By Sabrina Castiglione, WYPB Chair & Chief Financial Officer at Tessian January 2019 January has swung round again, and with it another year, another opportunity, and a new era for the WISE Young Professionals’ Board. So in the spirit of Janus, let’s take a quick look-back on 2018, and a ...

The WISE Young Professionals’ Board have scanned the market for the best STEM Gifts available in 2018. If you want to encourage an interest in science here are some gift ideas for anyone aged 3 – 14, particularly daughters, grand-daughters, nieces, or any other young women. Tech Will Save US | Build your ...

by Nadia Earl, WISE Young Professionals’ Board Member It’s interesting to me how the paths we take can seem normal to us. It wasn’t until I began my career at a large pharmaceutical company, fresh out of university, that I realised some of the barriers young women face when looking for ...

by Lauren Gracey, WISE Young Professionals’ Board Member Whilst it is important to remember that Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) should always be the last consideration in methods to reduce workplace risk, it should not be underestimated how important these personal items are. The Health and Safety Executive are still reporting ...

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 ...