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A report from the office of students shows great news on student numbers for postgraduate conversion courses. These courses have recently had 1,000 scholarships created aimed at tackling diversity issues by recruiting from underrepresented groups. They have also been designed

QMUL has launched the “Dignity and respect” champions network. This aims to provide confidential advice for those targeted by harassment or bullying. This is a service providing guidance, assistance and advice for any members of staff. It also provides a

As part of IEEE ICC conference a free event “Women In Engineering: The journey continues” will be held on 14th June. The times are 10:00-12:45 GMT-4. (Which translates to the slightly awkward 5:00-7:45 in BST). There are a great selection

The Royal Society has put their commissioned report on ethnicity in STEM online. You can find the full report here https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/publications/2021/trends-ethnic-minorities-stem/ The aim of the report was to look into why “talented black people are not finding science careers in

This online event organised by Imperial College, the Science Museum, the University of Leeds, the IET and the Women’s Engineering Society will take place on March 10th. Wikipedia needs updating to ensure it accurately reflects the many contributions of women

DeepMind has a fully funded PhD studentship to start September ’21 which is in the area of AI or Machine Learning. The studentship is available to researchers who identify as female and/or are of Black ethnicity (as they are underrepresented

The issue of recruiting women in STEM is sometimes blamed on the lack of role model women scientists. There are some very nice posters produced by QMUL with images of women’s contributions to computer science. https://teachinglondoncomputing.org/2020/03/03/women-in-computing-free-posters-for-uk-schools-from-iocoding-digitalskillsmatter-jb/ Two organisations are seeking

Tech talent charter’s “doing it anyway” campaign is helping women get into tech careers. They list inspiring stories from women who started out or retrained into tech careers. They also encourage training through the Institute of Coding and have a

The Women in Science and Engineering group (WISE) are celebrating the fact that there are more than 1 million women working in core STEM roles across the UK for the first time ever. To celebrate this they are creating a

The IEEE signal processing society has begun a new series highlighting women in signal processing. This begins this month with a profile of Dr. Mari Ostendorf. https://signalprocessingsociety.org/newsletter/2020/10/series-highlight-women-signal-processing-dr-mari-ostendorf