{"id":6290,"date":"2022-01-13T09:12:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T09:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=6290"},"modified":"2022-05-04T12:24:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T11:24:01","slug":"how-to-make-engineering-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/how-to-make-engineering-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make engineering for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Engineering workforce in the UK is made up of only 12% Women and 7% of people from  black, Asian and minority ethnicity backgrounds &#8211; so no wonder the sector is experiencing an employee shortfall! Engineering Industries are missing out on over half of the population, as well as, the vast range of experiences and perspectives that a diverse employee base brings to the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nccuk.com\/deti\/\">Digital Engineering Technology and Innovation<\/a>&nbsp;(DETI)&#8217;s Innovate team at UWE Bristol wants to address the shortfall of engineers by finding how to best enable these underrepresented groups to enter and progress in the world of Engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We asked Women, those with Neurodiversity, and people from Black, Asian, Brown and dual-heritage backgrounds, in the West of England &#8211; to tell us what they needed &#8211; check out the summary doc below to find out more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/05\/Two-page-Executive-summary-for-Listening-Workshops-04.05.22.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Embed of Listening- Worshops-Executive-Summary..\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-ee172c21-06cd-4096-b158-005cd63beb0b\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/05\/Two-page-Executive-summary-for-Listening-Workshops-04.05.22.pdf\">Listening- Worshops-Executive-Summary<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/05\/Two-page-Executive-summary-for-Listening-Workshops-04.05.22.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-ee172c21-06cd-4096-b158-005cd63beb0b\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Engineering workforce in the UK is made up of only 12% Women and 7% of people from black, Asian and minority ethnicity backgrounds &#8211; so no wonder the sector is experiencing an employee shortfall! Engineering Industries are missing out on over half of the population, as well as, the vast range of experiences and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/how-to-make-engineering-for-everyone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to make engineering for everyone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":7519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,151,90,1,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deti","category-diversity-and-inclusion","category-research","category-uncategorised","category-women-like-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6290"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8653,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions\/8653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}