Inspirational Women

Meet our Inspirational Women, great role models who have defied stereotypoes and pursued their dreams to follow careers in science, technology, engineering and construction.

Jo Alexander - Project Leader at Jaguar Land Rover, manages a team of 15 to 20 engineers to design and develop the new Jaguar Sports car’s structural and sub-systems.

Ashleigh Griffin - winner of the L’Oreal fellowship for women in Science award, works as a research fellow for Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin

Alex Harris - successful Project Director in a large Engineering Consultancy in Valencia

Lara Small - worked as a Capability Acquisition Engineer in her Year in Industry with Rolls-Royce, and is the winner of the 2010 WISE Special Judges Award

Amruta Chandorkar - proud to be making a difference as one of the only women in her Construction company

Hannah Moore - finding new means for ageing and identifying blowflies found at crime scenes, which can be used to give Post Mortem Interval (PMI) estimations.

Cara Tissandier - as an Executive Sustainability Consultant, Cara isn’t phased by her male dominated environment

Maisie Wong - Chartered Civil Engineer, specialising in Building Structures

Lily Ryan-Collins - works for Belgian Red Cross (Sri Lanka Delegation) where she supervises the construction of new houses for those who lost their homes in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

Rebekka Bishop - works at Allen Vanguard who design, develop and manufacture sophisticated products to counter-act the threat of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) devices

Dami Adegunle - Reactor System Health Engineer who thinks that when it comes to a career within engineering, the sky’s the limit

Joanne Colderwood - Product Design Engineer for diesel engines at Ford Motor Company

Priti Parikh - set up her own company - Development Vision 2o2o - offering consultancy services for infrastructure delivery solutions, which are sustainable and relevant for low-income communities.

Rebecca Robinson - Clinical Scientist who was inspired to go into engineering by her father and the desire to change the way people live

Maggie Aderin-Pocock - Space Scientist, making novel, bespoke instrumentation for space and ground based missions