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 Scotland Response to 'A Human Rights Bill for Scotland' Consultation

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. Taking a holistic approach,…
Research Survey: Employers' perspectives on inclusivity in STEM

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 involved in our mission to support gender…
Research Survey: Women's lived experiences of the Scottish STEM industries

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 how included women feel within the STEM industries. There…
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…
Womens Organisation Logos

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 that puts the experiences of…
International Womens Day 2023: Digital Inclusion for Gender Equality

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. Digital inclusion is vital for a number of reasons, it is…
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…
Reflections on Data Summit 2022

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 tickets kindly provided by Equate Scotland. Other society members and I arrived…