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Women in Research Mentoring Scheme event for UWE Bristol academic staff

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Monday 3rd December 2018, 12:00 – 14:00
Please see staff intranet for location
Come along to find out more about the Women in Research Mentoring Scheme and how you can get involved as a mentee/mentor and hear first hand accounts from current mentees/mentors.

Booking information

Please register to attend

Event details

This lunchtime event is open to any member of UWE academic staff and will begin with lunch and informal networking followed by presentations.

If you are not currently a WRMS member, feel free to come along and find out more about the scheme from the Chair, Harriet Shortt and how you can get involved as a mentor/mentee.

For more details about the scheme please see the UWE Bristol website.

If you are currently a WRMS member, please come along to network.

Listen to our keynote speaker, Amy Armstrong, an experienced coach, who will be talking about the value of mentoring, how a good mentoring relationship works and why mentoring for women can create a positive space for women.

Hear first-hand accounts, from one of our current mentors and mentees, about their experiences of being members of the WRMS.

Please register to attend. We look forward to seeing you there!

Biography: Amy Armstrong specialises in enabling leaders and their teams to excel under stress. Formerly a director of fast growing business in the EdTech sector, Amy combines 15 years of leadership and high-performance business, with extensive experience as an executive coach and clinical hypnotherapist. She has a deep interest in how we face and master the human challenges of work, and enjoys working with a diverse range of Bristol’s leaders, founders and rising stars to develop habits of sustainable success through calm, confidence and clarity.

For further information including location and detailed timings:

UWE Bristol events page (staff only)

Email: researchevents@uwe.ac.uk

Women Like Me launch event – becoming a leader in engineering

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Women Like Me has officially launched!

On 18th October we brought together our female engineers from around the Bristol and Bath region, who will be either mentoring other engineers, or undertaking outreach and public engagement activities with schools and communities to raise uptake and retention of women in engineering, and inspire the next generation.

It was a busy and rewarding day, and this is what we got up to.

Welcome Training – Becoming a Leader in Engineering

We started the day by welcoming our junior engineers, who joined us from a range of companies in the Bristol and Bath region. After introductions to each other and the scheme by Dr Laura Fogg Rogers, our first training session, delivered by Dr Laura Hobbs focused on STEM outreach, public engagement and working with schools. What is it, why do we do it and how do we go about it?

 

We then facilitated STEM Ambassador registration for our volunteers, and get together for an exchange of outreach ideas. Our senior engineers, who will be mentoring our junior engineers, joined us at lunch time ready for a packed afternoon. After meeting each other, mentors and mentees received an introduction to role modelling from Laura Fogg Rogers, followed by a session on mentoring for women by UWE’s Dr Harriet Short.

 

 

Participants brought with them something that represents what mentoring means to them, with lots of discussion to be had.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The engineer training closed with bespoke training on Leadership in Engineering from Wide Eyed Group‘s Caroline Morris, looking at the role of leaders, and how our leadership style can be used to encourage and influence others. We explored what it takes to be vulnerable and true to yourself, and how your unique qualities help your own leadership style.

Professionals from across the region then met to discuss science education, outreach, women in STEM and more, with the opportunity to receive free People Like Me taster training from WISE‘s Sarah Behenna.

If you have any questions about Curiosity Connections – Women Like Me or would like to support the project, please get in touch at engineeringourfuture@uwe.ac.uk.

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