Florence Kirkby BFWG President 1997-2000
Florence invested her efforts for over half a century in the professional development of women in society and had a deep commitment to broader issues in society including care of the less privileged.
- She had a high ranking career when opportunities were few
- Was an amazing role model who made a priceless contribution to BFWG
- Was recently elected the oldest councillor in Britain when she vowed to give the elderly a voice.
BFWG needs you!
What do Marie Stopes (1880-1958, paleobotanist and family planning pioneer), Eleanor Rathbone (1872-1946, MP for the Combined English Universities ) and many promiment women from 1907 to date have in common?
They were or are all members of BFWG, the British Federation of Women graduates
(formerly the British Federation of University Women).
Make it your New Year Resolution to join one of the country’s leading 6-0 Organisations which fought for women’s suffrage and still fights for women’s rights and empowers women at home and overseas through education. Affiliated to GWI (Graduate Women International, which has UN consultative status and celebrates its Centenary this year) and UWE (University Women of Europe), you’ll have an international voice and can and will make a difference and will have contact with 54 sister organisations Worldwide.
The BFWG, through its two charities, is one of the largest providers of doctoral scholarships in the country, on the grounds of both need and on academic merit.
Membership benefits also include involvement in and access to projects (this year’s includes a research project interviewing working and retired academics), lectures, seminars such as the popular, annual Westminster Seminar sponsored by a peer or MP, travel, volunteering, a Research Presentations Day, a magazine published three times a year and social events at local level organised by the Associations.
BFWG brings women together locally, nationally and internationally.
Find friends, connections, stimulus and support wherever you are.
Be part of it and us!
British Federation of Women Graduates Featured in Girls Who STEM’s “The Best STEM Organizations For Girls & Women
Women in Academic Life – their stories then and now
We need YOUR HELP please, with a BFWG Research Project to undertake research into the lives of women in academic employment and their experiences.
Much discussion occurs and articles are written over the lack of equity in earnings between women and men, the burdens and expectations placed on women with families, whose ability to move jobs is limited by their partner’s position and by sexism in the workplace.
We invite Independents to be part of this project.
A volunteer from Southern Region Independents is requested to be part of this exciting project.
You do not need to be a member to apply for these Awards.
It’s not too late!
Nominations are now open for GWI positions to be decided in 2019 at the Centenary Conference in Geneva.
If you would like to know more about the BFWG, please watch our ‘Meet the Management Team’ video.
Would you like to help?
The British Federation of Women Graduates brings women together locally, nationally and internationally and helps women worldwide to exercise their right to education and economic independence.
Our Next Event
Winchester Coffee morning with bring & buy
BFWG Celebration of Women Getting the Vote
at Chancellors Hotel, The University of Manchester September 2018
Careers and Networking Event – All Welcome
7th February 2019
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
What is the “British Federation of Women Graduates” (BFWG) and what can it offer you?
What it’s like to work in Drug Discovery within the Pharmaceutical Industry
Room 5.132, Franklin-Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus
Please for further information and to take part in this research please contact Gillian Hilton VP gillian.hilton@bfwg.org.uk
The BFWG is a diverse
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Janet Bultitude is a Lecturer in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology at the University of Bath. Her research investigates how sensations and cognitive functions are affected by conditions such as neurological damage or chronic pain, and how these conditions can be treated.
Dr Janet Bultitude
Secretary to the Scholarship Committee. Previous winner of the Ruth Bowden Prize for Medical Research.
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Esmie
We first supported esmie when she was at school, we continued when she went to Zomba university to read economics and through her studies for her Masters. She works in the Malawi bank. Now her employer is supporting her for her PHD at Loughborough university, she’s...
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A Coffee Morning With A Difference
A plan to visit a member, who had recently moved to Oxfordshire, soon expanded from a coffee morning into a fascinating day out. 10 members from Sutton Coldfield set off in a minibus on a lovely Autumn day. Coffee and homemade cakes were very welcome on our arrival,...
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Call for Proposals for 2019 Bina Roy Partners in Development Funding
Graduate Women International (GWI) is pleased to announce the launch of the 2019 Bina Roy Partners in Development (BRPID) programme. GWI is maintaining the competitive framework used in the last round. Projects must once again meet specific, time-bound, measurable...
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Sybil Campbell Collection is now an Independent Trust
On 1st January 2011 the Sybil Campbell Collection Trust became independent. Although very closely linked to BFWG it is now owned by the Sybil Campbell Collection Trustees. At a special meeting on 11th July 2010 members of Executive, as Directors of BFWG, voted unanimously that the Sybil Campbell Collection Trust should be separated from the Scholarship Trust and become a separate charity.
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GWI 33rd Triennial and Centenary Conference
‘Peace through Education’
Call for Workshops
This is the First and Only Call for Workshops on one or more of the 5 sub-themes for the Conference.
Workshop date:: 27 JULY 2019
Deadline for submitting Workshop abstracts: FRIDAY, 11 JANUARY 2019
GWI 33rd Triennial and Centenary Conference
PEACE THROUGH EDUCATION
Geneva, 25 – 28 July 2019
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