Inspiring Women In STEM
To celebrate International Women's Day, the University of Nottingham are hosting "Inspiring Women in STEM: #BreakTheBias", a virtual talk aimed at current and prospective students, alumni, staff and the wider community. The talk will explore the International Women's Day 2022 campaign theme: #BreakTheBias. We will bring together a panel of female STEM graduates, to look at how we can challenge stereotypes and discrimination and forge women's equality in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
Event details: Tuesday 8 March, 18:00-19:30 GMT, via Microsoft Teams
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Alumni Speakers
Sakshi Bansal - Work and Organisational Psychology MSc, 2019
Founder of Project LEAP
Sakshi is a UNESCO Kindness Leader. She is the founder of Project LEAP, a social service project that she established at the age of 17 in India. Today, Sakshi leads three key regions: India, Australia and Africa for the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) mission which is a part of an acceleration program for the SDGs globally. As an Occupational Psychologist and published author, she also facilitates change management sessions globally and is creating a movement for Humanitarian Psychology based on her work on Kindness in organisations and ESG models. She also advises multiple AI-Based start-ups after three years of own start-up experience which began in early high-school years. Sakshi has received recognition from the Division of Psychology in the UK, Association of Business Psychology, European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology and is frequently featured in various media mediums for her work.
Julia Cole - Chemical Engineering MEng Hons, 2014
Development Manager at Ylem Energy
Julia says: “Energy has always been my passion and I have worked in the sector ever since my year in industry at E.ON. I have had all types of careers from renewable research to combustion engineering and loved every second of it! I wanted to move into development and construction so that I could look back at what I'd worked on and physically see it coming to life. My role now is as the development manager of Ylem Energy, which builds distributed energy generation across the UK. It's a brilliant area to get stuck into and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.”
Joy Egede - Information Technology MSc, 2013
Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham
Dr. Joy Egede is a Research Fellow in the Computer Vision Lab and Biomedical Research Centre at the University of Nottingham. She received a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from Covenant University, Nigeria, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Nottingham. Prior to her postgraduate program, she worked in various software engineering roles in the Information Technology Industry, developing bespoke IT solutions to performance problems of businesses and government organisations. Currently, her research focuses on developing artificially intelligent digital healthcare technologies that support the early detection, diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions that alter audio-visual human behaviour as well as physiological responses such as pain and mental health disorders.
Charmalee Jayamaha - Electrical & Electronic Engineering PhD, 2015
International Smart Energy Innovation Lead at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
More information about Charmalee to follow.
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