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Electrifying Women: Understanding the Long History of Women in Engineering.

激励女性：了解女性在工程领域的悠久历史。

基本信息

批准号：
AH/S012702/1
负责人：
Graeme Gooday
金额：
$ 10.27万
依托单位：
University of Leeds
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2019 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS012702%2F1
关键词：
Electrifying Women Understanding Long History

项目摘要

This project promotes public awareness of women's historical participation in engineering so as to support the UK's Women's Engineering Society (WES) centenary commemorations in 2019. We aim especially to support the WES centenary programme theme of 'Remembering the Past'.The WES centenary comes at a time when recruitment of women to engineering positions in the UK is exceptionally challenging, with women only constituting 11% of UK engineers, compared to 47% on average for other professions, and associated challenges in diversity. This situation is exacerbated by the remarkably resilient - yet inaccurate view - that women's place in engineering has no real historically-embedded position. So like WES we will deploy stories of women's past work in engineering to help normalise the expectation that women today can also become professional engineers for a full career, working against unhelpful myths that women have been systematically excluded from engineering in the past. Our project will complement WES's centenary activities by focusing upon women's participation in engineering well prior to WES's foundation, and the long-term ramifications thereof into the WES era, in activities that draw upon the PI's AHRB/AHRC supported outputs Domesticating Electricity (2008), and co-authored Patently Contestable (2013). We thus aim toi) enhance public understanding of women active in British engineering before WES's foundation in 1919, and indeed before World War 1ii)show how WES's role in promoting women in engineering drew significantly upon that 'pre-history'iii) highlight how women's historic work in engineering becomes more visible if we reject individualist myths that it was accomplished only by individual (male) heroesiv) show the value of longer term historical evidence in addressing the current concern about UK women's comparatively low participation rate in engineering: in redeeming this situation there is in fact a long tradition of women's participation to build upon, rather than any new ground to break. Our primary activity will be a series of lectures across the UK followed by discussion and with audiences. This will raise awareness of women working in pre-First World War engineering using stories from Domesticating Electricity's exploration of spousal support roles, especially Alice Gordon, contrasted with Caroline Haslett as an example of an independent engineer. These lectures will take place in museums, libraries, universities, and Heritage Open Days.Our second major activity will be to create an 'Electrifying Women' blog and social media profile which will be at the heart of a social media campaign run by project members. Blog posts will highlight both particular cameos of other women working in electrical engineering before WES Our third activity, inspired by our previous collaboration with the IET and WES, is to organise with a professional Wikimedian (Alice White) dedicated wikithons to create, enhance and promote pages for the women involved in engineering before the rise of the Women's Engineering Society. Our fourth activity is to run creative writing sessions as follow-up events for lectures, with audiences enabled thereby to explore fresh ways of bringing to life the rarely documented work of engineering spouses e.g. through fictional diaries that extrapolate from extant fragmentary sources.Our fifth activity is to set up a project website of resources and links to help meet all the objectives outlined above to facilitate further engagement in creative activities that can promote better historical understanding among a wide-range of audiences both inside academia and in the wider public sphere.Our sixth activity will be to support a group of Theatre and Performance Students at the University of Leeds in producing a musical theatre production titled 'Electrifying Women', devised using our project materials. A recording of the performance will be shared on Youtube.

该项目旨在提高公众对女性参与工程的历史认识，以支持2019年英国女性工程学会（WES）百年纪念活动。我们的目标是支持WES百年纪念活动的主题“铭记过去”。WES成立一百周年之际，英国招聘女性担任工程职位非常具有挑战性，女性仅占英国工程师的11%，而其他职业的平均比例为47%，这也带来了多样性方面的挑战。这种情况被一种非常有弹性但不准确的观点所加剧，即女性在工程领域的地位并没有真正的历史根基。因此，就像WES一样，我们将利用女性过去在工程领域工作的故事，帮助使人们的期望正常化，即今天的女性也可以成为职业工程师，以实现完整的职业生涯，反对过去女性被系统地排除在工程领域之外的无益的神话。我们的项目将补充WES的百年纪念活动，重点关注女性在WES成立之前参与工程，以及其对WES时代的长期影响，这些活动利用PI的AHRB/AHRC支持的产出《驯化电力》（2008年），并共同撰写了《专利竞赛》（2013年）。因此，我们的目标是提高公众对1919年WES成立之前活跃在英国工程领域的女性的了解；以及在第二次世界大战之前（ii）显示WES在促进女性参与工程方面的作用如何显著地借鉴了“史前”（iii）强调如果我们拒绝个人主义的神话，即只有个人（男性）英雄才能完成工程，女性在工程方面的历史性工作如何变得更加明显（iv）显示长期历史证据的价值，以解决当前对英国女性相对较低的工程参与率的担忧：要扭转这种局面，实际上需要建立妇女参与的悠久传统，而不是打破任何新的基础。我们的主要活动是在英国各地举办一系列讲座，然后与观众进行讨论。这将通过《驯化电力》一书中对配偶支持角色的探索，提高人们对一战前从事工程工作的女性的认识，尤其是爱丽丝·戈登（Alice Gordon），与作为独立工程师的卡罗琳·哈斯利特（Caroline Haslett）形成对比。这些讲座将在博物馆、图书馆、大学和遗产开放日举行。我们的第二项主要活动将是创建一个“激励女性”博客和社交媒体简介，这将是项目成员开展的社交媒体活动的核心。我们的第三个活动，受到我们之前与IET和WES合作的启发，是与一个专业的维基人（Alice White）一起组织一个专门的维基马拉松，在女性工程协会兴起之前，为参与工程的女性创建、增强和推广页面。我们的第四个活动是举办创意写作会议，作为讲座的后续活动，使观众能够探索新的方式，将很少记录的工程配偶的工作带入生活，例如通过从现存的碎片来源推断的虚构日记。我们的第五项活动是建立一个项目网站，提供资源和链接，以帮助实现上述所有目标，促进进一步参与创造性活动，促进学术界和更广泛的公众对历史的更好理解。我们的第六项活动是支持利兹大学的一群戏剧和表演专业的学生制作一部名为“电气化妇女”的音乐剧，使用我们的项目材料设计。演出的录音将在Youtube上分享。