On INWED day, the Womens Engineering Society were delighted to announce the winners of the Top 50 Women in Engineering (UK): Sustainability awards! Now in its fifth year, the 2020 WE50 celebrates women who have made a significant contribution within sustainability.
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.
Women in Engineering Wikithon June 24th.
The Women’s Engineering Society, Wikimedia UK, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, the Electrifying Women Project and Archives For London are creating an online “wikithon” to add articles about extraordinary women in engineering. It will teach how to edit and create articles and encourage participants to
Parents and carers slack channel
Just a short post today to add to Monday’s about the parents and carers network: https://equalities.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/2020/06/08/qmul-parents-and-carers-network/ There is also a slack channel for parents and carers in EECS to exchange ideas and support. https://join.slack.com/t/eecsparents/shared_invite/zt-e361dfpz-2K5EXlEARvgOQRo8gqWuZg
Black lives matter (statement from Head of School)
Dear EECS Students and Staff, Here in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, we stand in support of and solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and those peacefully protesting following the horrific killing of George Floyd in
QMUL parents and carers network
Queen Mary is launching a new Parents and Carers Network to give staff the opportunity to meet other parents and carers, to share experiences, offer and receive support and access a wide range of guidance and resources. The Network is open to any staff members in
Women’s research during lockdown
An article published on the Guardian describes how women’s research has been adversely affected by the covid-19 lockdown. In April Dr Elizabeth Hannon, deputy editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, noticed that the number of article
STEM Mode In: Online role-model events by Stemettes
STEMettes are running a series of online events presenting female role models, focussing on a different role model each week (we are now at the end of Week 6: Katherine Johnson week): As more of us are home, and many