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Winners of the European Tech Women Awards announced

The UK Department for International Trade (DIT) announced the winners of the first edition of the European Tech Women Awards. This took place virtually during London Tech Week on 2 September. The event recognised the accomplishments of 24 women from

athena-swan October 4, 2020October 4, 2020 Uncategorized Read more

Computer Weekly announces the Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2020

Computer Weekly has announced the 2020 list of the Most Influential Women in UK Technology, including this year’s winner, Anne-Marie Imafidon, CEO of Stemettes. Full article at Computer Weekly.

athena-swan October 4, 2020October 4, 2020 Uncategorized Read more

Online event: Discrimination in the recording studio

Quoting from https://www.facebook.com/events/551085988997013: Our team presents findings from an international online survey (n=387) of recording engineers, producers, and studio assistants’ experiences of discrimination and microaggressions within the recording studio. In this session we discuss how both our quantitative and qualitative

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UKRI harmonised diversity data

Earlier this summer, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) published data on diversity characteristics for the last 5 years, harmonised over its seven research councils. Quoting from UKRI: The dataset contains data on four protected characteristics (sex, age, ethnicity, disability) for:

athena-swan August 10, 2020August 10, 2020 Uncategorized Read more

Spotlight on gender, COVID-19 and the SDGs: Will the pandemic derail hard-won progress on gender equality?

A recent report from UN Women, the United Nations organisation dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women, examined the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on gender equality: This paper presents the latest evidence on the gendered impact of

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Turning words into actions: Eliminating racism and racial inequality in higher education

quoting from universitiesuk.ac.uk: This webinar will look at how institutions can effectively respond and take action to identify and implement change, and embed this across their university. We will hear lived experiences, as well as from university leadership and practitioners working

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QMUL EDI Team Book and Podcast Recommendations

The QMUL EDI Team has updated their Recommended Books and Podcasts webpages. This is a publicly available webpage, containing a number of books and podcasts relating to equality, diversity and inclusion.

athena-swan July 13, 2020July 13, 2020 Uncategorized Read more

Top 50 Women in Engineering (UK): Sustainability awards

On INWED day, the Womens Engineering Society were delighted to announce the winners of the Top 50 Women in Engineering (UK): Sustainability awards! Now in its fifth year, the 2020 WE50 celebrates women who have made a significant contribution within sustainability.

athena-swan July 13, 2020July 13, 2020 Uncategorized Read more

Women’s research during lockdown

An article published on the Guardian describes how women’s research has been adversely affected by the covid-19 lockdown. In April Dr Elizabeth Hannon, deputy editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, noticed that the number of article

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STEM Mode In: Online role-model events by Stemettes

STEMettes are running a series of online events presenting female role models, focussing on a different role model each week (we are now at the end of Week 6: Katherine Johnson week): As more of us are home, and many

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