Chai & Chat Engineering

By: Dipalee Jukes Era Shah Malika Kapasi
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  • We are Dipalee Jukes, Era Shah and Malika Kapasi and we are all inextricably linked by being female, south asian engineers. We all work in the UK construction industry and up until recently, we felt like complete outliers in our professions. Reason being, we quite literally couldn’t see other people who looked like us at work.

     

    When the three of us met for the first time at London Build 2021, we instantly connected and had a shared passion and purpose to use our platforms to serve other women. Fast forward several months, a podcast was born, combining our love of engineering, female leadership and allyship, the power of role models, our cultural heritage and our genuine love of tea!

     

    The aim of this podcast is to highlight and bring awareness to the current lack of minority ethnic female engineers in the Engineering and Construction industry in the UK. We want this podcast to raise the profile of the amazing women engineers out there in our communities to create more role models young girls and women can aspire to. We believe this starts with changing perceptions of what an engineer looks like.


    This podcast will share insights and back stories from different guests, all of whom are women from diverse backgrounds, working in the UK Construction Industry. We will deep dive into their upbringings, their challenges, their ambitions for the future, all told from their perspectives. Our worlds might look the same from the outside, but our journeys to get here are all so very different.

     

    This is the Chai & Chat Engineering podcast.


    Music Credit:

    Zurna (Instrumental) by Sapajou | https://soundcloud.com/sapajoubeats

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  • #010 Chai & Chat Engineering - Season 1 Reflections

    #010 Chai & Chat Engineering - Season 1 Reflections
    Jun 27 2023

    Friday 23rd June marked International Women in Engineering Day and in honour of this day, we've released our final episode of Season 1 of the Chai & Chat Engineering podcast.


    In this episode we reflect on our journey over the past 18 months, along with sharing the highlights from conversations we’ve had with all the incredible women in Season 1. We talk about everything from fashion, cultural backgrounds, how to follow your passions, build confidence to building bridges, quite literally, and how we can support parents to stay in the industry when juggling the demands of bringing up young children. 


    Thank you to everyone who has supported us on this journey so far, especially to those women who have taken part, we really appreciate you. We are excited to see where the future takes us, we will be busy planning Season 2 over the summer, so keep your eyes peeled later on in the year!


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    20 mins
  • #009 Chai & Chat Engineering with Prof. Anusha Shah

    #009 Chai & Chat Engineering with Prof. Anusha Shah
    Mar 8 2023

    Anusha is a Senior Director for Resilient Cities and UK Climate Adaptation Leader at Arcadis. Currently she is seconded to EKFB consortium of the HS2 programme and is working as a Senior Director for Environmental Consents. An ICE Fellow, she is a Senior Vice President at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and President -Elect for 2023. Anusha is also a Non-Executive Director at the Met Office, UK and Visiting Professor at King’s College London and University of Edinburgh. She was awarded Honorary Professorship by University of Wolverhampton for Knowledge Transfer and an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering by University of East London for her services to address Climate Change.


    Anusha has over 22 years’ experience in designing, managing and leading projects and programmes both in the UK and internationally. She has been a chair and also a judge on various industry awards and competitions including OFWAT Water breakthrough Innovation fund challenge. A recipient of several awards including 2020 - Top 50 UK Women Engineers Sustainability and CECA – Inspiring Change Award, she was recognised by Climate Reframe as one of the UK’s leading BAME voices on climate change.



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    40 mins
  • #008 Chai & Chat Engineering with Tanushri Burrows

    #008 Chai & Chat Engineering with Tanushri Burrows
    Feb 7 2023

    Tan is a project manager with 7+ years of experience in project delivery roles. After making a big leap from the fashion industry to engineering she has successfully managed and is administering a variety of projects across the transport industry. Tan has also had the privilege of being nominated for several industry awards and securing a place on Skanska’s mirror leadership team. 


    Having taken an unconventional route into the industry and experiencing the challenges many young women face within the industry, Tan is passionate about sharing her experiences to inspire others to give the industry a chance and for us all to learn what we can do better to ensure construction better reflects the diversity outside of our industry! 



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    35 mins
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