The engineering industry is one that has a long-standing reputation for being male-dominated and lacking in diversity. Efforts to grow diversity in the field have often met with resistance, primarily due to a persistent belief in meritocracy and the idea that “the best” engineers…
Our names can reveal important clues about who we are, our age, ethnicity, or social class, for example, that can affect how we’re treated by others. Exploring research on names is fascinating in itself.
Few of us work alone these days. We all depend on others to help us deliver our work, daily, weekly or monthly. We tend to drift into routines. Our networks can become limited. So how can you invest a bit of time to enrich…
Improving wellbeing during COVID-19 lockdown Appreciating and valuing others, knowing how our differences can boost or grate, can make lockdown more tolerable and improve everyone’s wellbeing during COVID-19 lockdown. We have all been locked together with people we often don’t spend much time with….
Four things to notice: first steps to seeing what others experience Growing the diversity of engineers soaks up millions of pounds on role model schemes, campaigns and outreach, and even more volunteer hours. Yet the percentage of women entering engineering has flatlined at 15%….
Sharing knowledge and good practice across disciplines and continents provides a stimulating and rich environment to grow and learn. This is no less true than at the HETL conference, held outside of the US for the first time in Scotland this year, Katalytik was…
Wednesday 26th April Jan Peters was at the OU today providing some thought provoking ideas about making STEM education inclusive.
A new blog post by Jan Peters, summarising the status of progress towards PPE that fits. You have to agree, it is ridiculous that in 2017 women are still being given safety equipment that quite simply isn’t fit for purpose. As well as writing on…
Code Challenge Set up in 2013 as a project to recruit more STEM Ambassadors with coding skills we developed the code challenge with STEM Wilts and Dorset. We set a challenge with a broad theme and matched schools with a STEM Ambassador. The topic…
PRESS RELEASE: IMMEDIATE RELEASE 30 November 2010 EHRC COMMISSIONS KATALYTIK FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY RESEARCH Katalytik has been awarded a high-profile research contract by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to help the UK construction industry reap the benefits of improving diversity practice…