ChemEng Culture – Issue 1008
Tim Marsh speaks to Sam Baker about his 30-year career in occupational health and safety and argu...
Features
A Trump Card against Diversity?
Mark McBride-Wright looks at what the US presidential term of Donald Trump might mean for diversi...
Get involved: nominations sought for IChemE’s Board of Trustees and Congress
IChemE will shortly be asking for nominations to join either the Board of Trustees or Congress. R...
Book Review: The SAFE Leader
Mark McBride-Wright MBE CENG; ISBN: 979-8887970738; Publish Your Purchase; 2024; US$25.40 (Print)
IChemE Matters: Elevating Member Engagement – the Next Level
Andrea Hosey reflects on the achievements of the inaugural Member Engagement Committee and highli...
Engineering Inclusivity: Bridging the Gap with DEI
Mark McBride-Wright says diversity, equity and inclusion requires the perfect integration of uniq...
Getting More Women and Girls into Engineering
As International Women in Engineering Day approaches and with women still significantly underrepr...
Who Will Win Your Vote in the Trustee Elections?
With voting set to close at 09:30 BST on 16 May, you are running out of time to help decide IChem...
The Benefits of Neurodiversity Talent in Engineering
To mark World Autism Acceptance Month, James Cusack highlights the many benefits of neurodivergen...
Working for Acceptance: How I’m Thriving as an Autistic Engineer
To mark Neurodiversity Celebration Week, engineer Charlotte Wessels charts her journey from outer...
Book Review: Valued at Work
Lauren Neal; ISBN: 9781788604680; Practical Inspiration Publishing; 2023; £14.99 (paperback)
IChemE Matters: A conversation with Congress
Ahead of the official call for nominations in March, representatives from Congress sat down to di...
IChemE Matters: Nominations sought for IChemE’s Board of Trustees and Congress
With the start of the 2024 election cycle nearly upon us, we will soon be seeking nominations for...
Is your membership about to lapse? Don’t miss out on the new member benefits we will launch during my presidency
Nigel Hirst reminds IChemE members to safeguard their membership and their access to IChemE’s res...
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Safely Delivering Industrial Gases
With INWED focused on 'Make Safety Seen', Caroline Smither tells Yasmin Ali about her work helpin...
INWED 2023: Marlene Kanga on the Satisfaction of Engineering a Safer Society
With INWED focused on 'Make Safety Seen', Marlene Kanga talks to Orla Douds about the satisfactio...
INWED 2023: Alexandra Meldrum on Being Curious and Building a Portfolio Career
For INWED 2023, Alexandra Meldrum offers insights on building an engineering career that makes a ...
The Right Balance: Women in Engineering
Orla Douds, Anousha Khan, Martyna Cepaite and Jessica Pidgeon share their experiences of gender b...
New Year’s Resolutions
As we face grand challenges, Alexandra Meldrum says let’s consider the practical actions we can e...
The Benefits of a PhD: An Academic's Perspective
In the second part of this series, members of IChemE’s National Early Careers Committee talk to V...
Reflect and Project
Adam Duckett recaps an inspirational year
Book Review: The Authority Gap
Mary Ann Sieghart; ISBN: 9781784165888; Black Swan (an imprint of Transworld Publishers); 2022; ...
Question Time: Built Environment & Transport
A panel of experts speaking at IChemE’s Centenary webinar urged attendees to think and work toget...
Risk: We've Got it Covered
Mariné Botha and Rachel Ramskill share their experiences of working in risk engineering in the Mi...
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Xueqi Wang
Xueqi Wang talks to Yasmin Ali about her career in refining precious metals across the globe
Building a Sustainable Future
Kathryn Richardson talks about her role as Area Environment Manager at the Environment Agency in ...
Adapting to Change
Parika Ale explains why she believes that – in some ways at least – the global pandemic has been ...
Shaping a Better World
Adam Duckett on shaping a better world
Diversity: Where has it Gone?
Reflections from Uchenna Onwuamaegbu, Jamie Hoar, Heather Williams and IChemE’s National Early Ca...
Question Time: Social Experience
Chemical engineers gather to discuss how the profession can help shape a better future
Centenary Themes: Social Experience
At-a-glance information on what's in the third of our centenary theme specials
Ethics Series Introduction: Ethics and the Chemical Engineer
David Bogle and Raffaella Ocone introduce a new series of articles urging chemical engineers to ‘...
Remaining Relevant in a Changing World
New IChemE President Jane Cutler speaks to Adam Duckett
Bring Your Whole Self to Work
Solvay CEO Ilham Kadri’s advice for women in STEM
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Measuring Progression
Macsene Isles-Ahite, David Lloyd-Roach and Alana Collis talk about why IChemE needs to better und...
Research Bias
Raffaella Ocone and Nina Baker seek out the stories of chemical engineering’s female forerunners
Men as Allies
Adam Duckett asks what are men doing to help support gender diversity and inclusion?
Solving Problems at Scale
Jane Cutler talks to Adam Duckett about her inspirations and quest for skills
Championing Research
A message from the new Editor-in-Chief of ChERD, Jerry Heng
Tackling Hidden Thoughts Within
Our sector must do more to improve unconscious bias in the workplace, says Kelly Paul
Engage with ED&I
Adam Duckett on the need to engage with equality, diversity and inclusion
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) and IChemE
Macsene Isles-Ahite shares her vision for ED&I in IChemE and the chemical engineering profession.
INWED: Female chemical engineers recognised for green leadership
AS celebrations get underway for International Women in Engineering Day (INWED), we caught up wit...
Turning the Dial – How Can We Bring More Women into Engineering?
Overturning some common perceptions and creating a more flexible working environment is essential...
INWED: ‘At the end of the day, we are all engineers’
HELD on 23 June, International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) is a global awareness campaign wh...
IChemE: a Learned Society and a Review of Policy Work
Working with members to develop a more effective strategy for policy
Do Your Earnings Stack Up?
A review of the key findings from IChemE’s Salary Survey
Mind The Gap – You’re Fired!
James Damore (@SkepticalTechie) was fired from his role as a software engineer at Google for his ...
Health and Safety: Diverse and Inclusive
Employers should know that robust D&I initiatives will lead to better H&S
News
Multiscale ambition: Ocone outlines plans to strengthen diversity and the status of the profession in IChemE presidential address
RAFFAELLA OCONE has said she will use her IChemE presidency to diversify the chemical engineering...
Pioneering UK engineering university celebrates first graduates
AN ENGINEERING university in Hereford which teaches without the need for lectures or exams has ce...
Sorensen and Pelzel among IChemE members elected to Royal Academy of Engineering
EVA SORENSEN and Rodney Pelzel are among five IChemE members elected fellows of the UK’s Royal Ac...
US$1m Google partnership offers AI placements for disadvantaged UK undergrads
UK UNDERGRADUATE engineering students from disadvantaged backgrounds will be offered summer place...
IChemE members Amiaka and Lake named among Top 50 Women in Engineering
TWO ICHEME members – Nike Amiaka and Amanda Lake – have been recognised in the Women’s Engineerin...
Wellcome commits £20m to increase representation of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani researchers
WELLCOME is launching a £20m (US$25m) funding drive to help tackle the underrepresentation of Bla...
Engineering employers must support neurodivergent people to make sector more inclusive, report says
A REPORT published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) says that there is an u...
Oxford’s rapid Covid test wins top prize at IChemE Awards
THE University of Oxford has been given IChemE’s outstanding achievement in chemical and process ...
A new gallery celebrating engineers opens at the Science Museum
AN exhibition called Engineers opened today at the Science Museum in London dedicated to world-ch...
UCL chemical engineering department receives Gold Athena Swan award for gender equality efforts
UNIVERSITY College London’s chemical engineering department has been awarded gold status as part ...
New partnership seeks to get STEM professionals on a career break back into the industry
CHEMICALS giant Johnson Matthey has formed a new partnership with STEM Returners, an organisation...
The University of Newcastle wins two Cygnet Awards
THE University of Newcastle has become the first university in Australia to be awarded two Scienc...
RAEng funds engineering department initiatives to bolster student diversity
EIGHT UK university engineering departments have been awarded more than £700,000 (US$850,000) by ...
Inquiry launched into apprenticeship decline
WITH the UK battling an acute skills shortage, Former Labour and Conservative ministers Lord Knig...
Folayan awarded MBE in New Year Honours
ICHEME Fellow Oluwole Olawale Folayan has been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Emp...
INWED: Navya Thomas recognised as an innovator
COINCIDING with the celebration of International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) 2022, Research ...
Mark McBride-Wright wins Rooke Award
Campaigning chemical engineer Mark McBride-Wright is to receive one of the Royal Academy of Engin...
RAEng awards £1m to boost diversity success at engineering departments
UK university engineering departments have been awarded £1m (US$1.3m) from the Royal Academy of E...
A call for digital chemical engineering editors
THE EDITORIAL board of IChemE’s new journal, Digital Chemical Engineering, is calling for editors...
MPs launch STEM diversity investigation
THE UK’s House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has launched an inquiry, Diversity in ...
Engineering X outlines strategy for the profession to lead on safety in complex systems
FACED with an increasingly complex and interconnected world, the Royal Academy of Engineering (RA...
Wood strengthens its commitments to sustainability
WOOD has announced a decade of action with new goals to improve lives, reduce impact on the plane...
IChemE Safety Centre holds webinar to mark International Women’s Day
THE IChemE Safety Centre (ISC) held a webinar on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Safety to m...
Stories to read while we are away
WITH the editorial team having shut down their laptops until 4 January, we wanted to close with a...
LSBU encourages black and minority women to consider engineering
LONDON South Bank University (LSBU), UK, is today hosting an event which aims to inspire the next...
RAEng working to deliver more representative Fellowship
THE UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) has launched a campaign aiming to deliver a Fellows...
Publishers come together to take action on diversity in research publishing
A GROUP of 11 publishers, led by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), has made a commitment to t...
Derby exhibition showcases women in engineering
THE University of Derby, UK is currently hosting a photography exhibit entitled Women Engineers –...
UK students to tackle engineering challenges
FIVE UK student teams are to compete against counterparts from the US and China as part of a spec...
RPS calls for entries into new science photography competition
THE Royal Photographic Society (RPS), an international charity organisation, is calling for entri...
Perkins report finds scant progress on engineering skills
FIVE years on from the publication of his engineering skills review for the UK Government, former...
Westminster Abbey hosts engineering celebration
ENGINEERING was the focus of celebration today at a first-of-a-kind national service held at Lond...
EPSRC funds Inclusion Matters initiative
THE EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) has announced that it is giving a ...
UK outlines £200m nuclear sector deal
THE UK government has unveiled a £200m (US$262m) deal in partnership with the nuclear industry th...
UK pay gap shows scale of male senior dominance
KEY employers of chemical engineers in the UK have published their gender pay gap information but...
IChemE Member Madeleine Jones wins Karen Burt Award
MADELEINE JONES, a Chartered Member of IChemE, has won the Women’s Engineering Society’s (WES) Ka...
IChemE member an ASEAN-US Science Prize for Women finalist
ICHEME associate member Chong Mei Fong will represent Malaysia as a finalist in the ASEAN-US Scie...
RAEng: Culture change needed for inclusion
THE engineering profession needs a widespread culture change to improve inclusion in the workplac...
Girls: stick with it
TODAY is International Women in Engineering Day, and while 16% of engineering students are female...
