Making women visible online - a practical toolkit for anyone running a website or blog that includes SET.
Date Published: 6 May 2011
This toolkit will help you represent men and women fairly and positively, ensuring that you are inspirational to your audiences, and that you build diversity in content and in visitors to your online activities. It identifies some of the challenges to look out for, and it lists some useful resources that will help you represent men and women in SET in positive ways.
The Business Case for Increasing the Diversity of Apprentices in the Energy Sector
Date Published: 1 March 2011
Funded by the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS), the UKRC developed and ran a ‘Diversity in Apprenticeships’ pilot project in 2010/2011, working with the UK’s leading energy providers to increase the number of female and BAME apprentices in this sector.
Best Practice in Running Female Only Open Days for Apprenticeships
Date Published: 1 March 2011
Funded by the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS), the UKRC developed and ran a ‘Diversity in Apprenticeships’ pilot project in 2010/11, working with the UK’s leading energy providers to increase the number of female and BAME apprentices in this sector.
Best Practice in the Recruitment Process for Atypical Apprentices
Date Published: 1 March 2011
Funded by the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS), the UKRC developed and ran a ‘Diversity in Apprenticeships’ pilot project in 2010/11, working with the UK’s leading energy providers to increase the number of female and BAME apprentices in this sector.
Best Practice in Attracting Atypical Applicants to Apprenticeships
Date Published: 1 March 2011
Funded by the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS), the UKRC developed and ran a ‘Diversity in Apprenticeships’ pilot project in 2010/11, working with the UK’s leading energy providers to increase the number of female and BAME apprentices in this sector.
Women into leadership: How to encourage women into leadership roles in science, engineering and technology
Date Published: 16 February 2011
This good practice guide sets out the reasons why employers in science, engineering, technology and the built environment (SET) are increasingly looking for ways to encourage more women into managerial and senior roles in their organisations.
Transforming boardroom cultures in SET: Good practice guide to inclusive boardrooms
Date Published: 6 October 2010
This good practice guide identifies a number of boardroom and director development practices that will facilitate a more inclusive and hopefully more effective boardroom culture. Some of these recommendations pertain more to the corporate board and others to the executive board, but these recommendations have relevance for many kinds of boards where an inclusive culture will allow more people to make an effective contribution.
Mentoring good practice guide 2009
Date Published: 6 December 2009
This guide will give you a real understanding of why and how mentoring has such a positive impact. It also tells you what support is available, through the UKRC for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology and others, to help you put mentoring programmes into practice within your organisation.