Universities

As a University you will no doubt be thinking about how to encourage young women to apply for your engineering courses, how to support your own students, and how to attract, retain and promote the female staff to your Department. Here are some suggestions for you.
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Brunel University INWED17

Attracting New Students
  • Organise a Departmental Open Day and ensure your female role models are present
  • Invite local school students to look around your Department
  • Send out your current undergraduate or postgraduate students to local schools
  • Offer some work experience placements for local female students at your University
  • Organise a prestige lecture given by a female engineer and invite local students and their parents
  • Ensure that your undergraduate teaching is not gender biased towards males
  • Ensure your marketing material is attractive to women

Supporting your Current Students
  • Join the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) as an Education Partner.
  • Carry out a survey to ensure that your female students are happy and feel supported
  • Set up a WES Affiliated Student Group
  • Enrol your students for the WES Student Conference in November
  • Feature some of your female students in your University newsletter or on your University radio station

Supporting your Staff
  • Set up a mentoring scheme for your staff
  • Organise Unconscious Bias training for your staff
  • Appoint a Diversity and Inclusion Officer
  • Set Diversity Targets or Goals
  • Apply for an Athena Swan Award, or upgrade to the next level
  • Set up a Women's Networking Group to allow your female staff and students to support one another

Resource Packs including stickers can be requested via our office at inwed@wes.org.uk.
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Good luck with your planning, and do let us know what you are doing so we can feature the range of activities on our website via inwed@wes.org.uk and on Twitter using @INWED1919 #INWED18 #RaisingTheBar.. 
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