WES Blogs including the President's Blogs
From time to time, blogs by the WES President and WES members and supporters on their week or their views are added here. If you would like to contribute or make any suggestions, please email: info@wes.org.uk.
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Options Far Beyond Gender-Based Toys by Nausheen Basha and Carolina Escudero April 2018
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science – The importance of role models February 2018
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Lottie on Tour with Christine Brown, November 2017
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Q&A Kirsten Bodley Materials World Magazine, November 2017
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When and how should we promote engineering careers to young females? by Huw Jones of Gattaca PLC, September 2017
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A-Level Physics Results by Ann Watson, SEMTA CEO, August 2017
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Apprenticeships 4 England Equality, Dr Sarah Peers presentation at Diversity and Inclusion Conference on the 13th July 2017 in Coventry, West Midlands
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Not investing into female engineers would be a big economic mistake, Sarah Peers in ECNMY, 7 March 2017
- Lottie's week with Lizzie the Robot at Instron from the Lottie tour during Tomorrow's Engineers Week by Maeve Higham, November 2016
- Lottie's week with Kate from the Lottie tour during Tomorrow's Engineers Week by Kate Mactear, November 2016
- Lottie tour at the ODE office in Cairo from the Lottie Tour during Tomorrow's Engineers Week by Adriana Vargas, November 2016
- Lottie's week with Holly from the Lottie Tour during Tomorrow's Engineers Week by Holly Goodwin, November 2016
- Lottie's Week with Jo from the Lottie Tour during Tomorrow's Engineers Week by Jo Douglas, November 2016
- Progress on PPE for All by WES President Benita Mehra, September 2016
- WES Young Member's Board Meeting at Scottish Power by Khadejah Begum, September 2016
- Brexit and what it means to women engineers by Sarah Peers, WES VicePresident, July 2016
- A woman in welding by Claire Spillane, Westermans International, June 2016
- National Apprenticeship Week - Just a typical week by Jo Sharples, BAE Systems, March 2016
- The first month by WES President Benita Mehra, October 2015
Links to recent articles of interest are here:
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Let’s inspire more young women to fall in love with engineering, The Guardian, 22 June 2017
- Making flexible hours work in the infrastructure industry McGinley Support Services February 2017
- Trailblazers of diversity, Sally Horrocks, The Engineer, 29 April 2016
- Gender pay gap fuelled by perceptions of motherhood and the lack of women in tech, Independent, 15 February 2016
- The Need for Women in Engineering on the UK's leading Process Engineering hub
- Women in Engineering, Lantern Magazine Summer 2015 p 12
- Pushing Boundaries. Born to Engineer Video for NWED
- Bucking the Trend, The Engineer, June 2015
- Magnificent Women and NWED in Ingenia, June 2015
- Women in Engineering, Process Industry Informer May 2015
- Re-writing history to remember real-life unsung engineering and construction heroines, Womanthology 18 February 2015
- Published letter to The Times, 23 January 2015
- Passing the Maternity Test, The Engineer November 2014 (p.5)
- Getting Girls into Engineering: Lighting the Spark, November 2014 (appeared in Cast Metal and Die Casting Times, Oct/Nov 2014 p13)
- Women in Engineering, Are We Doing Enough? Enhance Issue 3, Nov 2014
- Women in the oil and gas industry, Female First, September 2014
- Breaking through the glass ceiling, Maintenance online July 2014
- Women in Engineering 8 page supplement, Birmingham Post, 26 June 2014
- Engineering a change in education, Centre for Education, Research and Practice, AQA
- Women in Engineering supplement, Media Planet, The Independent, 23 June 2014
- Girls Can't What? BBC News 23 June 2014
- Change of Gear, Drive to Recruit Women Engineers, The Daily Telegraph, 23 June 2014
- One for the History Books, i Newspaper, 23 June 2014
- National Day Aims to Boost Number of Female Engineers, The Telegraph, June 2014
- Engineering Women, AMPS Power 2014 Issue 2
- WW1: Women Engineers in the First World War, 16 June 2014 E&T Magazine
- More to be done on gender balance in the oil and gas sector, HR Magazine, 24 June 2014
- National Women in Engineering Day Launched, Whimfing 6 June 2014
- Changing the Mix, New Civil Engineer, 18 February 2014
- Driving Diverse Thought: March 2014, Womanthology
- Taking Steps for a Brighter Future, The Independent December 2013
- Women in STEM, MEDIAPLANET supplement, The Independent December 2013
- It's Time to Deliver, The Engineer 4 November 2013
- Women Engineers call for Better Careers Advice, The Engineer, 11 September 2013
- Which Woman Should Go on a Banknote Next, BBC, 24 June 2013
- The Unchanging Status of Women Engineers over the Past 90 Years, E&T Online 14 October 2013
Past President Dawn Bonfield's blogs are below:
- July 2015
- NWED Blog June 2015
- Tim Hunt: What can we learn?
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- November 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013