WISE Member Blog

Sponsored by Airbus For our Outreach and Engagement Award, judges are looking for exceptional outreach and engagement projects, programmes and campaigns which can show that they have inspired and enthused girls about STEM, especially those who would not previously have been interested. It is for organisations who can prove that ...

Sponsored by The Royal Air Force Over 1.5 million technicians are employed in the UK working across engineering, science, health and technology. They are integral to overcoming some of the great challenges of the coming years and decades, and yet many career paths are not visible to girls. We want ...

Sponsored by Rolls-Royce PLC This award recognises women who have reached a leadership role within a STEM role. It identifies new faces who could be role models to show women at earlier stages of their career what they can achieve in STEM. The finalists will prove inspiring to others and ...

Sponsored by BAM Nuttall This award celebrates young women in the earlier stages of their STEM careers who have been identified as potential stars in their chosen professions. Aimed at nominees between the ages of 25-35 (on the date of the WISE Awards), this award asks finalists how they plan ...

Sponsored by Goldman Sachs The number of girls taking Computer Science is low, only one in eight of those gaining Computing A Level in 2018 were girls. On this trajectory, we won’t reach gender parity in A-Level Computing for over eighty years. We don’t think that’s soon enough. At WISE, ...

WISE 2018 Woman in Industry Award finalist, Emma Taylor, talks about the benefits of a ‘lattice career’. My name is Emma Taylor, and I have a ‘lattice’ career. Before last year, I just thought I had a patchwork of roles, across three sectors and covering engineering/science/whatever. My 30-year working life has ...

Sarah Burnett, Vice President at Everest Group, Computer Weekly top 30 influential women in IT, chair of BCS Women and founder of WISE members, BCSWomen AI Accelerator In March this year, I launched the new Artificial Intelligence (AI) Accelerator for WISE members, BCSWomen to make AI more relevant to women and encourage ...

Recognising that the work that I do is helping to ensure the safety and security of the country and its armed forces is a humbling and occasionally frightening thought A year ago today (as I’m writing this), I started my first real job after graduating from a Natural Sciences degree ...

If you’re an engineer, you have the ability to influence your child’s career choice, and with support from your work colleagues, your impact on future engineers has the potential to sky rocket. Parents are the first and most important role models for their children. With our commitment to support the ...