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Call for candidates:
Treasurer for UWE Board
The UWE Board is pleased to invite applications from candidates for the UWE Board. As our Treasurer elected in June 2016 has three years mandate, the UWE Board will have a vacancy for the post of Treasurer.
2019 AGM documents
The 2019 AGM documents are now available – members wishing to look at these documents should log in to the members page and scroll down to members documents section.
2019 BFWG AGM Lincoln July 5th-7th
(2020 BFWG AGM at Denman College July 10th-12th)
The UWE Meet and Greet in Dundee 17th-19th May 2019
The theme was “My Identity My Story” and the event was organised by GWS (Graduate Women Scotland).
Application for President Elect
We have received an application for the position of President Elect.
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Our latest Newsletter. Please login to read it in full
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
Greater London event: Representation of women in the theatre
Opportunities
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Please log in and visit the Members page to find out about current Opportunites and Grants on offer.
British Federation of Women Graduates Featured in Girls Who STEM’s “The Best STEM Organizations For Girls & Women”
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!
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.
Grants
5000 SEK Scholarship for Swedish students abroad
- Amount: 5000 SEK per scholarship
- Applicant: Swedish student abroad and students studying in Sweden
- Students interested in environmental sustainability or entrepreneurship
Read more about the scholarships at our websites:
https://www.greenmatch.se/greenmatch-stipendium#eng
https://www.expertvalet.se/expertvalet-stipendium#eng
Application deadline: 31st of October 2019
Young entrepreneurs are emerging more than ever, and Market Inspector are eager to play a part in developing more of them.
We have announced our decision to offer a £1,000 scholarship to students who have planned to start their own business. We would like to empower young entrepreneurs who, along with education, have nurtured their entrepreneurial dreams.
Details about the application, prerequisites, essays and deadlines are available on the Market Inspector website at Market Inspector – Young Entrepreneur Scholarship.
Application deadline: 31st of October 2019
You do not need to be a member to apply for these Awards.
If you would like to know more about the BFWG, please watch our ‘Meet the Management Team’ video.
The BFWG is a diverse
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Dr Lucy Thorne, winner of the BFWG Centenary Scholarship, which greatly supported her through the writing up of her thesis for her PhD.
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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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