News and Events

Dr Nidhi Simmons and Dr Zarah Mobini named in the "100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in 6G™" List for 2025.

On Friday 7 March, we celebrated International Women's Day 2025 by highlighting an EEECS PhD Researcher working on the misuse of smart tech.

EEECS Athena Swan hosted an Afternoon tea for female PhD students on 27 February 2025, to encourage students to meet with their peers over some hot drinks and tasty treats.

On Friday 15 November, the EEECS Swan co-champions were delighted to be invited to an event in the Queen’s Business School on Women and Leadership: Looking to the Future.

EEECS were lucky to host a special guest this week, Cecilia Harvey, a celebrated Women in Tech advocate, co-founder of Tech Women Today and COO of City and Guilds, whilst she visited Queen’s for the Global Innovation Summit.

For this year's Ada Lovelace Day celebrations, we hosted a panel event at the School of EEECS and held a coding workshop with Ashfield Girls' High School.

As this academic year comes to an end, we held our annual Athena SWAN SAT Away Day where the SAT team met outside of the university campus to brainstorm ideas and best practice to support gender equity in the School of EEECS.

EEECS SWAN Co-Champion, Dr Ayesha Khalid, shares her experience of the recent celebrations to mark the Athena SWAN Gold Award recently received by Queen's University Belfast.

EEECS SWAN Co-Champion, Dr Ciara Rafferty, was one of the panellists at Northern Ireland's first CyberFirst EmPower Girls event on 30 April 2024 at Windsor Park and shares her experience of the day below.

We celebrated International Women's Day this year on the 5th of March 2024, with an inspiring conversation with young female entrepreneurs from our School of EEECS.

Dr Ayesha Abdul Majeed, a postdoctoral researcher in EEECS, has won an award in this year's TechWomen100.

On Tuesday 10 October we marked Ada Lovelace Day in EEECS by celebrating Women in STEM.

The School of EEECS is hosting an industry and research panel to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2023.

Celebrating this year's cohort of the annual EEECS Women and Minority Gender Leadership Programme.