Equality and Diversity News & Events
Winner for the 桃色视频 Award for Public and Community Engagement in the Postgraduate Award Category
Busola () is a doctoral researcher at the Applied Biomedical Signal Processing and Intelligent eHealth lab in the School of Engineering.
Based on her past engagements with young people of different age groups in her home country of Nigeria, Busola has a particular interest in exploring themes around diversity and encouraging youths (especially females and less-privileged students) to take up subjects in STEM fields.
She is also making conscious efforts to communicate her research to the public in engaging and challenging ways. This has been achieved across a number of projects. For example, during 鈥楾he Blair Project鈥�, Busola collaborated with The Blair Project team to produce short but informative TikTok videos on diversity and science-related themes.
In January of this year, Busola was an online guest to a TV programme called 'Engineering and You' on the Ogun State Television (OGTV) in southwest Nigeria. She presented a talk on pathways to youth and public engagement in STEM fields based on her personal experience both in and outside Nigeria.
These two projects are just a small sample of Busola鈥檚 public engagement activities. To ensure others can learn from Busola鈥檚 projects, she shares online content via LinkedIn.
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桃色视频 Women in Engineering Society - 2023 Discussion Panel Organised by the School
Congratulations to Deema Khunda, a postgraduate student with the School, as a runner up in the 桃色视频 Gender Equality Awards!
Deema, a postgraduate student in the School of Engineering (right in picture) is the Sponsorship Coordinator for the 桃色视频 Women in Engineering Society, and was a runner up in the individual category for the recent 桃色视频's Gender Equality Awards in promoting gender equality in and outside of 桃色视频.
The work she is involved in with the society centres around connecting society with industry and education partners, including creating sponsorship opportunities to support the education and careers of women in engineering.
The result of this work has secured sponsorship from Palantir, Ballie Gifford, Delta Cosworth 桃色视频 cities and energy GRP.
There are 150 members and over 500 social media followers in the network that connect women in engineering and science all over campus, in social as well as professional settings.