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
Doing a PhD while raising a family | EECS
John Xavier Riley Tell us about your work at QMUL? I’m a 3rd year PhD student in the Artificial Intelligence and Music (AIM) program at the EECS school. My research centres around automatic music transcription using a variety of methods
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
Dialogues for a neglected illness
Valerie Eliot-Smith, a Visiting Scholar at CCLS at Queen Mary has been championing awareness around ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis) as she has been living with it since 1981. Over the last two years, she has advised on, and contributed to, a
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
World Bipolar Day
On World Bipolar Day (30 March, 2022), Director of Wellbeing Dr. Mahesha Samaratunga shares her advice on how we might help and support our students and each other by raising our awareness about bipolar disorder. We have students amongst us
Attitudes towards gender-inclusive language. A multinational perspective
International Conference 9th September 2022 (online) This international conference will bring together researchers studying attitudes towards gender-neutral language in different languages and countries. Gender-neutral and gender-inclusive language is currently being discussed in the public sphere, and views on the subject
Supporting Muslim students and colleagues during Ramadan
The evening of Friday 1 April marked the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, which is a religious month observed by many Muslims in the UK and around the world. Ramadan falls at a different time each year because