Section News

Call for Participation | Second Event of ‘Early Career Talk’ Series

IEEE WIE UKI’s goal is to facilitate the recruitment and retention of women in technical disciplines globally.

We envisage a vibrant community of IEEE women and men collectively using their diverse talents to innovate for the benefit of humanity. IEEE WIE UK and Ireland through the Ambassador Scheme are calling women in engineering to participate in a technical, inspirational and empowering session tagged “EARLY CAREER TALK”.

This programme supports women from academia or industry who have been in an industry/postgraduate position for less than 10 years. The first IEEE WIE UKI “EARLY CAREER TALK” event was successfully held on April 8th 2021 has attracting attention from both academia and industry.

This second event converges the novel (state-of-the-art) research areas in engineering, establishing networking/collaboration links, exploring new research opportunities for developing interactions between Academia, Industry and Government fostering economic and social development.

This session welcomes speakers/presenters from any part of the world who are:

  • PhD students close to graduation and have published papers in respectful conferences/journals
  • Engineers who have participated in innovative projects

Please include the following information when applying:

  • Area of career (academia/industry)
  • Research interests
  • Talk subject (100-word)
  • Speaker bio, links and web pages, photo

Workshop details:

  • The call for Second Event of ‘Early Career Talk’ closes Aug 16th, 2021
  • The Session will be held and delivered virtually Oct 16th, 2021.

If you would like to participate in this exciting workshop, please email the documents required to Dr Nagham Saeed (IEEE WIE UKI Ambassadors Network lead) at nagham.saeed@uwl.ac.uk.

Recommended email title is: “Opportunity to participate in Early Career Talk”

We look forward to receiving your submission.