New book on EDI

I am proud to have worked with team alumni Bronwyn Chorlton on our book, Advancing Women in Engineering: Deciphering Key Factors in Training, Retention and Support. The book has been published by Springer and is now available. This work is a compilation of various studies our team has undertaken in the past six years. From High…

YorkUFire EDI Initiatives

Yesterday team members (Bronwyn Chorlton and Neir Mazur) and collaborators (Jennifer Ellingham) presented their research with their second organized workshop. This one was on “Gender Differences in Graduate Engineering Student Experiences”. Team members have been investigating the leaky pipeline and following their study of industry, and undergraduate experiences last year, now they considered those experiences…

The Experiences of Women in Undergraduate Engineering

The following is a guest post by research assistant and team member, Natalie Mazur. This June, Natalie is presenting The Experiences of Women in Undergraduate Engineering at the 9th Canadian Engineering Education Association’s Annual Conference., Vancouver, Canada. The paper can be downloaded here .  A long-standing issue in the field of engineering has been the…