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Transport stories: Sarah Cauldwell

June 30, 2025 in Member Post
Transport stories: Sarah Cauldwell

Sarah Cauldwell is a Senior Planner at Arup and volunteers for the Women in Transport West Midlands Hub.

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Transport stories: Finding a place for yourself

June 23, 2025 in Member Post
Transport stories: Finding a place for yourself

Long-time Women in Transport ally Neil Pepper MBE shares a personal story of the difficulties around landing in a career role that doesn’t play to your strengths, and the courage it takes to get out of it.

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Tags: 20th stories, workplace safety, male allies

What Women in Transport means to you, our members

June 23, 2025 in Event
What Women in Transport means to you, our members

Earlier this month, we launched our 20th anniversary celebrations with a two-day showpiece event at the London Transport Museum. Over the two days, we worked with Inside Out Group to capture what Women in Transport means to our members — now and over the last 20 years.

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Introducing the Women in Transport East Midlands Hub: A New Community for Connection, Support and Growth

June 16, 2025 in Insight

We’re delighted to announce the launch of the Women in Transport East Midlands Hub – a dynamic new network hub created to bring people across the transport sector together. Whether you work in rail, road, aviation, logistics, active travel, policy, or any part of this diverse industry – this hub is for you.

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Scotland Hub Event: Celebrating female leadership in Scotland’s transport industries for our 20 year anniversary

June 16, 2025 in Event
Scotland Hub Event: Celebrating female leadership in Scotland’s transport industries for our 20 year anniversary

A panel of the most influential women in the Scottish transport industry came together on 5th June at the Scotland Hub’s Women in Transport’s 20th anniversary event, co-hosted with Women in Rail Scotland.

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Women in Transport is thrilled to announce new partnership with Littlepay

June 12, 2025 in Insight

Women in Transport is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Littlepay, the world’s leading and most trusted provider of payment infrastructure for transit and mobility. Set out in 2016 with a vision to make contactless bank card acceptance faster, cheaper, and less complex for the public transit sector.

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Women in Transport’s Motherhood Penalty Whitepaper Highly Commended at CIHT 2025 Awards

June 11, 2025 in Insight

We’re thrilled to announce that our Navigating Parenthood whitepaper has been highly commended for the CIHT 2025 Award for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion! This recognition highlights the vital work of the Women in Transport Intersectionality workstream. The whitepaper tackles the challenges faced by working parents—especially mothers—in the transport sector. Our whitepaper exposes the motherhood penalty, where mothers earn on average 7% less than non-mothers, and offers practical solutions to close this gap.

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Women In Transport Members Insight: Stacy Dowding

June 11, 2025 in Member Post

Women In Transport Members Insight from Stacy Dowding.

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Women in Transport: Team Member Insight - James Hogg

June 11, 2025 in Team Profile

Women in Transport: Team Member Insight from our Marketing Lead James Hogg.

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Transport stories: Build your personal support system

June 10, 2025 in Insight

Chloe Williams, associate transport planner at Arup and regional lead for the West Midlands, Women in Transport.

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Launching our 20th anniversary year at London Transport Museum

June 09, 2025 in Event
Launching our 20th anniversary year at London Transport Museum

Our CEO Sonya Byers OBE recaps our London launch of Women in Transport’s 20th anniversary year.

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Tags: 20th Anniversary, 20 years, networking, events, corporate partners, volunteers, women’s safety, Equity Index

Neil Pepper MBE on the psychological toll of keeping us physically safe

June 04, 2025 in Member Post
Neil Pepper MBE on the psychological toll of keeping us physically safe

TfL Night Safety Manager Neil Pepper MBE considers the psychological skill-set needed to keep everyone physically safe at work.

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Building Community and Driving Change

June 02, 2025 in Insight

It’s a real privilege to lead TfL’s Women’s Colleague Network Group. It’s such a vibrant and active community there is always plenty going on and with the six sub-groups there’s also plenty of variety and something that appeals to our wide and diverse community.

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Celebrating 6 Years of Camilleri Appointments

May 28, 2025 in Insight

Celebrating 6 Years of Camilleri Appointments.

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Women In Transport - Team Member Insight: Chloe Leach-O'Connell

May 28, 2025 in Team Profile

Team Member Insight from Chloe Leach-O'Connell.

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Scotland Hub Event : "Gender in Transport Procurement" with Turner & Townsend

May 22, 2025 in Event
Scotland Hub Event : "Gender in Transport Procurement" with Turner & Townsend

On 14th May 2025, members of Women in Transport came together at the Turner & Townsend office in Glasgow for an insightful event on “Gender in Transport Procurement.” The evening featured a keynote talk from Evelyn McDowall, Procurement Director at Turner & Townsend, followed by a networking session.

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Hi Vis — A new visual history of Women in Transport

May 20, 2025 in Insight
Hi Vis — A new visual history of Women in Transport

Travel back in time with our new interactive timeline telling the story of Women in Transport.

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Tags: 20 years, 20th Anniversary

Women In Transport Members Insight: Anna Christina Maudet

May 14, 2025 in Insight

Women In Transport Members Insight: Anna Christina Maudet

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Women in Transport Celebrates Renewed Partnership with Ringway

May 06, 2025 in Partnerships

Women in Transport is thrilled to announce that our valued partner, Ringway has decided to renew their partnership with us again this year.

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Scotland Hub: An audience with... Valerie Davidson CEO of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport

May 01, 2025 in Event
Scotland Hub: An audience with... Valerie Davidson CEO of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport

On 29th April,  over 30 members of Women in Transport from all over the UK gathered online to hear from Valerie Davidson, Chief Executive of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport in another instalment of ‘An Audience with…’ organised by our Scotland Hub.

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