Student Champion Development Day

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 champions from different universities to meet and share their…
Conference review

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 conference was allyship. For too long, advocacy…
Supporting Ukrainian women into tech role

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, The Royal Bank of Scotland (Natwest),…
Equate ConStructEd 2023 group photo

“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 students from a mix of 8 different colleges and universities who…
Rethinking Resilience

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 for 3 points to lead the workshop on: Understand the context you are studying and working…
women students on construction site

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 all for your ongoing support. We have continued to work with students, women professionals, women…

Chilly Classrooms – No we’re not talking about energy bills

How can I get women to speak up in my class?   How can I create an inclusive training environment?   How can I stop feeling like an imposter at uni?   I was asked these three questions from three different people on three separate…
Reflections from Equate's Director

Signing Off: Reflections from Equate’s Director July 2022

Well, the time has come to sign off as Director of Equate Scotland. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to lead Equate Scotland through the past two years. The wonderful Equate team have time and again responded to challenges and risen…
STEM through an Intersectional Lens Conference

Reflecting on Equate’s Conference

'If there's no seat at the table, build your own table.'   We’re taking some time to reflect back on our ‘STEM through an Intersectional Lens’ Conference which took place on June 21-23. We were blown away by the quality of our…
ConStructEd group photo

“Good, Challenging, Experience of a Lifetime” Equate ConStructEd 2022

Equate ConStructEd 2022 - “Good, challenging, experience of a lifetime” (ConStructEd participant)  The Equate ConStructEd programme has now finished its fifth edition and continues to go from strength to strength. This year we were…
Reflections from Equate's Director

Reflections from Equate’s Director – June 2022

Reflecting on our 3-day online conference on Intersectionality, I want to first of all thank everyone who attended. And to also, prompt the question about those who were missing. Examining using an intersectional lens, as to why this topic is…

Insights from Equate’s Director – May 2022

Behave as though your Gran is watching... I’ve been struck by the number of people I have talked to recently who have been reflecting on the Covid lockdowns and reprioritising what is important in their lives. The simple pleasures of friends,…