A collaboration with the Women’s Engineering Society to make a key contribution to a UK conference exploring women’s experiences during the Great War

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Prof Kosmala and Prof Kirk in collaboration with colleagues from the Women’s Engineering Society make a key contribution to a UK conference exploring women’s experiences during the Great War, 13^th to 14^th April 2018 at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley.

The conference, Voices of Women in the Great War and its Aftermath, is organised by the Women’s History Network in Midlands 

The panel entitled: ‘The Emerging Voice of the Woman Engineer in WW1 and Post War Periods’  examines some outstanding women engineers of the period who emerged from the war to become leaders in the movement to allow women to be professional engineers.

The panel is chaired by Dr Sarah Peers, Deputy President of the Women's Engineering Society. The panellists include Professor Katherine Kirk and Professor Katarzyna Kosmala both of UWS, engineering historian Dr Nina Baker, author and biographer Henrietta Heald, and Anne Locker, Library and Archives manager at the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Professor Katarzyna Kosmala said: “Many women gained technical and professional engineering skills in WW1, some rising to positions of considerable responsibility, yet their contribution continues largely invisible. We are delighted that our multidisciplinary research collaboration with the Women’s Engineering Society will see the delivery of this timely conference panel.”