{"id":1463,"date":"2019-10-18T10:49:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T09:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2019-10-18T10:49:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T09:49:22","slug":"women-like-me-relaunches-for-2019-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/women-like-me-relaunches-for-2019-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Like Me relaunches for 2019-20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Only 12% of engineers in the UK are women. Is this enough? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, it’s really not \u2013 we have an engineering skills shortage<\/a> as it is, and the low proportion of women in the workforce means that a whole pool of talent is going untapped<\/a>. Girls need to be able to see engineering as for them, connect with it as career and have access to positive female role models. And in turn, women need to feel supported to make a difference in the workplace once they get there, so that they not only go into, but stay in engineering roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To do something about that and bring people together, we launched ‘Women Like Me’, a project to open doors to girls and build resilience for women in engineering and funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious<\/a> scheme, last year at UWE Bristol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The project was a huge success – we paired 21 mid-career (senior) women engineers with 21 junior women engineers<\/strong> (less than five years\u2019 experience) in the Bristol and Bath area, in order to provide career and public engagement mentoring. The junior engineers took part in outreach activities resulting in over 10,240 children being engaged <\/strong>in with women engineers, through a variety of methods including school visits, public events and nationwide online presentations. After participating, engineers felt much more confident to undertake education outreach, and more likely to continue public engagement following the project.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read more about the outcomes of Women Like Me in 2018-2019 in this blog post<\/a> and in the project report<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building on the achievements of the first year, Dr Laura Hobbs<\/a> and Dr Laura Fogg-Rogers<\/a> will once again be running the project over the next year; we both have lots of experience of delivering outreach and engagement projects and are passionate about making Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths accessible to everyone, at all stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are interested in taking part in Women Like Me in 2019-20, please read on to find out who can take part and how to apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supporting women and girls in engineering<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women Like Me is a peer mentoring and outreach project aimed at boosting female representation in engineering. So what does that actually mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project will pair senior women engineers with junior women engineers to give them mentoring support as they start out in their engineering careers. In turn, junior women will undertake engineering education outreach in schools and at public events in the Bristol and Bath area. Engineering is a creative, socially conscious, and collaborative discipline, and this project aims to support girls and women to make a difference in society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who can take part?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mid-career and early career female engineers working in the Bristol and Bath area can get involved in the project. Senior <\/strong>women engineers have been working in engineering for more than five years<\/strong>. Junior<\/strong> women engineers are those with less than five years<\/strong>, and can include apprentices, trainees, students and postdoctoral researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What will it involve?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will offer networking opportunities <\/strong>to all participants during the project. Senior <\/strong>engineers will receive training in mentoring<\/strong> and meet with their junior engineer mentee<\/strong> at least twice during the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior<\/strong> engineers will receive mentoring support<\/strong> from senior engineers and training in public engagement<\/strong>. They will then undertake at least three engineering outreach activities<\/strong> in local schools and at local public events. Activities and coordination of events is provided and supported by UWE; participation is voluntary and we\u2019ll cover travel expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How can I find out more or sign up?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To apply for a place on this year’s programme, please complete the relevant enrolment form:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women Like Me 2019-20 Junior<\/a><\/strong> engineer enrolment<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women Like Me 2019-20 Senior<\/a><\/strong> engineer enrolment<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information, please email engineeringourfuture@uwe.ac.uk<\/a>. You can also follow the project on Twitter<\/a> for updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women Like Me is based in the Science Communication Unit<\/a> and Department of Engineering Design and Mathematics<\/a> at the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE). The project is organised by Dr Laura Hobbs<\/a> and was initiated by Dr Laura Fogg-Rogers<\/a>. By matching senior and junior female engineers and supporting junior engineers to connect with the children and young people as the engineers of tomorrow, the project will lead to impact both in the workplace today, and for the future of the engineering profession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only 12% of engineers in the UK are women. Is this enough? No, it’s really not \u2013 we have an engineering skills shortage as it is, and the low proportion of women in the workforce means that a whole pool of talent is going untapped. Girls need to be able to see engineering as for … Continue reading “Women Like Me relaunches for 2019-20”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,22],"tags":[131,12,28,32,25],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outreach","category-women-like-me","tag-diversity-in-stem","tag-laura-fogg-rogers","tag-laura-hobbs","tag-women-in-stem","tag-women-like-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","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=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}