Steph McGovern launches scholarship

Broadcaster, journalist and author Steph McGovern has launched a scholarship programme aimed at increasing the number of women in engineering.

The Steph McGovern Women in Engineering Scholarship will provide support for every first-year full-time female engineering student at Teesside University with £44,000 of funding from Enginuity, the engineering skills charity.

Before starting her career as a broadcaster, the Middlesbrough-born presenter worked as an engineer at Black & Decker where she won the Young Engineer for Britain award at the age of 19.

McGovern said: “I can’t tell you how delighted I am to help make this happen. If we want to make the world a better place for everyone, we need more women involved in the designing, making and running of it, and to me that means more female engineers.”

Read more about the gender diversity skills gap in engineering here.