Latest WISE Blogs

A summary of 2020 and looking forward to a bright 2021 from the WISE Young Professionals Board. Looking back 2020 has been a year not many will forget however much we may try! And though it has felt both like 10minutes and a millennium, we’ve been lucky to be able ...

Written and compiled by WISE Young Professional Board Member, Alexandra Lawson.  If we rewind back to March, a large proportion of us started a new journey of working from home and have seen a whole new perspective brought to the word “multitasking”. Whether you have been battling with your other ...

By WISE Young Professional Board Member, Nadia Earl No, they are not the same. They are in fact quite different. Read on to understand how each of these might help you. What is coaching? The purpose of coaching in human resources development is to create a high-performance culture by enabling ...

How do you navigate your life and the world around you? A lot of us look to others, inspirational people, to help us answer this. Guides to help us navigate life. In the age of the internet, we could consider ourselves lucky because sharing stories, passions and advice is easier ...

WISE Young Professionals’ Board Member, Frida Nzaba discusses the importance of having diversity and inclusion in robotics and AI to ensure a more inclusive future for all. What is Diversity and Inclusion? Diversity is defined as ‘any traits and characteristics that make people unique’. For example, gender, race and ethnicity, ...

By WISE Young Professionals’ Board member, Abigail Seager, BBC, Senior Systems Engineer with writing and editorial help from Vicky Jewell. What do you want to be when you grow up? If you’d have asked me that when I was little – or even not so little and writing my university ...

Josiah O’Brien from the WISE Young Professionals’ Board looks at things we can all do to create workspaces where everyone feels welcome. In the small village of Bramley stands St. James’ Parish, containing, as most churches do, a graveyard. Among the non-descript tombstones lies one with the epitaph ‘A physicist who ...

Lauren McMullen, General Manager at WISE’s newest member SharkNinja, shares her career journey and a perspective on becoming a leading female of the premium home technology firm. Reflecting on my career, I believe an introduction to the technology and engineering industries both at school and through encouragement at home from ...

By Dr Jenny Cook, Equality Data Analyst, Brunel University London Universities are facing challenges in addressing pay gaps.  Data collected for the gender pay gap shows that as a sector we have higher than average pay gaps. ​ Evidence based actions are being published and implemented yet the pay gaps are not reducing ...