Dawn Bonfield
Dawn Bonfield | |
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| Occupation | Materials engineer |
Dawn Bonfield is a materials engineer and founder and director of Towards Vision,[1] a company which aims to work towards a vision of diversity and inclusion in engineering. She is past president and former chief executive of the Women's Engineering Society (WES),[2][3] and in 2018 was an ambassador for the Year of Engineering,[4][5] promoting engineering careers through a roadshow aimed at meeting parents.
Career
[edit | edit source]A materials engineer by profession, training and experience - having studied materials science at Bath University - Bonfield has worked at AERE Harwell, Citroen Research Centre (Paris), British Aerospace (Bristol), MBDA (Stevenage), and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (London).[2]
In 2017, Bonfield was appointed a Visiting Professor of Inclusive Engineers at Aston University,[6] developing undergraduate content on inclusive engineering to equip the next generation of engineers with the skills and competencies they need to be inclusive. She also co-founded IncEng in 2017,[7] a platform to bring together under-represented groups in engineering.
Activism
[edit | edit source]Bonfield joined the council of the Women's Engineering Society in 2011 and was elected president in 2014.[8] She then became CEO in 2015.[2] Bonfield was the founder of National Women in Engineering Day in 2014 and in 2015 established the inaugural 50 Women in Engineering List with the Daily Telegraph.[2][9] She established and still runs the "Magnificent Women" schools outreach project and website,[10] and the Sparxx project to support STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) students.[11] She is a STEM ambassador who regularly promotes engineering and materials in schools.
Awards
[edit | edit source]In 2015 Bonfield won a WISE Award[12] and an Association Congress Award for the INWED campaign,[5] and in 2016 she won the SEMTA Skills Diversity Award.[13] In 2016 she was a Finalist in the Airbus GEDC Diversity Award,[14] and in 2017 she won the Women's Business Council STEM 'Starting Out' award.[15]
She was made MBE in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours list[16][17] for 'Services to the promotion of diversity in engineering'.
Membership of groups
[edit | edit source]Bonfield has been a member of the following groups:
- T Level panel member: Design, Development and Control[18]
- Member of the Department of Education Technical Education Inclusivity Working Group[citation needed]
- Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Group on Measurement[19][20][21]
- Member of Bath University Court[22]
- Patron at Alton Convent School, Hampshire[23]
- External Athena Swan Advisory Group Member, City University[24]
- Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professors' Management Group[25]
- Member of the Women’s Business Council STEM Starting Out Subgroup[26]
- Member of Women in Materials Committee of Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining[27]
References
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- Women materials scientists and engineers
- Living people
- Alumni of the University of Bath
- British materials scientists
- Women chief executives
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- Female fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- Fellows of the Women's Engineering Society
- Presidents of the Women's Engineering Society
- Fellows of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
- 21st-century British engineers
- 21st-century British women engineers