Welcome to September's newsletter, where you'll find the latest news, events and jobs.
Read our president's blog here
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Find out here why you should be a WES member, if you're not already. It costs a pound a week and helps us to do our work to promote engineering and technology amongst women and girls.
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 Professor Isobel Pollock announced as new WES Patron
WES is delighted to announce that we have a new patron; a woman who has championed the importance of engineering for over 30 years.
Professor Isobel Pollock was appointed an OBE for services to mechanical engineering last year after a career that includes working in world-leading multi-nationals and making major contributions to the promotion of engineering. Read more.
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 Join now as a mentor, mentee or both!
WES's mentoring scheme for women in STEM, MentorSET, is now up and running again, and we are calling for Mentor and Mentees to register. If you are interested in one-to-one career mentoring, please visit the new look MentorSET website and complete a registration form. MentorSET is offering a number of other benefits to members in addition to one-to-one mentoring and these will include Boardroom Conversations, training opportunities, access to mentoring theory and research, and speed mentoring sessions, amongst other things. All MentorSET members must be members of WES, and there is also an annual fee for Mentees. Read more.
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Registration is open for the WES Prestige Lecture: Bridges Past, Present and Future
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 WES Student Conference Bursaries Available
Engineering Inspiration - the 7th annual WES student conference - brings together over 150 students and engineers to celebrate a shared passion in engineering and technology and
opens students' eyes to career possibilities.
WES issues around 25 bursary-funded places each year to students to attend the WES Student Conference. The bursary covers full conference fees and overnight bed & breakfast accommodation on Fri 20 November. It also provides a contribution of up to £50 towards travel. Women undergraduate students on mechanical engineering, manufacturing, design, chemical, computing, electronic engineering or similar courses can apply.
Deadline for applications 11 October |
 Women's Engineering Society AGM
The 96th Annual General Meeting of the Women's Engineering Society will take place on 10th October 2015 in Birmingham. After the AGM, Henrietta Heald will be giving a talk on WES Founder Rachel Parsons.
Find Out More
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 Report: Cracking the Code
Cracking the Code is a new report from KPMG, global business psychologist firm YSC and the 30% Club on gender intelligent approaches to developing corporate leaders. The findings dispel some of the common gender diversity myths in the workplace. The report highlights three key things that organisations could focus on to adopt a more gender intelligent approach to improving their talent pipeline health. Read more.
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 Three month fellowship at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST)
Are you a PhD student at a UK university in your final or penultimate year? Could you produce rigorous and accessible analysis of public policy issues in science and technology in order to inform parliamentary debate?
The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) is offering a three month fellowship to a PhD student from a UK university funded by the Nuffield Foundation in memory of its late Chairman, Lord Flowers of Queen's Gate.
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Magnificent Women Resource Sheets
 As part of the WES outreach activity ' Magnificent Women' we are looking to expand our list of the past and present magnificent women from engineering that we feature on our website and use in our schools activities. If there is somebody that you feel is missing from the list and you are willing to put together a resource sheet then please do let us know at magnificentwomen@wes.org.uk.
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National Research Network for Low Carbon Energy and Environment
Returning Fellowships
The NRN-LCEE wishes to fund up to five individual Returning Fellowships of £20,000 each for researchers returning after a minimum of 12 months away from their work for reasons of maternity leave/ paternity leave / adoption leave/ health reasons/ caring leave. These Fellowships can be requested by individuals employed by a Welsh HEI. Find out more
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NOMINATIONS OPEN!
The awards are a fantastic opportunity for you to have your organisation's commitment to skills recognised and to celebrate the achievements of your star performers. You can nominate your colleagues, your organisation, your training partner or even yourself. Find out more
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As part of our goal to get more girls into engineering, we've launched a new initiative - Sparxx. The aim of Sparxx is to provide news, events competitions, freebies and much more to girls who show an interest in CRESTA (Creativity, Engineering, Science, Technology and Art) by providing a targeted stream of communication to inspire girls to create the future they are capable of.
We are not planning to provide new content or any new activities, but instead to compile activities and information provided by yourself. If you would like to feature your CRESTA events, competetions, games or quizzes, please email relevant content to us with the subject line Website Content.
To sign up to the Sparxx monthly e-newsletter, please click here
For further details contact the Sparxx team or visit the website Here
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Volunteers needed, London!
Do you live in or around London? Would you like to get involved with an exciting new event WES is organising? The London cluster team are organising a WES event in London and we need some help. Please get in touch with Cath.
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 Pinkspiration
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A big thank you to Oliver Adams of Ricardo who raised money for WES! To celebrate their 100 year anniversary, Ricardo organised an 'around the world' rally with the an impressive display of vehicles they have worked on over their one hundred years of business. Read more about what they did, the vehicles and the maps here. |
 Career Detectives
Career Detectives is an innovative board game that introduces children to future career prospects in a fun and interactive manner without asserting any gender bias.
The use of Career Detectives in schools will allow children to develop a clear and insightful view of potential careers and broaden their horizons on the amazing possibilities available to them according to their interests and skills sets. For more information, click here |
Global Survey: How to Maximize the Impact of Women Networks
There is a lot of research focused on the company perspective of "How to Build an Employee Network", but hardly any work has been done looking at the membership experience: What to do to make sure that networks live up to members' expectations? How to ensure they feel fully engaged and excited to contribute? And what are the best ways to leverage the power a network can provide?
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 Talent 2030 National Engineering Competition for Girls |
MEMBER NEWS:
UCL becomes a WES Education Member
WES is delighted to welcome UCL as a WES Education Member. UCL has eleven academic departments undertaking research and training across a great range of disciplines on a global scale. The products, processes and students UCL produces change the world we live in. To find out more about engineering at UCL click here.
 We would also like to thank the Royal Academy of Engineering who have chosen to renew with WES again this year. It is only through the generosity of our supporters that we can continue our work to improve diversity in engineering. |
Professor Elena Rodriguez-Falcon blog
#ILookLikeAnLGBTEngineer
The recent #ILookLikeAnEngineer Twitter campaign, which I have subscribed to unreservedly and passionately has, however, triggered other helpful conversations. But when you delve deeper into the area of gender representation and equality, you also have to acknowledge the rest of the protected characteristics that fall under 'equality and diversity'. I will restrain from commenting on the appropriateness of this list, as I have come to learn of other very real areas of discrimination and/or inequality that occur in academia, Read more
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 NWED Sponsors
WES are delighted to welcome Cummins, Yorkshire Water and Prospects College of Advanced Technology as official NWED sponsors. With the generous sponsorship, we can continue to produce and distribute our fantastic NWED resource packs and develop more innovative ways to reach out to more young women across the UK, allowing us to change the face of engineering for years to come!
If you are interested in sponsoring NWED 2016, please click here or email
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 EnergyUnearthed
EnergyUnearthed is an International Festival programme of science and arts which celebrates Cumbria's unique position at the core of the biggest international challenge of our time: ENERGY ... generation, transmission, use, conservation.
EnergyUnearthed's purpose is to give the public access to an understanding of energy science in new and inspiring ways. We aim to inspire and energise our youth; to bring education and industry closer together; and to increase the potential for retention of talent, inward tourism, and inward business investment.
The programme is year-long, with events across the year leading up to a fun, intensive period of family friendly activities in the summer. The first event is aimed at educators and STEAM stakeholders on 13 October, Newton Rigg College, Penrith (Book now), followed by SwitchOn, a day of high energy talks at Energus in November.
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 The Future Leaders of Industry are ... Female
In an unprecedented result at the EDT Future Industry Leaders Awards, held at the Royal Society of Engineering last week, the winners of all the four prizes on offer were female, having completed stunning projects for major science and engineering employers.
Dr Gordon Mizner, Chief Executive of EDT, observes, "I hope that the success of these award winners shows that a momentum is being built which will bring a critical mass of women into industry to fill the very real skills gaps, particularly in science, technology, engineering and maths which are appearing as older generations of scientists and engineers approach retirement in vast numbers." Find out more
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Don't forget to forward our enewsletter to your friends and contacts, male or female, and help to inspire more young women to consider engineering and technology as a career.
With good wishes
the e-News team.
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Institute of Demolition Engineers Autumn Seminar
25/09/2015
See their programme of speakers and presentations
Find out more
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The James Watt Gala Dinner
02/10/2015
This gala dinner is being held to celebrate the anniversary of James Watt's idea to transform the steam engine
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Women Returner's Programme, Bristol
07/10/2015
A two day programme run by Skills4. 20% Discount for WES Members.
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Women's Engineering Society AGM
10/10/2015
The 96th WES AGM will take place in Birmingham and will be followed by Henrietta Heald giving a talk on WES founder Rachel Parsons.
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Advancing Women in Technology
15/10/2015
The everywoman Academy: Advancing Women in Technology will equip you with the skills you need to advance your career becoming competent and confident in your role.
Click here to received 20% off your ticket for WES Members
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Daphne Jackson Trust Research Conference
15/10/2015
This year's Conference will be held at the Wellcome Collection, London. Registration details will be available shortly.
Please email with any queries
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Power Management/ LED & Lighting/ Sensor Technologies
A FREE Motiv8 Forum. See location below for date and details.
Oxford
Manchester
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Diversity Careers Show
23/10/2015
London
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Graduate Engineer Show
28/10/2015
Derby Roundhouse
Featuring an employability zone.
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Future Female Engineers
2/11/2015
Warwick
A networking event for engineering students.
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Bridges: Past, Present and Future
04/11/2015
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Everywomen Academy
11/11/2015
The Everywomen Academy will equip you with the skills you need to advance in the workplace. Get 20% off here.
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WISE Awards and Conference
12/11/2015
The WISE Awards 2015 (see article) will be presented at the WISE Conference in London.
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WES Engineering Inspiration Student Conference
20-21/11/2015
Bringing together over 150 students and engineers to celebrate a shared passion in engineering and technology
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Young Woman Engineer Awards 2015
03/12/2015
IET's Young Woman Engineer Awards 2015 including the WES Prize will take place at Savoy Place, London.
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The Raising of the Costa Concordia
12/01/2016
Joint meeting with IMarEST and WES. ICE, RINA, IMechE and IStructE TBC. A FREE lecturer by Titan Salvage at Strathclyde University.
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Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering
University of the West of England, Bristol
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Lecturer, Automative
Engineering
University of the West of England, Bristol
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Lecturer/
Senior Lecturer, Engineering Management
University of the West of England, Bristol
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Hitachi Rail
Milton Keynes
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Hitachi Rail
Milton Keynes
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Hitachi Rail
Milton Keynes
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Charge
Endstone, Oxfordshire
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Dialog Semiconductor
Swindon
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Graduate Software Engineer
Northrop Grumman
Fareham
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Senior Forensic Engineer
Northrop Grumman
Cheltenham
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Technical Project & Programme Managers
Northrop Grumman
Cheltenham
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A Fantastic new opportunity for Engineering
Graduates
Altera
High Wycombe, Bucks
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Test Analyst
Northrop Grumman
Cheltenham
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