Scientists and Engineers always stand on the shoulders of giants but, do we know the stories of those that came before us? What was their experience? INWES will celebrate Women in Engineering Day by remembering the women that are working daily and have stories that need to be voiced. Since 2020 INWES has collaborated with Graeme Gooday and Emily Rees Koerner of The School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at the University of Leeds to put into place a way to preserve the oral histories of Women in STEM. The webinar will take place in advance of INWED itself on Monday 19th of June at 13:00 UTC.
Oral history is a means to collect, preserve and interpret the stories of people and communities. Typically, it sets out to record voices missing from conventional historical records, such as the many hidden figures of women in STEM. The process of oral history creates a record of people’s remembered lives in the form of a personal narrative. By offering insights based on such first-hand memories, oral histories can help to fill the gaps in our knowledge of the history of women in STEM. This webinar extends the work already carried out which led to the first interviews by students at Leeds University and which can be found here (In)Visible Engineers: Remembering Forgotten Women’s Histories – INWES
The webinar is part of a series of webinars funded by the University of Warwick, “Empowering People’s Voices“.
Registration link: https://inwes.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0udu6gqTkqGdUxeJv04nDXMuKqiPOJpVK1
Program (Times are UTC):
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- 13:00 Introduction to INWES Stories of Women in STEM. Sarah Peers (recording)
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- 13:10 The role of Oral History and the INWES Toolkit. Graeme Gooday and Emily Rees
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- 14:10 Experience during the interviews.
A first draft of the Oral History Toolkit was made available to participants. This draft has now been updated and replaced and can be found here: Programs & Projects > INWES Herstories from August 2023.