Latest Past Events

How we got here: Women in Computing at Heriot-Watt University

1.82 Earl Mountbatten Building Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

This year marked a historic occasion in the Computer Science department at Heriot-Watt University: the number of our female professors doubled from two (Ruth Aylett and Fairouz Kamareddine) to four with the promotion of Verena Rieser and Helen Hastie.  Join us as these four professors discuss how they ended up in computing at Heriot-Watt: the education and career choices […]

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Celebrating Cake & Craft in STEM

Department of Biology, University of York, UK Wentworth Way, York

A meeting of like-minded individuals applying their STEM talents to the art of baking and crafts. Bring science themed cupcakes and mathematical meringues to share, and spend an hour knitting a numbat, painting a peptostreptococcus, quilting a quaternary arch, or borrow a crochet hook and start your own amigurumi STEM role model library or coral reef. Alternatively, just […]

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WiSET Mosaic Unveiling

LT1, Level B, South Academic Block, Southampton General Hospital Southampton General Hospital, Southampton

The University of Southampton Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WiSET) group are unveiling a mosaic made up of hundreds of selfies of women from across the university. The aim of the mosaic is to increase the visual representation of women within the university whilst celebrating their achievements. The mosaic is located at the Southampton […]

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