Our member insight series is an opportunity to get to know some of our Women in Transport members. This month, we are featuring some of North East Hub volunteers. In this member insight, we showcase Beverley Clyde, Community Relations Officer covering the Yorkshire and North East region.
Read moreMember Insight: Helen Mathews
Our member insight series is an opportunity to get to know some of our Women in Transport members. This month, we are featuring some of North East Hub volunteers. In this member insight, we showcase Helen Mathews, Head of Corporate Planning (Nexus, Tyne & Wear Passenger Transport Executive) covering the Yorkshire and North East Region.
Read moreScotland Hub: Meet the volunteers
Our volunteers are an integral part of our organisation and there are plenty of ways to get involved and help, from helping us making new connections, sharing ideas about future activities through to regular volunteering roles. We wouldn’t function without our dedicated team of volunteers that helps us run Women in Transport! Find out a bit more about volunteers and why they enjoy running the Scotland Hub of Women in Transport.
Read moreIntroducing the Scotland Hub sponsors
As the Scotland hub prepares for its very first event on 25th March at 17.00 we are delighted to introduce the three sponsors that are generously sponsoring our launch: Transport Scotland, Network Rail and Momentum Transport Consultancy.
Read moreMember Insight: Clare Wood
Our member insight series is an opportunity to get to know some of our Women in Transport members. This month, we are featuring some of North East Hub volunteers. In this member insight, we showcase Clare Wood, Director at Turner & Townsend Infrastructure Project Management covering the Yorkshire and North East region.
Read moreEurovia UK renews partnership with Women in Transport
On International Women’s Day, we are delighted to announce the renewal of our valued partnership with Eurovia UK. The partnership includes 50 free membership places offered by Eurovia UK to women, and men, across its business.
Read moreCross-party group of Parliamentarians calls on government and transport industry to challenge macho culture
Today (International Women’s Day), parliamentarians from across the political spectrum have called on government and the transport industry to challenge macho behaviours and culture in the transport workplace, following the publication of new research by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Women in Transport and the industry group, Women in Transport.
Read moreWomen in Transport launches in Scotland
Women in Transport are officially crossing the border with the establishment of an exciting new Scotland hub. With the recent launch of the Scotland National Transport Strategy and the eyes of the world on Glasgow as the COP26 conference meets in November, there has never been a more exciting or pivotal time for transport in Scotland.
Read moreA message about Christine Hurley
Our valued members and supporters of Women in Transport, will know our incredibly talented executive support and events lead, Christine Hurley. Over the past eight years, Christine has been at the heart of our organisation. The first point of contact for our members, sponsors and partners and affectionately known by the Board as our 'glue'.
Read moreWomen in Transport Book Club: How Women Rise by Marshall Goldsmith and Sally Helgesen
Women in Transport volunteer, Carmen Oleksinski, reviews the fourth session of the virtual book club. Hosted via Zoom in January, members came together to discuss their thoughts about ‘How Women Rise’ by Marshall Goldsmith and Sally Helgesen.
Read moreBridging the Gender Gap in Micro-Mobility: Voi joins Women in Transport
Voi Technology is proud to be the first micro-mobility operator to join Women in Transport, to make the transport sector a better industry through diversity, gender parity, and inclusion. According to data from the EU, only 22% of transport workers are women, and we want to encourage women to leave their mark on what continues to be a male-dominated field.
Read moreYour opportunity to take part in groundbreaking research
Would you like to take part in our groundbreaking research to help us gain a better understanding of women working in the transport industry? Can you spare ten minutes to take part in our anonymous survey and share your experiences and perceptions? As part of our role as Secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Women in Transport, we are researching women’s experiences and perceptions of working in the transport industry.
Read moreImproving your resilience and wellbeing using your strengths
Gill How - Leadership Development Consultant
2020 was certainly a challenging year for most of us. The arrival of the pandemic in March turned many a life upside down, often causing anxiety, stress and uncertainty around our work, relationships and health. It was a time, more than ever, when we needed to develop resilience. So, the generous offer from Gill How of a workshop on this topic to support our members was very welcome indeed.
Read moreLet's focus on the positive!
I’m currently reading our next book club read - How Women Rise. It’s a great read and talks about how focusing on things that lie within your control can help improve your situation and clear your path to success whereas focusing on external factors that aren’t in your control can be an exercise in frustration. On that note, we can’t change the pandemic but at Women in Transport we have taken some positive steps in 2020 to support our members and to ensure the future of our network.
Read moreResilience and looking after yourself in challenging times
As we emerge from our second lockdown and face restrictions into the spring, Susan Heaton Wright's generous offer to support our Women in Transport community with a workshop on resilience and looking after ourselves in challenging times, was very timely and very welcome.
Read moreWomen in Transport Book Club: Becoming by Michelle Obama
Women in Transport volunteer, Carmen Oleksinski, reviews the third session of the virtual book club. Hosted via Zoom in October, members came together to discuss their thoughts about ‘Becoming’ by Michelle Obama.
Read moreWomen in Transport's Neil Pepper MBE wins Best Male Mentor WICE Awards 2020
Congratulations to Neil Pepper MBE who has just won The European Women In Construction & Engineering (WICE) Awards for Best Male Mentor 2020. We are also thrilled that Victoria Sutherland, a Women in Transport members from Mott MacDonald was awarded Best Woman Rail Engineer 2020.
Read moreShaping Zero: Towards net zero carbon for infrastructure
On 3 November, Rachel Skinner, one of the founder members of Women in Transport and our Patron, became the 156th President of the Institution of Civil Engineers and marked the start of her year with ICE's first ever fully-virtual Inaugural Address. Rachel spoke passionately about just one issue: Net-Zero Carbon and the need for civil engineers to act together, urgently, to help reduce carbon emissions and therefore address climate change.
Read moreSupport HS2 through innovation in construction and design
High Speed Two Ltd (HS2), in collaboration with Innovate UK, is investing £300,000 in a Small Business Research Initiative competition to deliver innovation that will drive project efficiencies and process optimisations during the design and construction phase of the new railway.
Read moreWomen in Transport signs ‘Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Charter’ to support diversity across the sector
Women in Transport is delighted to be a signatory of the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Charter’ which has just been launched jointly by The Railway Industry Association (RIA) and Women in Rail (WR) to champion equality, diversity and inclusion in the UK railway industry. The joint charter is a commitment to work together to build a more balanced higher performing sector and has been backed by over 100 organisations.
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