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RisingWISE: An Enterprise Course By and For Women

RisingWISE is an established Oxbridge network inspired by EnterpriseWISE: designed by women, for women and delivered entirely by women. The programme Directors are Dr Shima Barakat, University of Cambridge and Dr Anne Miller, the University of Oxford (for bios please see the 'programme aims and eligibility section). APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2021/22 PROGRAMME WILL OPEN IN NOVEMBER.

RisingWISE 21/22 Flyer

Women are being urged to pursue careers in STEM subjects, where they often excel, but face a huge disparity in achieving success and leadership roles. 

RisingWISE has been developed to address this challenge, bringing together women early career researchers from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge to meet with women working in industry and commerce, who face similar challenges. Rather than existing in competition with each other, we have developed an innovative, collaborative programme with Cambridge, including working closely with industry to build mutual relationships, which aims to benefit STEM researcher women from both institutions, and all involved.

DR SHIMA BARAKAT, CO-DIRECTOR, RISINGWISE PROGRAMME:

Dr Shima Barakat is currently the Director of the Entrepreneurship for Sustainability Programme. She has held several posts at the University of Cambridge since 2007 including as the Entrepreneur­ship Education Advisor at the OPdA (now Postdoc Academy) where she brings her particular interest and expertise in sustainability and gender to develop entrepreneurship training and support for the postdoctoral and ECR community. She has recently been heavily involved in the €400M EU funded EIT Food project including shaping the strategic direction of both the education and venture creation activities at the proposal stage to secure the funding. 

DR ANNE MILLER, CO-DIRECTOR, RISINGWISE PROGRAMME:

Dr Anne Miller currently manages the MPLS Enterprise Programme at the University of Oxford. Previous roles include Associate Director of ESKTN, funded by Innovate UK, and principal environmental advisor at MAKE-UK, developing and delivering environmental training for the industry in partnership with IEMA, the professional institute for environmental practitioners. She has been an academic and group leader in Environmental Sciences for over 25 years, developing and delivering numerous innovative programmes in different institutions, and co-founding the Oxfordshire social enterprise consultancy EiE.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

RisingWISE is tailored specifically for women early career researchers working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in both academia and industry.

Additionally, each year we welcome a small number of DPhil students who are nearing the end of their studies and are thinking about the next steps.

Click here to apply for RisingWISE.