{"id":720,"date":"2016-10-19T13:22:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T12:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/?p=720"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:57:30","slug":"rebecca-stephens-mbe-joins-the-sprint-professional-development-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/2016\/10\/19\/rebecca-stephens-mbe-joins-the-sprint-professional-development-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Stephens (MBE) joins the Sprint professional development programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/01\/Picture1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-541\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/01\/Picture1-300x105.jpg\" alt=\"Picture1\" width=\"300\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/01\/Picture1-300x105.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/01\/Picture1.jpg 359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/01\/download.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-542 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/01\/download-300x95.jpg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"300\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/01\/download-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/01\/download.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Applications are now open for Sprint; a fantastic professional development programme for undergraduate women. Sprint enables female undergraduates to reach their fullest potential, focusing on key topics such as how to use your personal power, identify individual\u00a0values, recognise personal strengths and learn how to use assertiveness positively.<\/p>\n<p>This year we are delighted to welcome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccastephens.com\/\">Rebecca Stephens<\/a>\u00a0(MBE), the first British woman to climb Mount Everest, to the Sprint programme. Alongside inspiring\u00a0female role models\u00a0from organisations such as AXA, Microsoft and Arup, Rebecca will talk about how women can embrace fear of failure to achieve their professional and personal goals.<\/p>\n<p>The first three days of the programme will run during the inter-semester break as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>30 January 2017\u00a0- FULL DAY<\/li>\n<li>31 January 2017\u00a0- FULL DAY<\/li>\n<li>1 February 2017\u00a0- FULL DAY<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A final\u00a01\/2 day\u00a0of training will take place on the afternoon of\u00a022 February 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Further information, including how to apply can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/students\/careers\/equalities\/sprint\/index.html\">here.<\/a> We welcome applications from\u00a0all undergraduate\u00a0women and those students\u00a0who identify as female.<\/p>\n<p>Industry partners:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/10\/Arup-Logo-Black.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-721\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/10\/Arup-Logo-Black-300x90.png\" alt=\"arup-logo-black\" width=\"227\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/10\/Arup-Logo-Black-300x90.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/10\/Arup-Logo-Black-768x230.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/10\/Arup-Logo-Black-1024x307.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/10\/AXA_Centre_490px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-722 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/10\/AXA_Centre_490px-300x119.jpg\" alt=\"axa_centre_490px\" width=\"262\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/10\/AXA_Centre_490px-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/10\/AXA_Centre_490px.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/10\/MSFT_logo_rgb_C-Gray_D.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-723\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/10\/MSFT_logo_rgb_C-Gray_D-300x110.png\" alt=\"msft_logo_rgb_c-gray_d\" width=\"262\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/10\/MSFT_logo_rgb_C-Gray_D-300x110.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/10\/MSFT_logo_rgb_C-Gray_D-768x283.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2016\/10\/MSFT_logo_rgb_C-Gray_D-1024x377.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applications are now open for Sprint; a fantastic professional development programme for undergraduate women. Sprint enables female undergraduates to reach their fullest potential, focusing on key topics such as how to use your personal power, identify individual\u00a0values, recognise personal strengths...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[748],"tags":[314,313,72],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-sprint","tag-undergraduates","tag-women"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}