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The International Women in Engineering Day will be celebrated on 23 June 2020! The theme for this year is Shape the World. You can sign up to its newsletter, or simply join its virtual activities, or sign up your activity

Jobs.ac.uk is hosting a new women’s career event on 28 March 2020: We are delighted to welcome you to our inaugural event, Women in STEM Careers 2020, hosted by jobs.ac.uk. At a time when women only account for 22% of

Carnegie UK Trust, Operation Black Vote and UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies have published a report on Race Inequality in the Workforce: Exploring connections between work, ethnicity and mental health. Quoting from the report: In this report, we present new

From https://www.un.org/en/observances/women-and-girls-in-science-day: Science and gender equality are both vital for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Over the past 15 years, the global community has made a lot of effort in

A call for applications for Springboard Women’s Development Programme has opened with a deadline for submission of midday 26th February 2020. Springboard is a four month personal and professional development programme for those identifying as women. It offers participants the opportunity to undertake

Queen Mary is proud of its diverse staff and student body and recognises the significant contribution LGBTQ+ people have made to the University and the wider community. The University is proud to be part of the annual celebration of LGBT+

Application deadline: 27 January 2020. Application page: https://www.forwomeninscience.com/en/fellowships/563719035 The awards have been designed to provide flexible and practical financial support to ensure these women further their research and careers. With the flexible grant, winners may choose to spend their fellowship

This conference will be held in Central London to promote women in STEM subjects. The welcome address is by Dr Hayaatun Silem, CEO, Royal Academy of Engineering. The full program is available here. From the conference website: The Women in

N2Women just announced their list for 2019 Stars in Networking and communications: Elisa Bertino, Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, USA https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/bertino/ Melike Erol-Kantarci, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Ottawa, Canada http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~merolka2/ Sonia

In the years ahead, we are likely to see the transformative power of AI affect society in ways that we can only imagine today. For this technology to impact positively on how we live, it is essential that those developing