National Student Pride 2016

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We attended National Student Pride to provide representation for the engineering industry to over 1000 students who attended the event. Students travelled from across the UK to London for the event which hosted panel discussions, fun events and also a large careers fair at which we had a stall. Team InterEng for the day comprised myself (Mark McBride-Wright), Fiona Connor, …

“Inclusive Engineering: The Way Ahead” Panel Discussion

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On 16th November 2015, we organised our first Inter-institute event “Inclusive Engineering: The Way Ahead” which I am pleased to say was a great success! The event was kindly hosted by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) at their beautiful headquarters at One Great George Street. ICE also arranged for the discussion to be recorded for us too therefore allowing …

Rolls-Royce “PRISM” LGBT Network Launch

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On 27th October 2015, I had the pleasure of being invited to present at the launch of the newly formed LGBT employee resource group PRISM. Other speakers included senior HR Director from Rolls-Royce and also the renowned LGBT rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. Rolls-Royce spoke about the company is working to create a High Performing Organisation, and Peter covered the ethical …

At Home & Abroad Panel Discussion

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On September 23rd 2015, BuroHappold hosted a panel discussion for us at their London Office. The topic for the evening was the experiences of LGBT engineers working in the UK and also overseas. Andrew Best (Director, Buro Happold) opened the evening and the panel was chaired by Dr Mark McBride-Wright (Chair, InterEngineering). Panel speakers included: Grant Hayden, Electrical Engineer, BP …

Setting Up An LGBT Company Network

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Our first main formal business event was hosted at WSP offices, Holborn from 6pm on Wednesday 25th March. Around 40 turned up to listen to Matteo Lissana (Client Account Manager, Stonewall), Thomas Andersen (Inclusive Networks), Mark Mackenzie OBE (TfL) and Andy Smith (BP) talk about their experiences of LGBT company networks. Matteo kicked off first and spoke about the work …

April Social Drinks

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For our April social drinks, we returned to Balls Brothers in central London on 9th April. The evening had a good turn out of about 15 engineers with members travelling from as far as Bristol! This shows commitment to the cause for some of the empowered engineers out there.  It was great to welcome new members to reconnect with those …

February Social

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Our first social drinks in February were a roaring success. Everyone sampled the offerings from Balls Brothers (yes, we note the ironic name), Bury Court. Situated at the bottom of the Gherkin in central London, the venue provided a great platform for networking with like-minded engineers in a convenient location for most to reach. Connections were made and new members …

InterEngineering: Starting Out

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It’s been a busy start to the year so far for InterEngineering, as we work to take on board the reams of feedback we received from you all during our first event last year. We’ll be publishing our key findings in our newsletter in February, however for those of you who would like to see the suggestions we collected: Events, …