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: ‘Importance of STEM to economic growth’. 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 ‘Your Life‘ 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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