Past Events

Moving from diversity to inclusion by Dawn Bonfield MBE

Dawn Bonfield, MBE
Founder and director of Towards Vision. She was former president and chief executive of the Women's Engineering Society (WES).

This year's WES Annual Conference is all about enriching careers through connection and planning. We will explore ways for taking charge of your career and planning for the future, and empowering yourself and others.

The WES Annual Conference

In 2017, the Women and Work All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) will focus on the Government's industrial strategy, and making it work for women. The industrial strategy identified investment in science, research and innovation as a key driver for growth across the UK. Yet women are under-represented in the STEM sector and those who work in STEM fields face constant bias against them.

Over the course of Professor Dame Julia Slingo’s career, climate science has undergone numerous transformations, helping us to observe, understand, simulate and predict how the climate system behaves.

Analytical? Innovative? Logical? Forward thinking?

As part of the new Inspirational Women in Engineering talk series, we have Raia Hadsell from DeepMind coming to speak about her work. The talk is open to university students and staff of all genders, and will be followed by an interdepartmental Women in Engineering/women@CL social with drinks and canapes. This talk is closed to media, please bring university identification.

Join Dr Alison Parken, Senior Research Fellow from Cardiff Business School, and members of the University’s Equal Pay Review Group in discussing issues around equal pay and the gender pay gap at Cambridge.

How can it be that so many clever, competent and capable people can feel that they are just one step away from being exposed as a complete fraud?