Improving wellbeing during COVID-19 lockdown Appreciating and valuing others, knowing how our differences can boost or grate, can make lockdown more tolerable and improve everyone’s wellbeing during COVID-19 lockdown. We have all been locked together with people we often don’t spend much time with….
Here’s our end of year summary. Sharing event summaries and links to important programmes and research.
If enriching the student experience, closing the achievement gap and maintaining the diversity of your cohort into relevant work is important these five points will help. The are designed to build creative, engaged and innovative teaching and learning spaces and support people to produce…
Katalytik CEO and lead consultant Dr Jan Peters was the host for the Women in Engineering Leadership Conference at the Institute of Directors in October 2019. Here’s a round-up of thoughts and highlights. Finding yourself in a room talking about the need to…
What problems are hiding away? Do we really know what we mean by excellence in research? This is something I’ve been asking for some time. And how is this impacting on society? Can we address this through an inclusion lens? Our first Powtoon…
Some thoughts from our CEO, Jan Peters for #INWED19 Jan Peters spoke at the National Physical Laboratory on 20 June 2019 and explored historic women and reasons for shifting the language we use to be inclusive. Four tips to start building a more inclusive…
Dr Jan Peters has been working with the Engineering and Science Doctoral Training College at UCL helping PhD students explore their self-awareness. In this series of posts she explores techniques and thinking to help you grow your self-awareness and start to notice when…
Engineering students in a group
This new report Designing inclusive engineering education contains evidence, research based strategies and ideas for tweaking and adjusting current programmes and designing new ones. Addressing inclusion in engineering is not politically correct, nor is it difficult. It makes practical, real world sense. It also makes sense to ensure that the principles are embedded within the education of engineers from day one.
Katalytik is delighted to have been leading the transformation of engineering programmes to create engineers fit for the future. Through our engagement with employers and academics we have been actively involved with the development of the Integrated Engineering Programme at UCL following the HE STEM funded Set to Lead project with UCL.
The report is supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Centre for Engineering Education at UCL. The report will be launched as part of a two-day symposium, on 9 and 10 July in London, The event brings together experts and employers from across the UK to discuss and explore the four pillar model and strategies. The second day workshops will use the Katalytik Toolkit to facilitate conversations across the four pillars.
Jan Peters MBE of Katalytik says “Collaborating with UCL over the last 7 years and being involved in shaping the Integrated Engineering Programme has been a privilege and I’m delighted to see how ideas and research get translated into reality. I enjoy working with the engineering staff and students each year, supporting their team working and development as inclusive engineers. This report means that many more will have the chance to grow in this way”
Katalytik will be announcing a new programme of public workshops later in the summer.
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Inclusive Engineering Education Symposium 2 9 and 10 July 2018, London Katalytik is delighted to be collaborating with the UCL Centre for Engineering Education and the Royal Academy of Engineering to bring a different perspective to inclusion and diversity in engineering education. The highlight of…
Article published in the WES Journal How many times have you cringed at someone’s comments or behaviours? Or perhaps it has been a back handed compliment and you yourself were the recipient: “You’re doing really well, for a part timer”. Collectively these seemingly innocuous…