Women Like Me
A mentoring and outreach initiative in the Bristol and Bath area aimed at increasing female participation in engineering and construction careers.
Welcome to Women Like Me, a peer mentoring and outreach project dedicated to increase female representation in engineering and construction. Led by Dr Laura Fogg Rogers since 2018, we pair senior female engineers and property professionals with junior counterparts, fostering mentoring relationships supported through various events.
Our program provides training and opportunities for juniors to engage in outreach, serving as role models for young girls. With only 16.5% of UK engineers being female, we focus on recruitment and retention, showcasing engineering as a creative and collaborative field.
By pairing mid-career and junior women engineers in Bristol and Bath, we offer career mentoring and public engagement to create immediate workplace impacts.
Who can take part?
The Women Like Me project supports women in Bristol and Bath area to become:
Mentors
Senior female engineers or property professionals, with at least five years' experience.
Mentees
Female engineers or surveyors with less than five years’ experience in the West of England area or current UWE Bristol degree apprentices, studying STEM related courses.
How to get involved
You can register your interest in the Women like Me project using the enquiry form.
For more information, please email engineeringourfuture@uwe.ac.uk or follow the project on X (formerly Twitter) @EngOurFutureUWE or LinkedIn.
Women Like Me
Watch our short video to find out more about the impact that our mentoring programme has had so far.
Funding
Previously funded by a Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious grant and Digital Engineering Technology and Innovation (DETI), we now have additional funding from the Office for Students. This has enabled us to introduce additional cohorts in support of our degree apprenticeships.
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