Female healthcare scientists are invited to apply for NHS England’s prestigious leadership development scheme, aimed at mid-career healthcare scientists to develop leaders and increase their impact within their Trusts and beyond. Led by NHS England’s Chief Scientific Officer, the CSOWISE Healthcare Science Leadership Development Programme for NHS England scheme provides ...

New ‘Amazon Amplify’ programme includes a series of initiatives, adding to existing broader company programmes Last year, Amazon partnered with WISE (the campaign for gender balance in science, technology & engineering) to conduct research and help build a roadmap for companies across the UK to improve gender diversity, with the findings helping inform ...

In 2018, the WISE Young Professionals’ Board ran an Essay Competition for 10-15 year olds to write 500 words on an inspirational woman, past or present, in Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths. The WYPB liaised with a number of schools and we received a fantastic number of applications in both ...

Girls need to understand the difference a STEM career can have on society and see role models WISE launches online career resource to help it reach 200,000 girls Shortage of 173,400 STEM workers across the UK at a cost of £1.5bn per year As WISE, the campaign to improve gender ...

2018 over 900,000 women in core STEM occupations 200,000 women with STEM qualifications will reach working age within the next 2 years Critical mass of 30% female employment within reach in several core STEM job roles Employers need to accelerate the drive to reach target of 1 million women in ...

Sir Gerry Berragan, Chief Executive of the Institute for Apprenticeships today launched the first sector-specific apprenticeship for the metals recycling industry. The Metal Recycling General Operative (MRGO) is a level 2 apprenticeship open to employees of any age and is a 12-18-month assessment covering a number of industry areas that reflect the complexities ...

More than 20 physics undergraduates from 14 universities across the UK attended our Physics Undergraduate Conference on 8 October to explore the exciting world of physics.  Imogen Morland (Heriot-Watt University) won the award for Best Physics post associated with WISE – presented by WISE Young Women’s Board Member, Sabrina Castiglione. ...

Following a successful second year, NHS England has announced four new candidates for the 2018 Chief Scientific Officer’s (CSO) WISE Fellowship starting in September. The programme is launched each year on International Woman’s Day and this year attracted over 50 applications from female healthcare scientists who will act as role models to ...

The Royal Academy of Engineering launched a new season of This is Engineering films on Monday 10 September. These showcase the experiences of seven more young engineers from a variety of engineering jobs and educational pathways and demonstrate to young people from all backgrounds that they can follow what they ...