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
Highlighting women in signal processing
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
Black history month at QMUL
This is a message from Simon Lucas (head of school at EECS). In October this year we will be marking Black History Month, an opportunity to celebrate the achievements, contributions and histories of Black people in the UK and around
IEEE PROGRESS Workshop
The IEEE has launched a virtual workshop that will take place October 26-27th on signal processing. PROGRESS (PROmotinG DiveRsity in Signal ProcESSing aims to support women and under-represented minorities in the field of signal processing.The objective is to promote diversity
Ada Lovelace Day (October 13th 2020)
Ada Lovelace day is held on the second Tuesday in October and celebrates women working in STEM around the world. This year it will be purely online but you can find videos from previous years on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRRgOeJy5Pk&list=PLKLzYBTgfhxk-1zF3_XX4CidwNB4wEKBc In 2019
Race Equality Action Group looking for volunteers
A new group focussing on race equality has been formed at Queen Mary. It is currently looking for volunteers to help out with priorities including: the ethnicity pay gap, supporting career progression, reducing student attainment gaps and investigating issues with
WISE schools outreach project
Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) are looking for female volunteers to be part of their schools outreach project. Their aim is to run events that will encourage more young women to take up computer science. They are recruiting right
New DeepMind AI scholarships for women and BAME students at QMUL
The Institute of Coding at Queen Mary has strengthened its relationship with DeepMind through scholarship programme for women and BAME students. DeepMind is a leading British artificial intelligence (AI) company which has renewed its support for under-represented students pursuing postgraduate
Two awards from the Women’s Engineering Society (nominations by 13th July)
The Women’s Engineering Society is looking for nominations and self-nominations by 13th July for two awards. The Amy Johnson Inspiration Award is given to an individual who is not currently working as an engineer for furthering diversity within engineering and
Challenging power in data science
Data science has never been more important but there is a considerable issue. The Data Feminism book is a collaboratively crafted book led by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein which seeks to investigate data science from a feminist perspective.