finder and lots of play-based activities giving children the … Continue reading “November is Global Month of Play – Real Play Coalition”

Bristol and Bath to rival global innovation leaders says new report

Our Women Like Me project features engineers from Rolls Royce and Airbus, both of which have been named as important drivers, along with several UWE Bristol facilities such as Future Space, the Health Technology hub and Bristol Robotics Laboratory, in making the Bristol and Bath city region one of the most exciting innovation clusters in the … Continue reading “Bristol and Bath to rival global innovation leaders says new report”

We need more Engine-Ears

This is a guest post from Louise Hetherington, assistant structural engineer at Atkins and participant in UWE Bristol’s Women Like Me programme. Louise has been involved in developing Engine-Ears, Atkins’ first STEM video for 7-11 years olds, and tells us more about it here. Empowering young people to re-imagine STEM and change the future STEM subjects … Continue reading “We need more Engine-Ears”

UK’s largest robotics conference comes to Bristol

Robotics and technology experts from the across the globe are coming to Bristol for a leading conference being hosted by Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL). Now in its 19th year, the TAROS (Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems) event is the longest running UK-hosted international conference on robotics and autonomous systems and largest robotics conference in the country. Between 25-27th July at … Continue reading “UK’s largest robotics conference comes to Bristol”