News from the UKRC
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Erica Williams
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Services for Businesses & Organisations Lead Consultant
The UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (UKRC) is the government’s lead organisation dedicated to increasing the numbers of women working in these industries. With a new and exciting opportunity available, we are looking for an inspired and committed individual to join the team. If you are interested in work that’s varied, challenging and about making an impact on society – then this role could be for you. The role of the lead consultant is to - • Support the Assistant Director of Services for Businesses & Organisations to develop, deliver and monitor the effectiveness of the Services for Businesses & Organisations Strategy. • Manage the Employer consultants to ensure a quality service provision in relation to delivery of customer needs. • Provide advice and support directly to SET employers in industry and academia in relation to gender equality advice, training and consultancy on organisational and culture change and best practice in recruitment, retention and progression. Also provide advice and support to SET influencers and intermediaries. http://www.ukrc4setwomen.org/html/services-for-women/getting-a-job/vacancies/?vacancy_id=314 News International Journal of Gender and SET launched The UKRC are pleased to announce that the first issue of the new online journal: The International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology (IJGST) is now available. This journal is the product of a partnership between the UKRC and the Open University. It has an editorial board made up of some of the most well known and respected experts on gender and SET from across the world. Its authors come from a variety of disciplines and a variety of countries. You can get free access to this journal at the website: http://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset Equal Pay for Women in SET The 30th October is Equal Pay Day, a day of action lead by the Fawcett Society to draw attention to the fact that on average women’s full time mean hourly pay is 17.1% less than men’s. The 30th of October symbolically marks the last pay cheque that women receive in a year, since compared with men they work on average for about two months a year without pay. The UKRC supports this day of action since there is also a gap between women’s and men’s pay in SET occupations, and we encourage women in SET and SET organisations to support the Fawcett day of action. http://www.ukrc4setwomen.org/html/about-ukrc/influencing-policy/Equal-Pay-for-Women-in-SET UKRC awards Grants During September UKRC was pleased to award a total of over £86,000 to 10 groups – Women in Physics, Girl Geeks Dinners, FEST, WISE, Women in Mathematics, LeicestHERday Trust, Swansea Women’s Network, Jaguar Land Rover, Science Oxford Networks 4 Women and the Construction Youth Trust (Pink Ladies) South Wales. Applications ranged from supporting women in further education to joint networking events between the universities and local construction networks. Over 33 bids were received for a total of £300,000. UKRC Director chairs Judging Panel Annette Williams – UKRC’s Director will chair the ‘Best Collaboration’ category of the inaugural iawards. Judging will take place on November 5th and the winners will be announced on November 16th. Celebrating science and technology innovation in Britain, the awards will be judged by, amongst others, Lord Drayson and James Caan. Caroline Graham, with the help of UKRC, returns to her Career After an 8 year break and with the support of the Scottish Resource Centre and UKRC, Caroline Graham has returned to her career in engineering. Caroline was working at the box office of her local theatre only 2 years ago and little suspected that she would ever be able to return to mechanical engineering research. Now working at Heriot-Watt University. Caroline said ‘It’s been a great year and I wouldn’t have been able to do it without the help of the Scottish and UK Resource Centres. I am back in engineering research and I plan to continue with lots of interesting projects. My life will never be the same again. Thank you’. UKRC was pleased to help Caroline with training, networking and finance. Athena Swan goes from Success to Success The 2009 round of Athena SWAN awards attracted an unprecedented number of applications and a record 35 awards were made. This is a clear indication that, even in these harsh economic times, universities and their departments want to attract and promote female talent. In excess of 25% eligible universities are now in possession of the renowned Charter – securing excellence in gender equality practice in higher education. Two bloggers await your comments: We have two blogs currently ongoing: Rosie Plummer - Trained scientist supporting research staff http://www.ukrc4setwomen.org/html/women-and-girls/getsetwomen-blog Carolin Crawford – mixing giant galaxies and outreach work http://www.ukrc4setwomen.org/html/projects-and-campaigns/astronomy-blog Events Career development workshop for women in Science, Engineering and Technology 31 Oct 2009 in Aberdeen http://www.ukrc4setwomen.org/html/news-and-events/events/?event_id=1371 MentorSET Workshop 4 Nov 2009 in London http://www.ukrc4setwomen.org/html/news-and-events/events/?event_id=1439 Korea-UK Female Scientists Forum 5 Nov 2009 in London http://www.ukrc4setwomen.org/html/news-and-events/events/?event_id=1406 Practising Gender Equality in Science 9 Nov 2009 in Manchester http://www.ukrc4setwomen.org/html/news-and-events/events/?event_id=1458 Peer Mentoring 4 Women in Science, Engineering and Technology 12 Nov 2009 in Oxford http://www.ukrc4setwomen.org/html/news-and-events/events/?event_id=1450 BAR (Bradford Action Research) Conference 19 to 20 Nov 2009 at Bradford College http://www.ukrc4setwomen.org/html/news-and-events/events/?event_id=981 Best regards UKRC Email from Bradford College is subject to a disclaimer, the full contents of which are available for viewing at the following link: http://www.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer.htm _______________________________________________ Educators mailing list To unsubscribe https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators |
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