{"id":1134,"date":"2019-03-21T09:41:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T09:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2019-03-21T09:41:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T09:41:40","slug":"co-founder-stella-warren-on-new-alta-mentoring-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/co-founder-stella-warren-on-new-alta-mentoring-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-founder Stella Warren on new alta mentoring scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Our keynote speaker at the upcoming <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/free-event-women-like-me-boosting-mentoring-for-women-in-stem-in-the-west-of-england\/\"><em>Women Like Me closing event<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/people.uwe.ac.uk\/Person\/StellaWarren\"><em>Stella Warren<\/em><\/a><em>, tells us all about the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/mentoring-platform-launched-for-women-in-aerospace-and-aviation-to-help-reduce-gender-inequality-in-the-industry\/\"><em>new alta mentoring scheme<\/em><\/a><em> in this guest post. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/stella-warren.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1135\" width=\"163\" height=\"198\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Stella is a Research Associate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.uwe.ac.uk\/bl\/research\/bristolleadershipandchange.aspx\">Bristol Leadership and Change Centre<\/a> with a background in applied social research. She supports a wide range of research project teams within <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.uwe.ac.uk\/bl\/bbs.aspx\">Bristol Business School<\/a> and also teaches research methods at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her expertise includes social marketing and the understanding of psychological pathways for behaviour change in health; gender and inequality in organisations; the gender pay gap; and women working in male-dominated industries. She is a founder member of alta, a mentoring scheme for professional women in aviation and aerospace.\u00a0She is also a\u00a0member of the British and European Sociological Association and on the board of the Research Network \u2018Gender Relations, Labour Markets and the Welfare State (RN14).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mentoring scheme extends beyond the boundaries of the participating organisations, to impact on the industry at the national and international levels. After an initial pilot phase, <em>alta <\/em>was launched to the industry on 8<sup>th<\/sup> March, 2019 \u2013 International Women\u2019s Day. It aims to empower women to gain confidence by receiving guidance from a more experienced woman in the industry and looks to change the way females are perceived in male dominated industries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>alta<\/em> is hosted by the Royal Aeronautical Society and is part of their commitment to delivering on the pledges it made as a supporter of the Women in Aviation Charter, which was signed by government and industry representatives in June, 2018. <em>alta<\/em> is the first mentoring scheme of its kind in the industry and is currently open to professional women in the industry, with the help of financial donations from industry bodies and employers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our keynote speaker at the upcoming Women Like Me closing event, Stella Warren, tells us all about the new alta mentoring scheme in this guest post. Stella is a Research Associate in the Bristol Leadership and Change Centre with a background in applied social research. She supports a wide range of research project teams within &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/co-founder-stella-warren-on-new-alta-mentoring-scheme\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Co-founder Stella Warren on new alta mentoring scheme&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":1136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,15,22],"tags":[57,140,25],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engineering-our-future-people","category-events","category-women-like-me","tag-mentoring","tag-stella-warren","tag-women-like-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}