On Friday 7th March 2025 over 100 people gathered at J&M Murdoch site in Neilston for an unforgettable day celebrating International Women’s Day.
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Women in Transport Scotland Event: 'Re-Purposing Transport Assets'
The Scotland Hub of Women in Transport was delighted to host another technical webinar this October, looking at the fascinating topic of re-purposing transport assets.
Read MoreScotland Hub: Active Travel and Gender panel reception
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For International Women’s Day, the Scotland Hub organised a panel reception on the theme of Active Travel & Gender. Over 60 guests gathered in Arup’s brand new office in Edinburgh to hear from regional experts on the topic.
Read MoreAn Audience with Sarah Boyd
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The Scotland Regional Hub were honoured to welcome Sarah Boyd, Managing Director of Lothian for another instalment of our ‘An Audience With’ series
Read MoreAn afternoon at Polmadie Depot
One of our Scotland Hub members, Kristen Layne, tells us about her recent site visit at the Polmadie Depot, home of the Caledonian Sleeper. Our deep gratitude to the Alstom and Avanti teams for welcoming us to their depot for an unforgettable afternoon.
Read MoreWomen's Safety in Public Spaces
The Scotland Hub of Women in Transport are delighted to bring to you a conversation between two key officers at the The City of Edinburgh Council, Judith Cowie and Angela Voulgari.
Read MoreThe City of Edinburgh Council joins Women in Transport
We are thrilled to announce that the City of Edinburgh Council has joined the Scotland hub of Women in Transport as a corporate member.
Read MoreWomen in Transport celebrates Scotland Hub anniversary
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The Scotland hub for Women in Transport hosted celebrations at the Scottish Parliament for its second anniversary.
Read MoreScotland Hub Summer update
Over the past few months the volunteers of the hub have carried a number of activities on behalf of the Scotland Hub. In this blog article we’ve summarised what’s kept us busy and what’s next for us!
Read MoreGlasgow "Avenues Project" Walking Tour with Isla Jackson
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Earlier this week Women in Transport Scotland held our “Fascinating World of Street Design” event, which was both our first in-person gathering since our launch and also our first active travel focussed event. The event was coordinated by our Active Travel Lead, Becki Cox of Glasgow University, and we were privileged to be joined by WiT Scotland member Isla Jackson, structural engineer and Director at Civic Engineers, who led the walking tour along Sauchiehall Street.
Read MoreAn audience with Rajinder Pryor MBE
Last week we were delighted to welcome Rajinder Pryor for our second installment of ‘An audience with…’ organised by the Scotland hub. This was an event set up in collaboration with Women in Rail Scotland and we were thrilled to meet many new faces as well as welcome back familiar ones! The session was chaired by Diane Burke from Calmac and facilitated by Becki Cox from Glasgow University.
Read MoreAn audience with Joan Aitken
On 8th June 2021, 20 members of Women in Transport gathered for a lunchtime audience with Joan Aitken. The session, organised by the Scotland Hub, was chaired by Fiona Brown from Transport Scotland, and facilitated by Kattalin Atorragasti from Atkins. It was the first event since the Scotland Hub launch in March 2021 and the first installment of a series of ’an audience with…’ that the Scotland hub wants to initiate and pursue over the coming years.
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Scotland Hub Launch
We were delighted to welcome almost 100 people to our Women in Transport Scotland hub launch on 25th March. For out very first event, we aimed to provide a taster session of some activities that Women in Transport Scotland will facilitate in the future, which made for a packed but engaging programme. In this blog article, we aim to share with you what happened during the evening.
Read MoreScotland Hub: Meet the volunteers
Our volunteers are an integral part of our organisation and there are plenty of ways to get involved and help, from helping us making new connections, sharing ideas about future activities through to regular volunteering roles. We wouldn’t function without our dedicated team of volunteers that helps us run Women in Transport! Find out a bit more about volunteers and why they enjoy running the Scotland Hub of Women in Transport.
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Introducing the Scotland Hub sponsors
As the Scotland hub prepares for its very first event on 25th March at 17.00 we are delighted to introduce the three sponsors that are generously sponsoring our launch: Transport Scotland, Network Rail and Momentum Transport Consultancy.
Read MoreWomen in Transport launches in Scotland
Women in Transport are officially crossing the border with the establishment of an exciting new Scotland hub. With the recent launch of the Scotland National Transport Strategy and the eyes of the world on Glasgow as the COP26 conference meets in November, there has never been a more exciting or pivotal time for transport in Scotland.
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