Agenda

❑Outreach – why it’s important

❑Background to My Skills My Life

❑Overview of My Skills My Life

❑How you can get involved

❑Next steps

Why outreach

❑Girls’ default mode of thinking is STEM = MALEhttps://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/what-we-learn-from-50-years-of-asking-children-to-draw-scientists/556025/

❑Scientist was girls’ 5th most popular dream jobhttps://industrialstrategy.blog.gov.uk/2019/03/14/a-career-in-science-is-now-a-dream-jobs-for-girls/

❑STEM is difficult (60% of girls) or more for the boys (47%)http://www.cityam.com/224593/most-girls-think-stem-subjects-are-too-difficult-them-learn

❑Girls’ interest peaks at 11 but wanes by 15https://blogs.microsoft.com/firehose/2017/03/01/microsoft-study-in-europe-reveals-when-and-why-girls-interest-in-stem-fields-begins-to-wane/

❑Make a differencehttps://www.ccl.org/blog/what-women-want-work/

Outreach is important!

Why outreachhttps://industrialstrategy.blog.gov.uk/2019/03/14/a-career-in-science-is-now-a-dream-jobs-for-girls/

Why we need girls at the start of the Pipeline

❑Skills shortage – costing £1.5bn per yearhttps://www.stem.org.uk/stem-skills-shortage

❑1 in 5 girls studying A Level physicshttps://www.wisecampaign.org.uk/statistics/core-stem-graduates-2018/

❑26% of core STEM graduates are female❑GCSE computing – gender gap – fifth of entrants are

femalehttps://www.wisecampaign.org.uk/whose-skills-whose-future-on-the-digital-skills-pipeline/

❑Tech jobs increase – 175,000 by mid 2020s.

Benefits of outreach programmes

❑Mutual benefit for companies and girlshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4742226/

❑Better gender diversity is good for businesshttps://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/HR/HR02200.pdf

❑5 times less likely to become NEEThttps://www.educationandemployers.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/media_release_neets_-_02.02.2012_final.pdf

❑How STEM skills are used in workhttps://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/e1c2517a-3117-4ef4-b818-870cfdcd8677/1/

❑Girls are far more likely than boys to want to see physics being applied in context

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10628596/Outreach-projects-have-failed-to-engage-girls-in-physics.html

Impact of outreach – WISE research

1 (Very likely to take at least one STEM

subject)

2 3 4 5 Grand Total

1 (Very interested

in STEM)

23.8% 41.3% 30.2% 4.8% 0.0% 100.0%

2 11.2% 37.1% 44.9% 4.5% 2.2% 100.0%

3 0.0% 28.6% 55.6% 12.7% 3.2% 100.0%

4 7.9% 22.4% 51.3% 14.5% 3.9% 100.0%

5 3.9% 19.6% 37.3% 33.3% 5.9% 100.0%

6 3.4% 10.3% 41.4% 34.5% 10.3% 100.0%

7 0.0% 4.0% 28.0% 28.0% 40.0% 100.0%

Grand Total 8.6% 27.3% 43.2% 15.2% 5.8% 100.0%

Interest expressed in STEM before doing the Personality Type activity compared with desire to take at least one STEM subject following the activity(Rows: 1-7 where 1 = very interested in STEM, 7 = not at all interested in STEM; Columns: 1-5 where 1 = very likely to take at least one STEM subject, 5 = not at all likely to take at least one STEM subject)

Background

❑‘Not for People Like Me’ – Original research –2014•Girls – adjectives•Boys – verbs•What scientists ‘DO’•Self identity – STEM-identityhttps://wisecampaign.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/not_for_people_like_me-full-report.pdf

Background

❑People Like Me resource – 2015•Adjectives•12 types – Science Council

•Paper based quiz•Opening doors presentation•Bespoke packs•Training

My Skills My Life - Development

❑Open university evaluation – 2018•Quiz too long•Vocabulary• Types of Scientist•Case Studies•Reach

https://wisecampaign.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/People-LIke-Me-Evaluation-Report_June18-1.pdf

My Skills My Life - Development

❑1000 girls in 25 schools across the UK

❑Fun, interactive and quick

❑Role models increased

❑Pathways

❑Linked companies, schools, parents, teachers and girls

❑New types – endorsed by the Science Council

My Skills My Life -Development

What jobs have you heard of?

My Skills My Life

After you’ve created your character, the quiz begins!

Drag your character to the answer you feel best

represents you.

You can click on ‘view’ to read

about your personality types

in more detail!

Or…

Scroll down to see the other

personality types!

When viewing your personality types, you can view role models who also have that personality type.

If you scroll down further, you can also see job roles which suit this personality

type too!

…There are 6 sub-headings with answers to different

questions…

If you want to browse the other role models, click ‘Explore’ in the side bar.

By using the filter option here, you can filter by company, job role or

personality type.

My Skills My Life

You can search by

Job role, Company or Role model

Company Profiles

This is what a company

profile looks like…

These boxes are where

the information you

have provided us with

will go.

To create your own profile, you will need to click ‘My

Role Model Profile’, followed by ‘Actions’ and then

‘Edit’.

STEM ambassador quote:

• Rosie Mawdsley – STEM Ambassador Hub Manager for Greater Manchester“I feel the new format is so clear and straightforward that more ambassadors will feel confident to lead the sessions themselves. They have always been interested to support as role models but it would be great to see more of them setting up and running their own sessions at work and at local schools/groups. I think the new format will help to achieve this increase.”

Company Profiles

On the profiles, there is also

space for useful links and for

photos provided by you.

Towards the bottom of the company profile page, you can view all of the role

models who are linked to that particular company.

The company logo will

then appear at the top of

all role model profiles that

are linked to it.

Network Rail – Case Study

National Science & Media Museum –Case Study

National Science & Media Museum –Case Study – Feedback

“People’s jobs that I have never heard and their

amazing jobs and really interesting things that you

can do when you’re adults.”

“It was engaging.”

“I liked the activity where we found out our personality type.”

“Learning about new jobs.”

“Meeting the role models.”

“Loved The personality test.”

“Finding out about different jobs.”

“Meeting different people.”

“That it was interactive.”

“Learning about jobs I’ve never heard of before.”

BAE Systems and 1851 Trust

8th March 2019

BAE systems and 1851 Trust8th March 2019 - Feedback

‘I learnt about careers that suit my personality’ – Student from Bourne Community College

‘I leant which careers might suit me’ – Student from Bourne Community College

‘I enjoyed finding about different STEM careers’- Student from Ryde Academy

‘I loved my visit, it really inspired me’ – Student from Ryde Academy

My Skills My Life -Training

• Unconscious Bias

• Background and Delivery

• Additional resources

• E-learning and F2F

• Launch 14th May @ the WISE Conference

• Locate a deliverer

Sponsor companies

• Goldman Sachs Gives

• BAE Systems

• Network Rail

• UK Space Agency

• Broadcom

• National Skills Academy for Rail

Costs ❑Company Profile

• FREE for Core + members• Online members = £1000 + VAT• Non-members = £2500 + VAT

❑Role model profile on platform – FREE ❑Training

• Online(30)• F2F (15)

• £2500+ VAT (members)• £3000 + VAT (non-members)

• Individuals - £150 + VAT

Any questions?

• Quiz - Quick, easy and engaging

• Role Models – Sign up and share with others

• Company – Add your profile – contact K.watson@wisecampaign.org.uk

• Training – access training – register your interest –k.watson@wisecampaign.org.uk

• WISE Conference – see resource in action

• Help us reach 200,000 girls in 5 years