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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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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

Lecturer in EECS Dr Mona Jaber was appointed to the IEEE Women in Engineering in UK and Ireland committee. She is one of ten committee members joining at the tail end of 2021. We asked her to describe the organisation

The Women in Science and Engineering society is holding a free online meeting about pathways to a career in technology. WISE will present their research into the UK tech industry and its implications for skill gaps and workforce imbalances. https://www.wisecampaign.org.uk/exploring-pathways-into-tech-careers/