Date/Time
Date(s) - 9 Oct 2024
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
CLC1.12 Learning Studio, Clerici Building, Oxford Brookes University
Categories
The BCS Oxfordshire is pleased to announce the 3rd annual Women in IT Event in Oxfordshire.
The hybrid event will be held on Wednesday 9th October the day after Ada Lovelace day with talks from academia and industry followed by a networking session.
This event hopes to bring together women from across all stages of their careers in technology, providing a forum to share experiences and promote the retention and empowerment of women in the IT industry.
This event will continue the success of the previous events in 2023 and 2022.
Talks will take place from 18:00 – 19:30 in hybrid, after which there will be an in person networking event with Tea, Coffee and Robots.
Current Speakers are:
Dr Samia Kamal
BSc (Hons), MSc, PGCE, PhD
Principal Lecturer for Student Experience
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/samia-kamal
Dr Samia Kamal is a National Teaching Fellow, awarded to individuals who have made an outstanding impact on student outcomes and the teaching profession. Samia has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to helping all her learners reach their full potential. She has been recognised on a national level for her work and impact across the Institution to inspire and influence her colleagues.
Samia in her role as Principal Lecturer for Student Experience is committed to exploring learning and teaching strategies suited to her discipline of Computer Science. Her championing of Computer Science pedagogy has helped to transform students’ experiences at Oxford Brookes University, especially women in STEM subjects, through her proactivism and advocacy for underrepresented groups.
Samia is also an Enterprise Education Fellow, where she leads enterprise and entrepreneurship education practices within the curriculum with appropriate adaptations for different disciplines, which provides an integrated approach to entrepreneurship, research, and enterprise within the curriculum and as part of our students’ broader development.
Tereza Malacova
Tereza has a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Data Analytics from Oxford Brookes University, which became the first step in her transition from humanities to STEM. Following the completion of her Masters Degree, she began teaching at Oxford Brookes in an Associate Lecturer role last year and has newly become a Senior Lecturer in Computing.
Tereza also has experience in 1-on-1 teaching as she has supervised a number of EPQ students, supporting their first steps into the world of research. Her own research interests tend to combine computer science and the humanities, considering issues of ethics, economics, or politics within computing applications. Her research is currently focused on sentiment analysis of newspaper headlines of articles concerning Ukraine, and analysing the resulting sentiments. She has previously explored racial biases in AI and hopes to continue engaging with issues of diversity and inclusion in the future.
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