Social mobility in engineering: for anyone, from anywhere

The Royal Academy of Engineering and The Royal Society of Edinburgh will be once again hosting a joint annual event entitled 'Social mobility in engineering: for anyone, from anywhere'.

In order for engineers to serve all of society with their work, we need to ensure that the profession is accessible to all of society. How can we build, promote and improve different routes into engineering to ensure it is truly open to anyone, from anywhere?

President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Professor Sir Jim McDonald GBE FREng FRSE, will join this discussion with other special guest speakers from a variety of engineering backgrounds to explore how the profession can be more inclusive to different communities, and how building teams of different people with different perspectives is vital to a thriving engineering sector. From university degrees to apprenticeships, from family businesses to multinational corporations, the panel will share stories from their very different career journeys, and explore opportunities to equip more people from different places with the skills needed to solve local, regional, and global challenges.

This event is designed to bring together industry professionals and encourage new thinking, ideas and conversations.

Programme

Filming and recording notice

Please note this event will be recorded and published on the Royal Academy of Engineering website. Your video will be off and your account will be muted throughout the entire event. Only the speakers and presentations will be visible on your screen. 

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Accessibility

It is very important to the Royal Academy of Engineering that our events are accessible to all. If you have any accessibility requirements, please contact the Events team more than one week in advance of this event so that necessary arrangements can be made. Contact details: [email protected]

Further information about accessibility at Prince Philip House can be found at: https://raeng.org.uk/about-us/accessibility.  

Diversity monitoring form

The Academy is committed to building an inclusive economy that works for everyone. To help us achieve this, we would like to collect soma basic anonymous data about the event attendees. If you would like to help, please complete the diversity monitoring form by logging into your user account on our website and completing ‘Update my D&I data’ .