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 to be flexible and fit around other work and caring responsibilities.
The official announcement from the Office for Students is here:
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 way for serious allegations to be taken to the appropriate university authority. Currently there are no representatives from SEMS enrolled as dignity and respect champions. You can find out more about the scheme here:
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 of speakers and a networking session at the end. You can see all the details on the website here:
The aim of the report was to look into why “talented black people are not finding science careers in UK academia”. The key findings of the report can be found in more detail in the above report but, in brief: 1) Black, Asian and multi-ethnic candidates are less likely to apply for Royal Society early career fellowships (even when considering the small numbers eligible to apply). 2) These groups are under represented in the eligible pool and applications to Royal Society schemes. 3) There is “little to no” representation of Black postdoctoral researchers. They highlight some possible steps forward including mentorship and workshops. The full reports include thorough data and analysis.
This interactive workshop will help you to address problems you’ve encountered around addressing
inappropriate behaviour and work towards building a healthy workplace culture of constructive challenge
and personal responsibility. All sessions include tried and tested decision-making and personal
effectiveness techniques, designed to overcome the initial fear of tackling challenging situations.
Develop decision-making skills and overcome fear and paralysis in challenging situations;
Identify personal effectiveness techniques to tackle difficult conversations;
Explore verbal and non-verbal language techniques to challenge unacceptable behaviours. Book your place by searching ‘active bystander’ on QMUL CPD Booking System
12:00-13:00 Mindful Wellbeing for Women with OPD team
Investing in your wellbeing has proven to help reduce stress and create a more positive work-life balance. This interactive workshop will explore the links between work, health and mental wellbeing and your role in promoting wellbeing for yourself and others. Join us to connect with like-mind women to open up the discussion around self-care and self-compassion to create a more positive work-life balance.
Explore the key issues effecting wellbeing;
Identify the links between work-related stress and investing in wellbeing;
Understand how to promote workplace wellbeing for yourself and others. Book your place by searching ‘mindful wellbeing’ on QMUL CPD Booking System
This educational and interactive event with Dr Louise Younie, GP and Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Health Sciences Education, will explore themes including physical, emotional and social symptoms and managing the menopause with holistic or medical options, and a personal narrative on surgical menopause as part of cancer treatment. This event is aimed at members of Queen Mary staff who are experiencing or will experience the menopause, and there will be an opportunities throughout the session for attendees to ask questions openly or anonymously.
On 8 March 2021, Women in Innovation are holding a one-day online conference of ‘workshops, inspirational speakers and groundbreaking ideas.’
The event ‘aims to highlight the many inspirational female role models working within the UK, support the next generation of female innovators through workshops and expert advice sessions, and strengthen the UK as a world leader in innovation and gender inclusion.’
Women in Innovation programme ’empowers pioneering female entrepreneurs to develop innovations, through a women-only competition with awards offering innovation grant funding and a tailored programme of mentoring and business support.’ It is part of Innovate UK, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Women in Science and Engineering at Queen Mary University of London (WISE@QMUL) is a student group for discussion of female participation in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine).
WISE@QMUL have announced a free two-day online conference to celebrate International Women’s Day 2021.
On 25th-26th March WISE@QMUL will host inspiring speakers to discuss two main themes:
Ethnic minority women in STEMM.
Future directions and priorities for women in STEMM.
WISE@QMUL writes, ‘This is a unique opportunity to celebrate women in the field of science and engineering who have had remarkable journeys and broken glass ceilings, whilst encouraging young female scientists to pursue careers in STEMM.’
Registration for the WISE@QMUL International Women’s Day 2021 Virtual Conference is open.
The UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11 February) aims to recognise the critical role women and girls play in science and technology communities.
Queen Mary marked this day by highlighting some of our students, staff and alumni from across the Faculty of Science and Engineering who are making a difference to their fields and helping to inspire the next generation of girls and women into STEM careers.
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 to science technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine. This online event will allow complete novices and experienced editors to work together to edit this resource by improving existing articles or creating new ones.
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