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 ...

WISE is delighted to see that the popularity of core STEM subjects at A level is soaring, especially amongst girls. Computing A-level, for example, was taken by 48% more girls in 2018 than in 2017. Despite the overall number of A Level entries across all subjects falling, there has been ...

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 ...

As it launches the next phase of its People Like Me initiative, WISE is calling for more businesses to help it achieve its target of reaching 200,000 girls by 2020. The initiative aims to help girls understand the breadth of careers open to them in science, engineering, technology and maths ...

Research by WISE, released at their annual conference today, estimates that only 9% of patents filed in the UK are by women, compared to a global average of 30%. WISE is calling for a paradigm shift in attitudes to women in science, engineering and technology to ensure that women are ...

While welcoming the Government’s commitment to invest in science, research and innovation, the Leeds based WISE is calling for a paradigm shift in attitudes to women in science, engineering and technology. The call comes ahead of the WISE 2018 conference taking place on the Wednesday 9th May at Media City, Salford, which ...

WISE Chief Executive, Helen Wollaston FRSA, has presented the Royal Navy with their certificate of annual membership during the Year of Engineering. At the recent Royal Navy Engineering Challenge at HMS Sultan in Gosport, Commodore Andrew Cree accepted the certificate on behalf of the Royal Navy and celebrated the event ...

Wesleyan, the specialist financial services mutual, has celebrated International Women’s Day by announcing a five-year membership commitment to WISE. Wesleyan will work with WISE to ensure it retains a focus on the recruitment, retention and development of women. Caroline Hill, Wesleyan’s Director of HR & Corporate Services: “We want to ...