Overview

The All Ireland Member Group is proud to support an Engineers Week STEM event at University College Cork organised by WiSTEM, a group of female university students, seeking to form a society to support, help and encourage women to achieve their full potential in STEM, within the university and at the beginnings of their careers.

The night itself will be a series of talks from women in STEM covering a range of topics such as careers, challenges, opportunities and the future of STEM.

Agenda

Challenges

• 20:00–20:15 – Unconscious Bias: Dr Gillian Murphy, Applied Psychology UCC
• 20:15–20:30 – Culturewise Interactive Talk: Culture as a lens in social perception – Dr Alvina GROSU Director Culturewise

Women working in STEM  

• 20:30–21.15 – Each speaking about her career
  • Magaly V. Mora, WITS Executive Committee Member
  • Representatives from WES Industry/Research

Future and opportunities

• 21:15–21:30 – WiSTEM2D: Liz Dooley, Johnson&Johnson
• 21:30–21:45 – Athena SWAN: Ann King, UCC Project Officer Athena SWAN