Articles, Awards and Photos

 Articles & Blogs

• Applying Equality Through Sustainable Development, ICE, 8 March 2020
• Applying Behavioural Insights to Increase Girls' Uptake of STEM Subjects at A Level, October 2018
• Better Apprenticeships, July 2018
• World Federation of Engineering Organisations, May 2018
• Be Militant, Each in Your Own Way, Linkedin February 2018
• Interview with Dawn Bonfield, Founder of INWED, Gradtouch, 23 June 2017
• Why inclusivity is about all of us in engineering, ICE Thinks, 13 March 2017
• The Engineering Gap, BBC Online, 7 November 2016
• Lack of Gender Balance Threatens Engineering Targets, Modern Building Services, 6 July 2016
• Women Engineers Needed to Address Skills Shortage, Electronics Weekly, 23 June 2016
• Women - UK Construction Needs You, Training Journal, 30 June 2016
• Meet the Next Generation of Women Engineers, The Guardian, 3 May 2016
• RETURN: Career Break Support for Professional Engineering Institution Members, March 2016
• 50/50: Towards a Diverse and Sustainable Future, Founders Day Lecture March 2016, University of Bath
• Diversity Report Points the Way for More Gender Inclusivity at the ICE, New Civil Engineer February 2016
• Dawn Bonfield: Featured Person of the Month, Materials World, 3 November 2015
• How Increasing Diversity Gives Companies and Edge, The Daily Telegraph Business Reporter, 25 October 2015
• Disruptive Diversity, a report for ICE by Dawn Bonfield
• Female Engineers: Equalising the Path to a Career at the Forefront of Science, The Independent, 19 October 2015
• UK Needs Over One Million New Engineers and Technicians, The Independent, 21 June 2015
• Women Engineers: Where are they? Huffington Post, June 2015
• Bucking the Trend, The Engineer, June 2015
• National Women in Engineering Day, Ingenia, June 2015
• More women need to become engineers, and that means letting girls know it's possible, Quartz, 24 June 2015
• Women in Engineering Article for Process Industry Informer, May 2015
• Re-writing history to remember real-life unsung engineering and construction heroines, Womanthology February 18th 2015
• Making a Difference: Volunteers and Charities around the World- in pictures, The Guardian, 28 April 2015
• The forgotten women who helped build Waterloo Bridge, The Observer 15 February 2015
• Society's view of IT workers as 'unwashed nerds' stops women entering industry, 9 February 2015, v3.co.uk
• National Day Aims to Boost Number of Female Engineers, The Indpendent, 23 June 2014
• Letter to The Times, 26 January 2014
• Passing the Maternity Test, The Engineer November 2014 (p.5)
• Getting Girls into Engineering: Lighting the Spark, November 2014
• Women in Engineering, Are We Doing Enough? Enhance Issue 3, Nov 2014
• Voice of Diversity, Airbus/GEDC Global Award 14 November 2014
• Women in the oil and gas industry, Female First, September 2014
• Breaking through the glass ceiling, Maintenance online July 2014
• Women in Engineering 8 page supplement, Birmingham Post, 26 June 2014
• Engineering a change in education, Centre for Education, Research and Practice, AQA
• Women in Engineering supplement, Media Planet, The Independent, 23 June 2014
• Girls Can't What? BBC News 23 June 2014
• Change of Gear, Drive to Recruit Women Engineers, The Daily Telegraph, 23 June 2014
• One for the History Books, i Newspaper, 23 June 2014
• National Day Aims to Boost Number of Female Engineers, The Telegraph, June 2014
• Engineering Women, AMPS Power 2014 Issue 2
• WW1: Women Engineers in the First World War, 16 June 2014 E&T Magazine
• More to be done on gender balance in the oil and gas sector, HR Magazine, 24 June 2014
• National Women in Engineering Day Launched, Whimfing 6 June 2014
• Changing the Mix, New Civil Engineer, 18 February 2014
• Driving Diverse Thought: March 2014, Womanthology
• Taking Steps for a Brighter Future, The Independent December 2013
• Women in STEM, MEDIAPLANET supplement, The Independent December 2013
• It's Time to Deliver, The Engineer 4 November 2013
• Which Woman Should Go on a Banknote Next, BBC, 24 June 2013
• The Unchanging Status of Women Engineers over the Past 90 Years, E&T Online 14 October 2013

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Awards and honours

• 2020 Recipient of the Isabel Hardwich Award, Women's Engineering Society
• 2020 AcademicInfluence Top 40 Most Influential Women in STEM
• 2019 Named Number 2 in Top 100 Influential Women in Engineering list, Financial Times / Inclusive Boards
• 2019 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Engineering, Bath University
• 2017 Women's Business Council Starting out in STEM Award
• 2016 MBE received for 'Services to the promotion of diversity in engineering'.
• 2016 finalist of the 2016 GEDC Airbus Global Diversity Award
• 2016 SEMTA award for Diversity in Engineering

• 2015 WISE Award for best diversity campaign
• 2015 Association Congress Award for the National Women in Engineering Day campaign

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