{"id":167,"date":"2018-09-26T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T12:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=167"},"modified":"2018-10-05T17:05:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T16:05:51","slug":"celebrating-ada-lovelace-day-at-nhsbt-opportunity-for-female-uwe-bristol-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/celebrating-ada-lovelace-day-at-nhsbt-opportunity-for-female-uwe-bristol-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day at NHSBT &#8211; opportunity for female UWE Bristol students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open Day: 9<sup>th<\/sup> October 2018, NHS Blood &amp; Transplant, Filton<\/p>\n<p><strong>Celebrating and Inspiring Women&#8217;s STEM Careers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/findingada.com\/\">Ada Lovelace Day<\/a> is an annual international celebration of the achievements of women in\u00a0science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). It aims to increase the profile of women in STEM\u00a0and, in doing so, create new role models who will encourage more girls into STEM careers and support\u00a0women already working in STEM.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-168\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/Ada-Lovelace-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/Ada-Lovelace-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/Ada-Lovelace.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-170\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/Ada-Lovelace-first-computer-scientist-211x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/Ada-Lovelace-first-computer-scientist-211x300.png 211w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/Ada-Lovelace-first-computer-scientist.png 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 85vw, 211px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NHS Blood and Transplant\u00a0(NHSBT) are holding a free\u00a0open day at their Filton site. They are\u00a0inviting female students to go and see the careers available to them within\u00a0the organisation, and learn something about the amazing careers and professional achievements of the women who work there.<\/p>\n<p>They are offering:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Opportunities to visit Blood and Tissue Centres at NHSBT<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrations of the types of STEM careers within NHSBT, for example Research, Lab Analysis, Medical, ICT, Stats, Behavioural Science<\/li>\n<li>Talks by high achieving women<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two sessions will be held on 9<sup>th<\/sup> October; the first at\u00a09:30-12:00 and then repeated at 13:00-15:30.<\/p>\n<p>UWE Bristol are providing free minibuses for their female students to attend. If you would like to book a place, please contact <a href=\"mailto:Paul.White@uwe.ac.uk\">Paul White<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Day: 9th October 2018, NHS Blood &amp; Transplant, Filton Celebrating and Inspiring Women&#8217;s STEM Careers Ada Lovelace Day is an annual international celebration of the achievements of women in\u00a0science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). It aims to increase the profile of women in STEM\u00a0and, in doing so, create new role models who will encourage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/celebrating-ada-lovelace-day-at-nhsbt-opportunity-for-female-uwe-bristol-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day at NHSBT &#8211; opportunity for female UWE Bristol students&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,24],"tags":[41,40,32],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-outreach","tag-ada-lovelace-day","tag-nhsbt","tag-women-in-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","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=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}