EVENTS
Over the course of the project, Electrifying Women ran a series of events about the history of women in engineering in different parts of the UK. Here you will find a selection of those events with additional resources attached, including PDFs of the presentations and other relevant material.
Watch an introductory video to the Electrifying Women project filmed at the opening event at the Science Museum, London on the 5 June 2019.
This video was produced for the project by Research Retold.
Volunteer Training Sessions
The project ran two training sessions for volunteers in early 2020 at the Science Museum in London and at Devonshire Hall in Leeds. All the resources from these training sessions can be found on the volunteering resources page.
Lectures and Talks
Talks for University Students/Schools
Creative Writing Workshops
The project ran three creative writing workshops in 2019 in Leeds and London. The sessions were run by creative writing specialist Hannah Stone. As a result of the workshops, an anthology From Fact to Fantasy was published, which can be downloaded below. If you are interested in running your own creative writing workshop based on women in engineering, resources can be found on the creative writing resources page.
SHE, Stage@Leeds, 21-23 November 2019
A play about the lives of women in engineering, commissioned by the Electrifying Women project and devised by University of Leeds students. The entire performance is available below.
Education packs for KS3 and KS4 students relating to the performance are available in the Educational Source Packs.