Skip to content

Equalities @ EECS

Queen Mary University of London

Menu

  • Resources

Author: richard

Interview: Professor Yue Chen (Director of Scholarship)

Professor Yue Chen has moved into a new role as Director of Scholarship. This interview explores what the role means and why she feels passionate about it. What is the Director of Scholarship role? The main duty of the role

richard July 18, 2023July 18, 2023 Uncategorized Read more

LGBT+ history month at QMUL

February is traditionally designated to celebrate the LGBT+ History Month, and as part of this initiative, many colleagues at EECS and across the University paid tribute and celebrated the LGBT+ community and their allies.  You can read about the EE

richard March 5, 2023March 5, 2023 Uncategorized Read more

Perspectives from a prospective CS student

My name is Ines, I am 17 and currently in Year 13.   I study politics, computer science, and mathematics, and my favourite varies each week. In politics, I enjoy studying and learning about political ideas and concepts, especially feminism! I

richard March 5, 2023March 5, 2023 Uncategorized Read more

Book review: Design Justice (Sasha Costanza-Chock) reviewed by Ashley Laurent Noel-Hirst

Book review: Design Justice (Sasha Costanza-Chock) reviewed by Ashley Laurent Noel-Hirst

This review is from Ashley Laurent Noel-Hirst a first year PhD student at QMUL, part of Centre for Digital Music. If you have ever wondered why facial recognition software routinely fails black women; ’security’ AI systems increase risk of violence to intersectionally

richard March 5, 2023March 5, 2023 Uncategorized Read more

Thoughts on holocaust memorial day by Prof Mark Sandler

When I was a child (I was born just 10 years after World War 2 ended) there was no word we used for the genocides that Nazi Germany committed. To a large extent, these things weren’t spoken of. My best

richard January 30, 2023January 30, 2023 Uncategorized Read more

Interview — Director of Wellbeing Mahesha Samaratunga

What does a director of wellbeing do? Initially I didn’t know what I was going to do. It sounded exciting to be known as the director of wellbeing but I had not figured out what the Director of wellbeing can

richard January 5, 2023January 27, 2023 Uncategorized Read more

Grace Hopper Celebration Open Source day report

On September 16th, Naomi Arnold from the Networks Group in EECS attended the Grace Hopper Celebration’s Open Source Day. This is a virtual all-day hackathon celebrating women who work in open source software. Open source software still has huge under

richard November 9, 2022January 27, 2023 Uncategorized Read more

New EECS centre on Scholarship

There is a new centre in EECS for supporting staff in their Scholarship activities! The initiative started in January 2022 when Marie-Luce launched a survey of all Teaching and Scholarship (T&S) staff about what the Scholarship part of their role

richard September 7, 2022January 27, 2023 Uncategorized Read more

Women in Engineering Career Development Day 30th September

This event is being organised by Mona Jaber (m.jaber@qmul.ac.uk) and aims at students in electronic and communication engineering who want to: Meet and hear about the latest technologies and research by leaders in the field, Get advice about career paths

richard September 7, 2022January 27, 2023 Uncategorized Read more

Jewish Ethnicity and Diversity forms

Mark Sandler is a Professor of Signal Processing in EECS. He agreed to talk to us about his experiences of many years of filling in Diversity Monitoring forms and in particular the Higher Education Statistics Agency diversity forms. Mark is

richard June 22, 2022January 27, 2023 Uncategorized Read more
  • « Previous

Recent Posts

  • The importance of Mental Health during a PhD
  • Navigating Academia with a Newborn: An Intimate Conversation 
  • Interview: Professor Yue Chen (Director of Scholarship)
  • Book Review: Women in IT: Inspiring the Next Generation (2014), BCS Publishing
  • Book review: “The Algorithmic Leader: How to Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter Than You” by Mike Walsh
  • Wiki-editing event for International Women’s Day
  • LGBT+ history month at QMUL

Archives

  • Resources
Copyright © 2023 Equalities @ EECS. All rights reserved. Theme Spacious by ThemeGrill. Powered by: WordPress.