Meg Munn - the Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley - has become patron of the Women’s Engineering Society, and will be helping WES work towards increasing gender diversity in engineering.

HerSay  is a new media resource centre for female experts which aims to help women raise their own profile within their chosen fields and boost the number of inspirational female role models. Engineers wanted!

In a star studded ceremony at RAEng the first winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering were announced, in the hope of raising the profile of engineering in the UK. WES member Kate Bellingham carried out the online pre-award interviews.

The Women’s Engineering Society is seeking a new Editor for its quarterly journal The Woman Engineer, initially on a 6 month contract from 1st July 2013.