Equality and Diversity News & Events

Hosted by the ‘International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists’ (INWES), the award celebrates Professor Georgia KremmydaLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window’s achievements in global capacity building (developing and building knowledge and skills internationally) and commitments to the representation of women in STEM.

Georgia leads the ENHANCE project – a community-based engineering programme, training young engineers in Asia, in particular in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam, to tackle humanitarian challenges

The project has already included more than 300 modules worldwide – and 6,000 students annually.

President of INWES Jung Sun Kim added:
“Professor Kremmyda is an example of excellent achievement in engineering in terms of research, education and advocacy for women in STEM. Her leadership and trailblazing contributions in Civil Engineering and overall STEM are inspirational”.

Busola (LinkedIn) is a doctoral researcher at the Applied Biomedical Signal Processing and Intelligent eHealth lab in the School of Engineering.

Based on her past engagements with young people of different age groups in her home country of Nigeria, Busola has a particular interest in exploring themes around diversity and encouraging youths (especially females and less-privileged students) to take up subjects in STEM fields.

She is also making conscious efforts to communicate her research to the public in engaging and challenging ways. This has been achieved across a number of projects. For example, during ‘The Blair Project’, Busola collaborated with The Blair Project team to produce short but informative TikTok videos on diversity and science-related themes.

In January of this year, Busola was an online guest to a TV programme called 'Engineering and You' on the Ogun State Television (OGTV) in southwest Nigeria. She presented a talk on pathways to youth and public engagement in STEM fields based on her personal experience both in and outside Nigeria.

These two projects are just a small sample of Busola’s public engagement activities. To ensure others can learn from Busola’s projects, she shares online content via LinkedIn.

Further information and other WAPCE winnersLink opens in a new window