{"id":244,"date":"2018-10-13T15:55:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T14:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=244"},"modified":"2018-12-08T14:23:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T14:23:44","slug":"women-like-me-and-leaders-award-represented-at-first-friday-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/women-like-me-and-leaders-award-represented-at-first-friday-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Like Me and Leaders Award represented at First Friday Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday 5th<\/sup> October 2018, UWE Bristol project Women Like Me<\/a> and the Leaders Award<\/a> supported by UWE Bristol were presented to leading media editors at the First Friday Club meeting in London.<\/p>\n

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Presenting to the editors\u2019 briefing, Chris Rochester<\/a>, UK Director, Primary Engineer said: \u201cIn 2017\/18 academic year we continued to develop our programmes across the UK which included working with 988 schools, 3,833 teachers and 1,325 engineers. Each one getting involved and helping nearly 57,000 children to understand that engineering is a broad profession with myriad opportunities. It emphasises engineering is a diverse sector which thrives on ingenuity and creativity of the professionals working within it\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the South West, the Leaders Award is supported by Defence, Equipment and Support<\/a> (DE&S), the MOD\u2019s procurement organisation, along with UWE Bristol.<\/p>\n

Air Marshal Julian Young,\u00a0Chief of Materiel Air, and who is the Ministry of Defence\u2019s Engineering Champion and lead Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) Ambassador for DE&S,\u00a0said: \u201cI am delighted that the Defence Sector is rising to the challenge of increasing its diversity in our Engineering profession, whether that is cultural, gender or nationality, and we are working closely with a range of STEM-related organizations, including Primary Engineer, to help to encourage young women and girls to not only express an interest in Engineering, but to follow that through into a career and a successful one at that!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Two female engineers from Defence, Equipment and Support also gave accounts of their personal journeys into engineering. May Holmes started her career as a primary teacher \u2013 unaware there was more than one kind of engineering aside from civil engineering – before joining DE&S as a mechanical engineer.\u00a0 She said: \u201cNot all young people are lucky enough to be introduced to and experience STEM, which can be to the detriment of younger generations reaching their full potential as well as to STEM professions \u2013 particularly with current and predicted future skills shortages in STEM roles.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThrough programmes such as Primary Engineer, I enjoy challenging young people\u2019s perception of what Engineering is, who an Engineer is, and encouraging all young people that it can, in fact, be for everyone.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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UWE Bristol are supporting the South West Leaders Awards and hosting the winners\u2019 Awards Ceremony. A team of female student engineers from the UWE Women in Science and Engineering Society will build the winning design from 2018. Alongside this, UWE Bristol is galvanising support from local industries through their Women Like Me<\/a> mentoring programme, where local female engineers will work with schools over the coming year.<\/p>\n

Dr Laura Fogg-Rogers<\/a>, who is the project lead and a science communication researcher at UWE Bristol, said: \u201cEngineers are highly creative people who can help to solve many of society\u2019s problems. It\u2019s a really collaborative profession, where you have to work together in teams to see your visions and designs come to fruition. The range of roles and careers is really diverse, and that\u2019s what we\u2019d like to emphasise to all young people, particularly girls. You can make your own mark in engineering!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Edited from a press release by Neil Fullbrook, Cadence\u00a0neil@thecadenceteam.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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