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2021 Amy Johnson Inspiration Award and Men As Allies Award |
WES is delighted to announce that we are seeking nominations for the Amy Johnson Inspiration Award and Men As Allies Award for 2021.
The Amy Johnson Inspiration Award honours an individual who is currently working in a non-engineering role who has made a truly remarkable achievement in furthering diversity within engineering and applied sciences. This award serves to recognise the efforts of an individual in inspiring more women to enter and/or remain in the engineering and technical professions. Click here to nominate or apply.
With men holding the majority of roles within engineering and applied sciences, it is crucial that they are involved in making the cultural changes needed to attract and retain women in these fields. The Men as Allies Award seeks to celebrate a male engineer, or other professional male working within the engineering, technical and applied science sectors, who has gone above the call of duty to support his female colleagues, and address the gender imbalance within engineering and applied sciences in general. Click here to nominate or apply.
The closing date for both awards is Monday 12 July 2021.
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INWED 2021 Website Launch |
We’re delighted to announce that INWED’s new website is live. Here’s a run down of all you need to know:
● You can add your events and activities using the form on the Activities page. Don’t worry if your event doesn’t immediately appear in the calendar, we’ve got a short internal approval process to ensure the page doesn’t get spammed.
● The form on the Resources page, under “About” will take you to a treasure trove packed full of INWED assets and tips, which we’ll be adding to further over the coming week.
We look forward to updating you with all our exciting plans to celebrate #INWED21 and our #EngineeringHeroes and to hearing about your celebrations too!
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‘Engineering Heroes’: WES presents a Virtual Celebration of International Women in Engineering Day 2021 (INWED)
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Wednesday 23 June 2021
Online: 12.00 noon – 2.30 pm (UK time)
Book your FREE place now at:
https://www.bigmarker.com/women-s-engineering-society/INWED
Be inspired by our female engineering heroes of the present, past – and future!
From the UK, the Women’s Engineering Society presents a virtual celebration of International Women in Engineering Day. Hear remarkable stories of engineering heroism from past and present and hear some top tips for how you too could become an engineering hero of the future.
Join us as we also announce the 2021 Top 50 Women in Engineering Awards, profiling the best, brightest and bravest women in engineering today: those who recognise a problem, then dare to be part of the solution, and who undertake everyday ‘heroics’ as much as emergency ones.
This event is FREE to attend but as a charity, WES welcomes voluntary donations to support our work. Please consider adding a small donation when you register.
We look forward to celebrating with you! For more information or queries, contact us at events@wes.org.uk
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Adapting to the New Norm - an online event with WES and COIB
23 June at 12.00 noon - 1.30 pm
Join us for this discussion of how women have dealt with the challenges of Covid-19 and how we empower future generations of women in construction and engineering.
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Royal Academy of Engineering INWED Event
What does inclusive leadership look like in 2021? Join Hayaatun Sillem, CEO of the Royal Academy on Engineering (CEO of the Academy) and special guests Aleida Rois, Senior Vice President Engineering at bp, and Loubna Bouarfa, Founder and CEO of Okra Technologies on 24 June for this critical conversation live on LinkedIn.
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Congratulations to WES Winners!
We are delighted to announce that four WES members have taken top honours at the WeAreTheCity Rising Stars 2021 Awards.
Congratulations to Dawn Childs, WES President (Rising Stars Champion), Emma Nicholson, WES Board Member (Infrastructure, Logistics & Transport), Kirsty McDermott (Energy & Utilities), and Alexandra Mather (Science & Engineering).
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Join WES today!
There has never been a better time to join WES and become part of the largest network of women engineers in the UK.
Our community is driven by the common goal of supporting women in engineering to fulfil their potential and supporting the engineering industry to be inclusive.
Joining is a fantastic opportunity to expand your network and make new friends. Membership benefits include access to the Membership Area of our website, discounted conference and event rates, participation opportunities and more.
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Sign up for #WESLottieTour 2021!
The WES Early Careers Board is organising its sixth #WESLottieTour this year for Tomorrow's Engineers Week 2021, to show how varied and exciting it is to work in engineering! The Lottie Tour has grown so much since it was launched in 2016 from only 10 volunteers to an amazing 170 in 2019, but we’d love this number to grow even more this year.
We’re proud to announce the 2021 #WESLottieTour is being sponsored by GKN Automotive for the second year in a row.
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Sign up for the #WESLottie Tour by clicking and filling out the form here. Please use the form if you either would like to borrow a Lottie Doll from WES or if you already have your own as we’d love to capture the full number of volunteers taking part! Any questions, please get in contact with Vera and Kate on the ECB: ymb@wes.org.uk
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WES and Women in STEM Campaign
The Women in STEM campaign by Media Planet will be launching on 24 June and distributed in the New Scientist magazine and online here. WES will be featuring in an article led by Elizabeth Donnelly to share our thoughts behind the theme for INWED this year and discuss why society needs 'Engineering Heroes' more than ever. |
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WES Midland Cluster
Powering up with Dr Nikita Hari
3 June 2021, 7pm
In her talk, Dr Hari will share her journey and how she is contributing to innovation of engineering education and effectively educating youngsters to build and blow-up things. To find out more click here.
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Tired Engineer In Training |
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Tired Engineer in Training, Eleanor Yong, shares the drawings that she started to help break up the monotony of studying/revising.
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The Big Engineering Conversation |
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EngineeringUK is inviting the engineering community to take part in the Big Engineering Conversation - a new campaign to encourage discussion and realise the ambition to increase the diversity and number of young people entering engineering.
A series of Talking Points released over the next three months will aim to get employers, individual engineers, professional engineering Institutions, delivery organisations and anyone else connected to the engineering sector talking and sharing their expertise and insight to propel the change needed to work together and grow the sectors’ collective impact.
Follow EngineeringUK on Twitter and LinkedIn to share insights, experience and questions using the #BigEngConversation or have a look here for more information.
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STEM Returners need your help!
STEM Returners are on a mission to make it easier for highly qualified and experienced STEM professionals to return to industry after a career break.
Talented people on career breaks often get left behind by flawed recruitment processes - there are hidden barriers when attempting to return to work, and this needs to change. This is why STEM Returners are launching an annual piece of research - The STEM Returners Index - to further understand these barriers and campaign for change.
Please click this link to complete a short survey. It will take you no longer than 10 minutes to complete and your responses will be completely anonymous.
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RAEng Awards now open
The Bhattacharyya Award is a new annual award to celebrate collaboration between academia and industry. This prize of £25,000 will be awarded to the team who best show how industry and universities can work together.
Award value: £25,000
Deadline: 31 May 2021
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Amazon Future Engineer Bursary
The Amazon Future Engineer Bursary is a newly launched national bursary programme aimed at supporting women A-level and BTEC/OCR students from low-income households who wish to study computer science or related engineering courses at UK universities. These bursaries aim to help address underrepresentation of women in engineering and technology and accelerate the rate of progress.
Award value: up to £20,000
Deadline: 14 June 2021
Contact: veronica.frincu@raeng.org.uk
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Diversity and Inclusion at Smart Works and Vattenfall
June 2 2021, 5.30pm
Presented by Jan Iceton, Chair of the Board of Trustees for Smart Works, Greater Manchester and Anca Velicu, Senior Project Manager, Offshore Wind and Co-Chair UK Diverse Energy Network of Vattenfall, this virtual event will give an insight into the development and implementation of D&I strategies at both organisations.
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Allianz Engineer Surveyor Apprenticeship
Allianz Engineer Surveyor Apprenticeship are opening up spaces for their apprenticeship. Over two years, the apprenticeship gives on-the-job training and experience as well as support through the qualifications required to become an Engineer Surveyor. For more information click here.
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WES is grateful for the support, in the form of partnership, sponsorship, collaborations, in-kind donations and funding for recent projects from many organisations including those listed below.
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Michael Faraday House, Six Hills Way
Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG1 2AY
Phone: 01438 765506
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