The 2019 WISE awards were held on Thursday the 7th of November at the prestigious 8 Northumberland Avenue, London. 8 Northumberland Avenue has become a WISE favourite and it is not the first time the venue has been selected by WISE. The evening was hosted by Fran Scott. Fran started ...

Sponsored by Intel The WISE One to Watch Award looks to identify young women who are working to change the image of girls and women in STEM. This award is designed to identify and share stories of young women who are passionate about STEM and what they do – not ...

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, ...

Sponsored by Lloyds Banking Group The Emerging Technology Award recognises initiatives that push the limits across technology, industry, or market where broad consensus agreements are not yet widely deployed or rolled out. In addition, this award specifically looks for inspirational use of new technologies. From LED light bulbs, to innovative ...

The WISE Man Award is for men who are agents of change – improving gender balance in their organisation and beyond. I was asked to interview this year’s finalists ahead of the WISE Awards Ceremony on the 7th of November.  As a member of the Young Professionals’ Board, I spend ...