This conference will be held in Central London to promote women in STEM subjects. The welcome address is by Dr Hayaatun Silem, CEO, Royal Academy of Engineering. The full program is available here. From the conference website: The Women in
N2 Women news
N2Women just announced their list for 2019 Stars in Networking and communications: Elisa Bertino, Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, USA https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/bertino/ Melike Erol-Kantarci, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Ottawa, Canada http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~merolka2/ Sonia
New DeepMind scholarships launch at Queen Mary to encourage more women in AI
In the years ahead, we are likely to see the transformative power of AI affect society in ways that we can only imagine today. For this technology to impact positively on how we live, it is essential that those developing
2019 WISE Awards Winners Announced
The winners of the 2019 WISE Awards were announced during a truly inspiring evening ceremony on 7 November 2019 at 8 Northumberland Avenue, London. Winners, finalists and guests had a fantastic night recognising individuals and organisations who are actively working to
IBM – QMUL event on women in technology
Following initial sessions with the Institute of Applied Data Science and Careers & Enterprise with IBM UK, Queen Mary is hosting a university conference featuring women in technology. The conference will have the theme #BalanceforBetter from this year’s International Women’s
Athena 2019: an Interactive Event Championing Women in Tech
Queen Mary is proud to announce a new event that is set to champion, encourage and inspire women to bring their skills to the technology sector. Queen Mary with the support of the Institute of Coding will host Athena
Posters celebrating Diversity in Computer Science
From the Queen Mary cs4fn team: It’s not quite like getting your face on £50, but we hope this is a good way to say thank you… As part of our work for the Institute of Coding, the Queen Mary
Royal Society of Chemistry: ‘Breaking the barriers’ report calls for zero-tolerance over academia’s inequality problem
Source: http://www.rsc.org/news-events/articles/2018/nov/breaking-the-barriers/ Quote: “Our new research finds 99% of women can evidence lack of retention and progression in academia, with poor management culture, funding and lack of opportunity cited as key barriers. Female chemists are being denied the opportunity to
Advance HE (Ireland): Advance HE responds to the Gender Equality Taskforce Action Plan
Exciting news from Ireland and the engagement of national HE with the Athena SWAN process! Source: https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-views/advance-he-responds-to-the-gender-equality-taskforce-action-plan Quote: “A new Action Plan by the Gender Equality Taskforce, on behalf of the Republic of Ireland’s Department of Education and Skills (DES),
N2Women Group Mentoring Program
This is promote the Mentoring Program put forward by the N2Women group (Networking Networking Women http://n2women.comsoc.org/) quoting from https://www.facebook.com/N2Women/: N2Women is a community of networking researchers that promotes inclusiveness and diversity and aims at fostering connections among under-represented groups in