Students & Careers
Women in Transport
Highway and transport engineering is all about solving community and environmental problems:
Locally
Abroad
Sustainably
Women account for around 11.6% of those working as construction and management professionals.
Go to www.wisecampaign.org.uk for loads of careers information on women in science, engineering and construction. Download the WISE Directory of Initiatives.
Building Visions: watch the video
Join in
- Women's Transport Network run by DfT
- Women in Transportation (WTS) London Chapter
- New forum for women in the Intelligent Transport Systems sector (October 2008)
- Womens Engineering Society - Inspiration and networking.
- Scottish Resource Centre for Women in SET
- Interconnect for Scottish women studying SET
GetSET Women
Women who work in engineering and construction are invited to join the GetSET web network. You can showcase your work and promote your company, keep up to date with CPD on gender equality, access information about applying for public positions and link into the mentoring and coaching service.
Information
IHE has signed the CEO Charter
- A pledge to positively support women in the profession.
An initiative of the UK Resource Centre for Women is Science, Engineering and Technology which also offers support for Returners.
Building the Future
This CIC 2010 Report recommends good practice based on construction case studies.
Fair Access to the Professions
Read the Government Report.
Tomorrows World:
Report of UK Resource Centre National Conference 2009
Read more real careers
IHE Members
A third of IHE's Council are women engineers. Here are profiles of some of them and other members.
Sara Pegram
Contract Implementation Engineer, Surrey CC
Caron Ballantyne
Principal Engineer, Jacobs
Gill Foster
Principal Engineer, Jacobs
Kate Fuller
Principal Consultant, TRL
Antonia Buckland
Schemes Operations Manager, MouchelParkman
Ellie Gormley
Principal Traffic Engineer, Telford
www.bconstructive.co.uk/ has diaries of how people got started, including typical days, hopes for the future.
Jenny Wilks, Civil Engineer
Eleni Golfinou, Junior Site Engineer
Alison, Infrastructure (bridges) engineer
And www.scenta.co.uk/careers.cfm has lots of role model profiles.
