Past Events
G Hack presented a women in technology panel for Goldsmiths Thursday Club
WISE and G Hack Chair Nela Brown chaired a panel at Goldsmiths’ Thursday Club on 22 November 2012 about women in technology. WISE committee members went along with her to take part in the panel, which also featured representatives from Girl Geek Meetup, Flossie, G Hack, and Geek Gurl Diaries.
Click here for a photo of the G hack panel
2012, March 22 – WISE Lounge
Join us over food and drink to celebrate the very first WISE Lounge!
When: 22 March, 4-6 PM
Where: Room 3.20, Arts Two Building
2011, February 23 – Outing to Science Museum
A joint social event with the QM IEEE Student Branch to the Science Museum Late.
2011, February 16 – Coffee Hotspot
Join us in the SCR for a break. Get involved with the planning of WISE or just come hang out!
2011, February 10 – Recent Research on Work-Life Balance
Al James is a Lecturer in Economic Geography at Queen Mary University of London, with research interests in high tech regional development; gender, work and employment; and the rise of India’s new service economy. He is keen to extend the recent work-life balance project to a focus on stay-at-home Dads, ‘male returners’, and the ways in which the recession might potentially be fostering a more progressive shift in gendered divisions of care.
2010, December 1 – Coffee Hotspot
Join us in the SCR for a break. Get involved with the planning of WISE or just come hang out!
2010, November 17 – My Experience in Industry: Gender Roles and Gender Wars
Dr. Tijana Timotijevic is a biomedical and electronic engineer with a career spanning IT, telecommunications and most recently, biomedical engineering, in a variety of roles (researcher, engineer, manager) and sectors (corporate, public, non-for-profit).
2010, October 27 – Coffee Hotspot
Join us in the SCR for a break. Get involved with the planning of WISE or just come hang out!
2010, October 7 – Pub Quiz
Come test your general knowledge for a chance to win amazing prizes! Located in the SCR Bar in the Queen’s Building.
2010, May 19 – Prof Dame Julia Higgins
Dame Julia Higgins was the Principal of the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College and the Foreign Secretary and Vice President of the Royal Society until 2006/2007. Her list of honours and awards is extremely vast and involves positions such as National Gallery (as a trustee), membership of the Chemistry panel for the 2000 Research Assessment Exercise, as well as countless advisory panels and journal editorial boards. Her research explores boundaries between engineering and materials chemistry and mainly focuses on the study of polymeric mixtures through neutron scattering techniques.
2010, April 22 – Double Blind Peer Review?
Single-blind reviewing never reveals the reviewers’ identity to the authors, in order to protect reviewers from author retribution. All the conference, journal, and grant processes use at least single-blind reviewing. Some also use double-blind reviewing. In addition to not revealing reviewer identities, the authors’ identities are not known to the reviewers, for most of the double-blind reviewing process. The purpose of double-blind reviewing is to focus the evaluation process on the quality of the submission by reducing human biases with respect to the authors’ reputation, gender, and institution, by not revealing those details.
2010, March 23 – Fellowships for Women in Science and Engineering
In conjunction with the Research Fellowship Day on April 21, the talk focused on fellowships that encourage women to pursue academic careers in science and engineering. Dr. Ian Forristal discussed fellowship opportunities and Dr. Rachel Ashworth will also speak about her experiences as a BBSRC David Philips Fellow. Follow-up information can be found here.
2010, March 16 - EECS Research Open Day People’s Choice Award
WISE@QMUL sponsored a prize — the People’s Choice Award — to encourage more interaction and networking with the visitors and between the presenters at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science’s Research Open Day. Anybody attending the event could vote for its favorite posters and 72 votes were cast. Colombine Gardair received this award for her poster “Managing Audience Interaction”.
2010, March 4 – Industry Panel
A panel discussion of how to use your PhD in industry and how QM can help. Follow up information can be found here.
2009, December 4 – Pub Quiz
General knowledge pub quiz!
2009, November 19 – Prof Karen Steel
Prof. Karen Steel is the leader of the Genetics of Deafness research programme at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and has been recently elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.
2009, October 12 – Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell is current president of the Institute of Physics and has been voted one of the most inspirational living woman scientists of all time by an online poll run by the New Scientist.
2009, September 24 – Why So Few Female Chemists?
Sarah Dickinson is a science policy and diversity expert with the Royal Society of
Chemistry. She will be discussing recent research investigating why so many women
leave academic careers in the sciences.
2009, July 16 – Speed Research
The Speed Research event was a social event intended for PhD students and postdocs from Science and Engineering. The event was modelled after a mix of conference presentations, networking and speed dating. Around a dozen students and postdocs participated with all schools/departments represented with the exception of Physics and SEMS.
2009, June 26 – WISE@QMUL Launch
The launch of WISE@QMUL took place in the SCR Bar and was well attended by over 40 students and staff members from every school or department in Science and Engineering along with non-academic departments such as the Communications Office. Prof. Ursula Martin, Vice Principal, and Prof. Maurice Elphick, Director of Graduate Studies for Science and Engineering, gave talks regarding the importance of promoting women in Science and Engineering and Claire Sarell, co-founding member of WISE@QMUL, discussed future plans and aims for the society.
