By Sabrina Castiglione, Chief of Staff at Tessian and WISE Young Women’s Board member. I moved into the technology industry about two years ago; as someone who’d always had a strong STEM streak and spent time in the science and maths areas (and been – to say the least – not thrilled, but ...

Gender pay gap reporting has been a catalyst for conversations within organisations and beyond about the participation of women in business. When WISE looked at the published data for our corporate members, we found huge variation. Companies have not reported consistently, some report in different entities and although the reports ...

By Sabrina Castiglione, Chief of Staff at Tessian and WISE Young Women’s Board member. Sabrina (pictured centre) at the WISE Conference 2018 in Manchester. June 5th-7th saw the Information Security industry descend on London Olympia for InfoSec Europe 2018. The second annual Women in Cybersecurity breakfast saw the beautiful Pillar ...

I’m an Advanced Practitioner Healthcare Scientist in Histopathology at University Hospital Southampton (UHS) and in 2012, I became one of the participants in a pilot scheme for scientist reporting in histopathology, run by the Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) and the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS). Five years later, I ...

As far back as I can remember, I have been fascinated by science. In particular, I find the human body incredible: how such an intricate and complicated series of bio systems work together as a masterpiece. At school, I found that Biology came naturally to me so at university I ...

The WISE 2018 Annual Conference hosted individuals and supporting companies from across the UK. The theme of the conference this year was ‘Innovation’. Wednesday 9th May 2018 started as a bright, sunny morning in Manchester and saw hundreds of ‘STEMinists’ and WISE supporters descend on The Lowry to celebrate, network, learn ...

Having recently returned from maternity leave, the WISE CSO Fellowship came at a perfect time in my career. Many people experience concerns when returning from an extended period of leave and I was no exception. Due to a major restructure in my department, I returned to a more senior role, ...

In May 2016, I was at home on maternity leave after having my third child. I was doing some work on International Women’s Day to keep in touch and my line manager forwarded me an advert for the CSO WISE Fellowship. I was interested straight away. I have been working ...

When I tell people I’m an engineer, I often get a funny look and you can see the person’s facial expression changing as they register I’ve said I’m an engineer, but I’m a woman. But the thing is, I’m certainly not the first woman in engineering and definitely won’t be ...