The winners of the 2019 WISE Awards were announced during a truly inspiring evening ceremony on 7 November 2019 at 8 Northumberland Avenue, London. Winners, finalists and guests had a fantastic night recognising individuals and organisations who are actively working to
IBM – QMUL event on women in technology
Following initial sessions with the Institute of Applied Data Science and Careers & Enterprise with IBM UK, Queen Mary is hosting a university conference featuring women in technology. The conference will have the theme #BalanceforBetter from this year’s International Women’s
Athena 2019: an Interactive Event Championing Women in Tech
Queen Mary is proud to announce a new event that is set to champion, encourage and inspire women to bring their skills to the technology sector. Queen Mary with the support of the Institute of Coding will host Athena
Posters celebrating Diversity in Computer Science
From the Queen Mary cs4fn team: It’s not quite like getting your face on £50, but we hope this is a good way to say thank you… As part of our work for the Institute of Coding, the Queen Mary
Royal Society of Chemistry: ‘Breaking the barriers’ report calls for zero-tolerance over academia’s inequality problem
Source: http://www.rsc.org/news-events/articles/2018/nov/breaking-the-barriers/ Quote: “Our new research finds 99% of women can evidence lack of retention and progression in academia, with poor management culture, funding and lack of opportunity cited as key barriers. Female chemists are being denied the opportunity to
Advance HE (Ireland): Advance HE responds to the Gender Equality Taskforce Action Plan
Exciting news from Ireland and the engagement of national HE with the Athena SWAN process! Source: https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-views/advance-he-responds-to-the-gender-equality-taskforce-action-plan Quote: “A new Action Plan by the Gender Equality Taskforce, on behalf of the Republic of Ireland’s Department of Education and Skills (DES),
N2Women Group Mentoring Program
This is promote the Mentoring Program put forward by the N2Women group (Networking Networking Women http://n2women.comsoc.org/) quoting from https://www.facebook.com/N2Women/: N2Women is a community of networking researchers that promotes inclusiveness and diversity and aims at fostering connections among under-represented groups in
Student profiles: Yanbei Chen and Nabila Nur
Yanbei Chen is studying for a PhD in Computer Science. Her research is mainly focused on deep learning for surveillance video analysis and she is a member of the school’s Computer Vision Research Group. (more …) Nabila Nur is studying
BBC: ‘People ask me where the doctor is’
Source: www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-45654320/people-ask-me-where-the-doctor-is Quote: “Dr Hayaatun Sillem is used to people asking her where Dr Sillem is – and they’re usually quite embarrassed to find out that she’s standing right in front of them. Since becoming the first woman to take
Guardian: The employers on a mission to improve diversity in IT
Source: www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jul/09/employers-mission-improve-diversity-it-technology Quote: “Big names such as Microsoft, the BBC and Cancer Research UK have signed up to employer-led initiative Tech Talent Charter to broaden the mix in the sector”