Information Services organises an Ada Lovelace Day event every year, and this year was no different. Ada Lovelace Day was held on the 10th October 2023, and the event had nearly 30 attendees and was hugely successful.

The event consisted of a series of lightning talks, badge-making and colouring-in, and a Wikipedia editing event, see more details on the Ada Lovelace Day 2023 blog post.

Dr Melissa Highton, Director of LTW, opening Ada Lovelace Day 2023.

There were four speakers invited to talk , who were from a range of backgrounds, from robotics to the ethics of Artificial Intelligence. Each discussed their career path and their experience as a woman in STEM.

The colouring-in section of the event was a celebration of the launch of a Women in STEM colouring book, created by an intern within Learning, Teaching and Web (LTW) in Information Services. Read more about the colouring book.

The Wikipedia editing event was part of a series of monthly workshops called Women in Red, situated in LTW. The aim of these workshops is to write more articles about women, so that their names appear in blue on Wikipedia as links, rather than the red indicating that a page does not exist. Only 19% of all Wikipedia articles are about women, and we are committed to increasing this number.

(Photo by M Dundas, CC0)