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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Raspberry Pi Guide to Culturally relevant and responsive computing
Raspberry Pi Foundation have produced a short (20 page) booklet based on their research into criteria for learning resources that promote diversity. While their research is aimed at teachers of students up to 18 years old there is something we
Active bystander training
Active bystander training is about how to react when you encounter workplace behaviour that you don’t consider appropriate. QMUL organises it as part of their professional development training. In QMUL over fifty senior members of staff have received this training