We are recruiting participants to take part in interviews and small group discussions exploring the experience of research fellows and postgraduate students in ECS. We are particularly interested in the experience of female students and RFs who have been in …
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Our guest blogger is Devasena Prasad. She is s a researcher in the software sustainability group. She has been working closely with Codefirst. Here is her post: Code First:Girls is a not-for-profit organisation and is run by Entrepreneur First Community …
A couple of weeks ago i arranged for the computing and maths female students at Barton Peveril College. I was at a school on that day so they went with their teacher and had the opportunity to watch a movie …
Our first guest blog post will be from Devasena Prasad. She is a researcher with the Software Sustainability group but has been involved in an initiative called ‘Code First’. Code First is an initiative which aims to teach women who …
On the 10th September I was lucky enough to go on a training course titled: âImportance of STEM to economic growthâ. It was an interesting day with very engaging speakers. It made me more motivated to focus on the bigger …
I volunteered to help the University with its âYour Lifeâ campaign pledge. This is a government initiative to increase the numbers of young people going into STEM subjects. As part of this campaign I attended the working group round table discussion. …
So this week I had a meeting with Yvonne and Gill. Yvonne is a Research Fellow and Gill is our marketing officer. We met to discuss the ECS prospectus and how we can demonstrate that we are diverse department. In …
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I was lucky enough to be invited to JPMorgan to deliver a talk about my PhD topic (from many years ago!) on how to get more women into computing. I compared the data from my PhD to some current data. …
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