‘You can’t have diverse video games without diverse people making them’ Since well before Lara Croft raided her first tomb in 1996, the video games industry has been weighed down by stereotypical images of gamers, often deservedly. For most of its history, players were widely seen as socially isolated, daylight-shy white males. But it’s now [...]

When I grow up I want to be… You might suppose that in today’s Insta world, where six of the seven largest companies are tech giants and Google has passed its 21st birthday, something digital, something tech, something 21st century might feature in the top career aspirations of today’s teenagers … but you’d be wrong.   [...]

Working better: three ways to improve labour market information for young peopleTechPathways London’s Caitlin McMillan spent a day at Nesta’s Working Better conference and came back with three key messages for improving careers information and advice in the 21st-century jobs market. Exploring labour market information at Nesta's Work Better event.   How we can anticipate [...]

Interview: George Ornbo, chief technology officer at Clearmatics WHAT DO YOU DO?   I'm the chief technology officer at Clearmatics, which is a core blockchain infrastructure company. We design and build protocols for permissioned  blockchain networks. The company was founded in 2015 and was originally a research collaboration between CEO Robert Sams and UBS. The [...]

Interview: Sèan Brazier, head of device management at the Parliamentary Digital Service DESCRIBE YOUR JOB   The Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS) supports all users at Parliament, across the country. My team (currently 11 people) manage the hardware catalogue (what computers, tablet and smartphones are available), getting operating systems onto these and applications onto those, plus [...]

Teaching games development: CPD with a plot twistTechPathways London's latest depth course offers face-to-face practical sessions and industry insight but also follow-up case studies to see the difference in the classroom Credit: CC #WOCinTech Chat In secondary classrooms, teachers face a challenge of how to meet the national curriculum requirements that “All pupils must have [...]

Interview: Bruce Waskett, head of UX at Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity DESCRIBE YOUR JOB It’s rather like being a circus ringmaster trying to understand what makes people happy and able to enjoy the show. Or possibly a performing seal.   I run the User Experience (UX) department for Great Ormond Street Charity and [...]

Careers talks make a difference – in unexpected waysWhat impact do careers talks have on GSCE students? You might be surprised! Credit: CC #WOCinTech Chat Connecting young people to the world of work through careers talks is generally assumed to result in greater knowledge about career paths but could it even change attitudes to education [...]