Latest WISE Blogs

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 ...

Kamini Edgley, Director of Engineering and Asset Management at WISE Strategic Partners, Network Rail. Even from a very early age, growing up in Mauritius I’ve always loved problem solving and inherently that’s what Engineers do, they continuously improve and provide better solutions to the world. So, naturally, this led me ...

Did you know that today is #INWED20? Today is about recognising the women that contribute to our amazing workforce here at Northern Gas Networks (NGN) to help shape our business and the communities that they serve, day in and day out. Our female workforce are vital in how NGN can #ShapeTheWorld ...

Gisela Rossi from the WISE Young Professionals’ Board discusses her volunteer role as a coding mentor to children and interviews Isabella, one of the girls she mentors. In 2016 I started to volunteer as a coding mentor at CoderDojo Ham. CoderDojo is a global volunteer-led organization. In their own words: “The CoderDojo ...

This year marks a massive milestone in the continuing effort to get more women into STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths). Government data shows that there are now more than one million women working in core STEM occupations – a goal that Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) campaign has ...