Events Calendar

This annual week-long celebration of apprenticeships will bring the whole apprenticeship community together to celebrate the impact of apprenticeships on individuals, employers and the economy.

Following the most successful National Apprenticeship Week ever in 2018 National Apprenticeship Week 2019 – which also coincides with National Careers Week – will look to involve more individuals, employers, partners and providers in activities that highlight the benefits apprenticeships bring to employers and the opportunities apprenticeships present to individuals.

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Join us as Dr Jess Wade, scientist and equality campaigner, visits The University of Manchester to give a public talk as part of our International Women’s Day celebrations

Dr Jess Wade, scientist on a mission to change perceptions of women in science, will speak on gender balance, as the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health marks International Women’s Day 2019.

Featured as one of Nature’s 10 people who mattered this year, Jess tirelessly campaigns for gender equality, whether through redressing Wikipedia’s under-representation of women in STEM subjects or using social media (@jesswade) to challenge the science gender gap, whilst working as a Research Associate at Imperial College London.

Jess will be discussing gender balance, why it is important and why we need to keep talking about equality.

British Science Week, run by the British Science Association is a ten-day celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths, featuring entertaining and engaging events and activities across the UK for people of all ages.

British Science Week provides a platform to stimulate and support teachers, STEM professionals, science communicators and the general public to produce and participate in STEM events and activities.

Anyone can organise an event or activity, and the British Science Association helps organisers plan by providing free activity and support resources. We welcome and support any type of organiser, from schools to community groups, from parents to large organisations. The resulting programme of events is a hugely varied and eclectic mix.

Take part in British Science Week

by organising an event…

Firstly, pledge to run an event so it will appear on the pledge map on our homepage.

Next, if you need help with your event you can find speakers, volunteers and advisors on Science Live. Science Live is the British Science Association’s event platform that enables people – whether as organisers, speakers, volunteers, or attendees – to connect with one another.

You can also promote your event for free on Science Live’s event listing and map.

…or by participating in pre-existing events

If you’d like to attend a local British Science Week event or see if they’re looking for volunteers, you can also find that on Science Live.

You can also participate in British Science Week by taking part in our Citizen Science project, or by taking part in our virtual race, through our interactive running app.

Any questions?

Check out our frequently asked questions.

Help us celebrate our first birthday on International Women’s Day

Believe you can make a difference Join businesses and individuals from across Cumbria to help achieve #balanceforbetter.

Special guest speakers include industry leaders and……. Nadia Nagamootoo! Founder and Director of Avenir Consulting, chartered psychologist and expert in organisational change, leadership and gender balance.

Tickets are £35 pp.

To book your place please contact events@nuclearinst.com or to apply for a free ‘Golden ticket’ please contact WiN Cumbria at: wincumbria@nuclearinst.com.

Celebrate International Women’s Day with us on Friday March 8th with an evening of fireside chats with phenomenal role models from Accenture Digital, the European Space Agency, Google, Guardian Newspaper and Leeds City Council.

We will get to hear the stories of how these role models got to where they are today. People often don’t start out where they end up, and the story of how they got there is fascinating.

Tickets are free and open to all (m/f/gn).
We’re so grateful to our event partners Accenture Digital and Leeds City Council for generously supporting this event.

Hear from:

• Ana Jakimovska. Director of Product Management, Guardian News & Media
• Milena Nikolic, Director of Software Engineering at Google
• Niamh McKenna, Managing Director at Accenture Health, UK
• Vinita Marwaha Madill, Space Operations Engineer at the European Space Agency (ESA)
• Eve Roodhouse, Chief Officer Economic Development at Leeds City Council
• Councillor Rebecca Charlwood, Executive Member for Health, Wellbeing and Adults at Leeds City Council. 

The speakers will be interviewed by Natasha Sayce-Zelem, Head of Technology for Digital Service at Sky and founder of Empowering Women with Tech.

Who are we?

Empowering Women with Tech (@empowerwithtech) is a Leeds based group that works to elevate, educate and empower more women into digital, tech and science careers. Annoyingly only 17% of the Tech workforce are female, with less than 10% are in leadership positions. With the significant role Digital/Technology plays in all of our lives, we need more of us to be active creators, not passive consumers and help shape what the tech products will look like in the future to ensure they meet all our needs.

Empowering Women with Tech run a Leeds based mentoring scheme and host events with inspirational role models working across all levels of science/digital/tech (from fashion bloggers to computer scientists/inventors to website entrepreneurs) to show just how varied and exciting the careers paths are, and to break the stigma that tech isn’t creative.

As part of the University of Chester’s Equality and Diversity festival, Young Women’s Trust and the University of Chester are proud to develop the Positive Action at Work? conference.

This is a collaborative project between Young Women’s Trust and the University of Chester to explore measures to address gender segregation in apprenticeships and beyond.

Following the launch of Equality at work: Positive Action in gender-segregated apprenticeships in 2018, this event seeks to discuss the research findings and impact of this on business and explore implications for employees, employers and sector bodies.

Positive Action is a chronically under-utilised as a tool to address gender segregation due to a misunderstanding of what it is and how it can be used. This is acting as a barrier to addressing the under-representation of women in key sectors within apprenticeships and beyond. This conference will discuss these barriers and more importantly, what can be done to address them.

This event is relevant for industry leaders, policymakers, employers and sector bodies who wish to create a more diverse and gender-balanced workplace.