The President of the Royal Academy of Engineering Professor Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE has today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department for the Economy, formalising an agreement between the organisations to work together to deliver an engineering talent programme in Northern Ireland. The agreement was signed at [...]
Innovate UK has partnered with the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) to explore the importance of role models in business. Through a new collaborative research project, they have revealed that despite the importance of role models in business, the majority of female business owners and business owners from ethnic minorities [...]
Limit Less is a campaign by the Institute of Physics to support young people to change the world and fulfil their potential by doing physics From the start of the Limit Less campaign, the IoP have recognised that they need to reach more younger people and their families to [...]
Do you dream of starting up your own business, changing the world and being your own boss? The Royal Academy of Engineering has just launched its Regional Talent Engines programme. This is a new offer which will provide a tailored programme of support to aspiring engineering and technology entrepreneurs in [...]
The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland is creating a new series of podcasts as part of their work on improving the representation of women in STEM subjects and careers. The series of short podcasts feature interviews with local women in interesting and rewarding STEM careers. Six are being recorded with [...]
A new programme to upskill engineers and promote engineering as a career choice with local schools in your area has been launched by Manufacturing NI. They would like engineering companies to identify 1-2 engineers in their company to take part as Engineering Ambassadors for their company. The engineer(s) would receive [...]
As part of the Northern Ireland Executive’s Economic Recovery Action Plan, a new Flexible Skills Fund, “Skill Up”, has been established by The Department for the Economy. The purpose of this funding is to help upskill and reskill individuals to meet the needs of the economy as we emerge from [...]
Applications are now OPEN for 2022 WISE Young Professionals' Board Members! The WISE Young Professionals’ Board (WYPB) is a group of exceptional young individuals aged 18-30 working in STEM at the start of their career. They support WISE members to be successful as they progress in the STEM workforce and [...]
The Women in Innovation Awards 2021/22 will support at least 20 women with a £50,000 grant and bespoke business support package. As the Awards open to applicants, winners from the 2020/21 cohort share their advice on how to deliver an application that delivers impact and enables your passion to shine [...]
Have you been inspired or impacted by Covid19 to embark on your female founder journey? SheGenerate is a new pilot from AwakenHub that might be just what you are looking for. Maybe you have already taken the plunge but following lockdown need some help in getting off the ground. Or [...]
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS, has been named as the 2021 winner of the world’s oldest scientific prize, the Royal Society’s prestigious Copley Medal. She is one of 26 medal and award winners, who are recognised for their exceptional research and outstanding contributions, from advancing quantum computing, revolutionising prenatal testing, [...]
By Dr Caroline O’Hare, Business Communications & Marketing at Exploristics. Originally posted at https://exploristics.com/keeping-women-in-stem/ There’s nothing to stop you from going into science. That’s what my teachers said, and I felt that there wasn’t. I had always been interested in science and had never felt that it was a male preserve. [...]