On Wednesday 3rd April 2019, alongside our Women Like Me celebration, UWE Bristol will be linking up with the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) and Heritage Open Days to host a Wikithon celebrating women in engineering, and the WES Centenary year. Extraordinary Women in Engineering: a WES Wikithon – UWE Bristol Come and join us to … Continue reading “Join us for a Wikithon celebrating women in engineering”
A recent event at our Women Like Me funder, the Royal Academy of Engineering, explored “the benefits and challenges of a more joined-up approach to inspiring the next generation of engineers”. Reflections on the event, and what an effective STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) engagement strategy actually looks like, are now available from The Engineer. … Continue reading “Read reflections on RAEng This Is Engineering Engagement event”
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2019, UWE Bristol will be hosting a series of talks and workshops around the theme “Balance for Better”. There will also be stalls, a networking lunch, a choir and a raffle with all proceeds going to Refugee Women of Bristol and Womankind. How to attend If you would like to … Continue reading “UWE International Women’s Day 2019 Celebration – Balance for Better”
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!”
Curiosity Connections – Women Like Me is a Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious funded project. Curiosity Connections is a Bristol-based network for primary Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) teachers and science communicators, while Women Like Me pairs senior engineers with junior engineers for mentoring, with the junior engineers undertaking outreach activities with children and … Continue reading “Female engineers come together for outreach surgery at Curiosity Connections 2019”
Dr Vanda Papafilippou, lecturer in Human Resource Management at UWE Bristol, is undertaking new research into engagement of female engineers with women’s networks and how this relates to their career identities. Please see below for details and get in touch with Vanda on Vanda.Papafilippou@uwe.ac.uk if you’d like to take part, or for further information. If … Continue reading “Female engineers engaged in women’s networks invited to participate in new research”
For the first time at Bristol University, Women in Leadership, Law, Finance, Technology, Engineering and STEM are collaborating for a week long series of events, starting 4th February 2019. These include a coffee morning, a careers fair, mutliple panel events, talks, an exhibition and plenty of networking drinks. All of these events aim to celebrate … Continue reading “Women in Conversation 2019”
Women Like Me participant and graduate engineer at Peter Brett Associates Rachel Kirkwood tells us about her very successful online presentation for the Leaders Award in this guest post. On Thursday 17th January I spoke to almost 2,000 primary and secondary school children across the nation about all things engineering via a live online video … Continue reading ““An amazing opportunity for me to share my route into engineering””
A team of UWE Bristol engineering students: Miriam Cristofoletti (Robotics) Katy O’Hara Nash (Electronics) Olesya Klyuchenkova (Aerospace) Georgina Packham (Mechanical) have now picked one of the winning designs from this year’s Leaders Award to turn into reality. The team are part of UWE’s Women in Science and Engineering student society and Katy is also a participant in our Women Like Me mentoring and outreach … Continue reading “Engineers from UWE’s Women in Science and Engineering Society excited to be building Leaders Award winning design”
Our Faculty and Service Liaison Manager within the Student Journey Programme at UWE Bristol, Aimée Atkinson, also writes for the City Girl Network Magazine. We are sharing her recently published piece on volunteering as a mentor at work here as an Engineering Our Future blog post, with their kind permission. Aimée also jointly coordinates UWE’s Women’s Forum. … Continue reading “How To Volunteer At Work: Mentoring”
