Interconnect Student Award Winner 2018

Yvonne Anderson, 3rd year chemistry student at the University of Edinburgh, was awarded with the Interconnect Student Award 2018 at our annual conference on 6th March. Here she talks about her experience attending the conference and the public…

I feel EMPOWERED!

STEM Opportunities in Food and Drink

Getting Back to Business

FDM Group, an international professional services company with a focus on IT, believes that returners are an untapped talent pool which can help employers to fill their digital skills gap. With this in mind the group established its Getting…

My Journey to Engineering with Equate Scotland

Heather Bruce, 3rd Year Mechanical Engineering student, had the opportunity to speak at a recent national conference on future skills with Equate Scotland's Director. Read her full speech about her summer placement with CareerWise and why opportunities…
INFERIOR

Why I wrote Inferior

Angela Saini is an award-winning British science journalist and broadcaster. She regularly presents programmes on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service, and her writing has appeared in New Scientist, the Guardian, among others. Her blog tells us…
I'm pretty

I’m Pretty Curious – Advertising STEM

In 2017, it could be argued that women and feminism have succeeded in their decades long bid for gender equality across most fields. However it would be incorrect to think the job is done. In the UK, women account for roughly 13% of…

SSE: Making Inclusion and diversity a priority

Can you briefly talk about SSE and what your role is there? SSE is one of the UK’s leading energy companies, our core purpose is to provide the energy people need in a reliable and sustainable way. We currently have 500 trainees progressing…