EMBRACING DIVERSITY: Diversity Diaries Alex Mather

Today’s episode focuses on Higher Education and talks to award-winning Civil Engineering Apprentice, Jessica Clark.

Jessica Clark is a Civil Engineer at the start of her career, who has chosen to follow the apprenticeship route. In todays podcast she discusses the adversities that Engineering apprentices can face, and how colleagues can support them.

In todays episode we speak to Paula McMahon, a Civil Engineer working at Sir Robert McAlpine. Paula speaks about the fact that females are a minority in Engineering, and how this relates to PPE: Personal Protective Equipment. 

Paula is an advocate for women in Engineering, having just won the "Lifetime in Engineering" Award at the Women in Construction & Engineering Awards.   Recently, Paula wrote article "Safety over Style" for the Institution of Civil Engineers about her experiences with PPE, and why it matters that women have access to PPE that fits them correctly. 

You can find the article here;

https://www.ice.org.uk/news-and-insight/ice-community-blog/march-2021/safety-over-style-personal-my-ppe

Today’s episode focuses on Mental Health and talks to Traffic Signals Engineer, Joanna Bateman.

In the video Joanna discusses her experiences with pregnancy, post-natal depression and miscarriage.  Joanna has kindly shared the following links for more information, advice and guidance about the topics discussed in today’s video;

https://www.kickscount.org.uk/ 

https://www.tommys.org/ 

https://www.simbacharity.org.uk/ 

https://pndsupport.co.uk/ 

https://pandasfoundation.org.uk/ 

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-s...

Thankyou for listening.

In todays episode we speak to Lucy Moore, an Apprentice Engineer at Teledyne E2V.   

Lucy discusses her experiences in the workplace with anxiety, depression and panic attacks, the adversities people may face because of these challenges, and how colleagues can be allies to people experiencing this.