Northern Ireland born astrophysicist Rosemary Coogan has been named as one of just five new European Space Agency career astronauts selected from a field of 22,500 applicants. The new class of 17 astronaut candidates, who will work on missions to the International Space Station and beyond, includes 5 career astronauts, [...]
We are currently running three pilot programmes to help encourage young people in Northern Ireland into STEM careers - our most experimental (and challenging!) pilot is now at its halfway point so we wanted to let you know how we are getting on. It's a one-year project looking at [...]
Cubis Systems are manufacturers of underground systems for infrastructure, the organisation currently employs over 650 staff at several sites globally with their headquarters based in Lurgan. Cubis are currently bronze accredited and striving towards silver accreditation with Diversity Mark in a bid to transform attitudes and culture within their organisation [...]
Many of Northern Ireland’s most prominent and inspirational female business leaders came together on Thursday 10th November for the 2022 Women in Business Voices of Leadership Conference. Hosted by BBC NI’s Clodagh Rice at the Galgorm Resort, this year’s leadership event featured keynote speakers Jayne Brady, head of Northern Ireland [...]
Women in Business is collaborating with AwakenHub as part of their shared vision to create greater gender parity for women founders and investors across the island of Ireland. September’s Women Angel Insights report from Beauhurst and the UK Business Angels Association revealed that, of the more than 5,000 women making [...]
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) CEO Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser has been awarded the prestigious Croonian Medal by the Royal Society. The Croonian Medal and Lecture is given by invitation and is the society’s flagship biological prize. The award is in recognition of Professor Leyser’s central role in two of [...]
Digital Media trainee Iara Silver has been named a Rising Star at the Springvale Learning Awards Ceremony which was held recently at the newly restored St. Comghall's Hall in Belfast.. Iara, who has completed her Level 1 in Digital Media was presented with her award by Rhona McAuley from [...]
Pulsar is sponsoring the STEM Village at the Northern Ireland International Airshow this year, where visitors can enjoy a range of science, technology, engineering and mathematics themed displays and exhibitors. The announcement comes as the NI International Air Show makes a welcome return to Portrush on September 10th and 11th [...]
The DfE Women in STEM Steering Group is delighted to welcome Eileen Montgomery on to the group as part of her role as Innovation City Belfast's new Digital Innovation Commissioner. Eileen takes up the role with ICB following an almost three-decade career as a Senior Leader at some of the world’s [...]
Economy Minister Gordon Lyons is encouraging women and girls from disadvantaged backgrounds to apply for a new £15,000 bursary to support engineering studies. Eight bursaries of £15,000 each are available to eligible women and girls to study engineering or related subjects at higher education institutions (FE colleges and universities) in [...]
A new collaborative initiative which aims to empower future female leaders in education, was launched at an event in Danske Bank’s Belfast headquarters attended by schools, business people and local leaders. The SistersIN Leadership Programme has been developed specifically to help sixth form girls build their confidence and broaden their [...]
A new bank note celebrates some of the amazing things women from Northern Ireland have achieved, including Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s iconic 1967 discovery of pulsars – spherical, compact objects that are about the size of a large city but contain more mass than the sun. Ulster Bank’s new polymer [...]