Reflecting on 2023’s Student Champion Development Day
At the beginning of November, we brought together our Equate Student Network to connect and plan events for the year ahead together. This is an important opportunity for our student […]
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Entries by Charlotte Dryburgh
Breaking Glass Ceilings and Building Bridges: A Review
By Dilraj Sokhi-Watson On the 15th of November 2023, for the first time post-pandemic, Equate Scotland hosted an in-person conference for early and mid-career STEM professionals. The theme of the […]
Supporting Ukrainian Women into Tech Roles
This year, Equate has been engaged in a project supporting Ukrainian refugees resettling in Scotland to enter or return to tech careers. The programme, delivered in partnership with Capital City Partnership, […]
Human Rights Consultation Response
Equate Scotland’s Response to the Scottish Government Consultation on ‘A Human Rights Bill for Scotland’ October 2023 Equate Scotland supports gender equality in the STEM and Built Environment sectors. […]
Employer Research: Inclusivity in STEM
Calling on STEM Employers! Equate Scotland is conducting research into inclusivity in Scotland’s STEM sectors and are looking for employers to participate. Organisations often ask us how they can get […]
Equate Research Survey – Women’s lived experiences of the Scottish STEM industry
Equate Scotland is conducting research into women’s and non-binary peoples’ lived experiences of the Scottish STEM sectors. We are hoping to use this research to get a baseline measurement of […]
“An Amazing Experience” Reflecting on Equate ConStructEd 2023
We were lucky to have our sixth incredible Equate ConStructEd this year, which took place from May 30 – June 1. We had 25 women engineering, construction, and built environment […]
Letter to SNP Leadership Candidates from Women’s Sector Organisations
As Scotland’s national women’s equality organisations, our ambition is for a Scotland in which substantive, intersectional gender equality is finally realised. To secure this, we need an approach to government […]
International Women’s Day 2023: Digital Inclusion for Gender Equality
This year we are celebrating International Women’s Day with the theme of DigitALL – digital inclusion for gender equality, a theme Equate was excited to see highlighted by the UN. […]
Rethinking Resilience
By Henrietta Cameron This month I was asked to run a new workshop on ‘How to be a Woman in STEM’. In lieu of ‘STEM for dummies’ book I went […]
Reflections on 2022
2022 has been a very busy year at Equate and we’d like to take some time to reflect back on some of our highlights of the year and thank you […]
Reflections on Attending the Data Summit 2022
By Ellen Simpson, Watt Women The Watt Women in STEM society was invited to attend the 2022 Data Summit on the theme of “Hope” on the 3rd of November with […]
