Research
A part-time PhD Researcher at UCL’s Centre for Engineering Education, Kate is looking at gender balance on UK undergraduate engineering courses.
With a first degree in physics, an MSc in electronics and a career in the media, Kate has been promoting opportunities for women in STEM, and more specifically engineering, for nearly three decades. While the percentage of undergraduate engineers who are female is slowly increasing in the UK, we lack insight into the substantial disparity in gender balance between different universities.
After analysing data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, she is now gathering qualitative data by interviewing female engineering students and university staff to explore how a university’s actions and offerings may influence women engineers’ decision of where and what to study.
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The ‘time filler’ project that grew into another conference paper: University portrayal of undergraduate engineering: variation and implications.
The ‘time filler’ project that grew into another conference paper: University portrayal of undergraduate engineering: variation and implications. Once I’d decided I wanted to interview female engineering students for my research, I was raring to go and wanted to grab...
My first academic paper: Exploring the variation in gender balance on undergraduate engineering courses in UK universities
My first academic paper: Exploring the variation in gender balance on undergraduate engineering courses in UK universities. I started my research journey by trying to find the percentage of undergraduate engineers who are female at each UK university. The Higher...
