Inspiring Women in Engineering: Claire Garside
Farnell is celebrating International Women in Engineering Day by speaking to female professionals in the industry and highlighting the work they do. One lady they interviewed, Claire Garside is a co-founder from The Foundation for Digital Creativity and a postgraduate researcher at Leeds University. Her teaching background was broad as a Technology subject specialist in secondary education, before transitioning to link with special educational needs as a senior leader in school.
That goes some way to explain her interest in promoting inclusion and valuing diverse communities with current engineering activities. Her career progressed to working on large-scale EdTech initiatives, which involved designing and delivering professional development programmes for teachers to help children realise their potential and talent, particularly in the STEM fields.
Two years ago, The Foundation for Digital Creativity was established with a mission to advance the education of adults and children by removing barriers to learning through the ‘Internet of Curious Things’. Education programmes ignite inspiration, and boost self-efficacy to address imbalances in the engineering sector, as participants tackle real world social and environmental problems.
Recent projects with young people have leveraged pupil voice to communicate the climate emergency messages around air pollution, and focus on the significance of Industry 4.0 to make healthier decisions based on data and changes in behaviour.
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