{"id":237,"date":"2018-10-11T13:18:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T12:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=237"},"modified":"2018-10-11T13:18:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T12:18:21","slug":"female-uwe-students-celebrate-ada-lovelace-day-at-nhsbt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/female-uwe-students-celebrate-ada-lovelace-day-at-nhsbt\/","title":{"rendered":"Female UWE students celebrate Ada Lovelace Day at NHSBT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 9<sup>th<\/sup> October, female students from UWE Bristol visited NHS Blood &amp; Transplant&#8217;s Filton site, to celebrate and inspire women&#8217;s STEM careers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-238 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 85vw, 557px\" \/><\/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>Students had the opportunity to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visit Blood and Tissue Centres at NHSBT<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide2-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 85vw, 367px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>See demonstrations of the types of STEM careers within NHSBT, for example Research, Lab Analysis, Medical, ICT, Stats, Behavioural Science<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-241 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide4-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide4-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide4-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide4.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 85vw, 433px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Receive talks from high achieving women<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-240 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide3-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/10\/Slide3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 85vw, 426px\" \/>According to feedback, &#8220;Everyone enjoyed the afternoon and it was really insightful&#8221;. This was a great opportunity for women to see the successes of other women in a variety of STEM roles, which we hope to see grow in years to come!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 9th October, female students from UWE Bristol visited NHS Blood &amp; Transplant&#8217;s Filton site, to celebrate and inspire 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/female-uwe-students-celebrate-ada-lovelace-day-at-nhsbt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Female UWE students celebrate Ada Lovelace Day at NHSBT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","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=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}