Sarah Stead
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Sarah SteadDecember 1, 2017
WES Conference 2017 - a post-grad experience
As a second year PhD student, I have found the event most useful while listening the career paths of number of women engineers who have decided to move into industry rather than staying in academics after their higher educations. As...
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Sarah SteadNovember 30, 2017
WES Conference 2017 - Amy Donohoe
I really enjoyed my time at the conference - spending time with similar minded women all at the same point in their career and hearing about all their different backgrounds and reasons for studying engineering was really inspiring. The WES...
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Sarah SteadNovember 30, 2017
WES Student Conference - Idil Hassan
The WES conference proved to be a very inspiring event for me. Meeting women who have progressed exceptionally in the engineering field has given me an insight into what it means to be a female in the industry and how...
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Sarah SteadOctober 1, 2017
Presenting in Seoul - WESBath Caterpillar Award
I have recently attended the International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty (ISTA) congress. ISTA was established in 1988 and is dedicated to advancing the art and science of technology in joint replacement by connecting the leading clinicians, engineers, researchers and...
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Sarah SteadSeptember 25, 2017
BP Women in Engineering Award - The GREEN Programme experience
I was granted the BP Women in Engineering Award by BP and WESBath in 2017 for my participation in The GREEN Program organised in Iceland over 10 days. The flagship course in Iceland focuses on renewable energy and sustainability and is...
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Sarah SteadSeptember 21, 2017
BP Women in Engineering Award - ACE to Zambia
As a group of 6 civil engineering students, we spent 6 weeks working with the organisation Sport in Action in Lusaka, Zambia. Sport in Action aid the development of young people through sport. We were heavily involved with two main...
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Sarah SteadJuly 24, 2017
Reflections from Soapbox Science Bristol 2017
Soapbox science is a unique platform for women scientists and postgraduate researchers to showcase and engage the public with their research. Organised at various cities in the UK and abroad, popular public places are converted to speaker arenas and each...
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Sarah SteadJuly 10, 2017
Coupled with my role as a STEM Ambassador, I was delighted to represent WSP, who I am working for as a placement undergraduate students, and conduct demonstrations at The Big Bang Fair, held at the Trinity Centre in Bristol on...
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Sarah SteadJune 30, 2017
Attending the WES Student Groups Meeting - 28 June 2017
Being recently elected as the Co-Chairs of WESBath alongside with Leen Jabban, I was invited to attend the WES Student Groups Meeting held at UCL on 28th June, 2017. The day commenced with an introduction given by the Chief Executive...
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Sarah SteadJune 23, 2017
International Women's Engineering Day 2017
On Friday, 23 June 2017, WESBath celebrated INWED 2017 by hosting a group of female school students onto Campus to take part in a morning of engineering. We welcomed girls from Sheldon School in Chippenham and the IKB Academy in...