BCSWomen is a Specialist Group of the British Computer Society

British Computer Society

The British Computer Society, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in Information Technology in the United Kingdom and internationally...

, with the aim of supporting women working and considering a career in Information Technology

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

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The group was founded in 2001. It has over a thousand members and an active mailing list. Activities include meetings, networking, and mentoring. They organise the Undergraduate Lovelace Colloquium for undergraduate women in computing, a one day conference which started in Leeds in 2008 and now moves around the UK . They also organise other events for women in computing both technical and social, such as day trips to computer related sites like Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, England, which currently houses the National Museum of Computing...

. The group's founder and chair from 2001–08 was Dr Sue Black

Sue Black (computer scientist)

Dr Sue Black FBCS FRSA is an English computer scientist. She is a Senior Research Associate at University College London, England. Previously she was Head of the Department of Information and Software Systems at the University of Westminster, London. Sue Black founded BCSWomen, a Specialist Group...

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Current and past chairs of BCSWomen

• 2001-2008 Dr Sue Black
  Sue Black (computer scientist)
  Dr Sue Black FBCS FRSA is an English computer scientist. She is a Senior Research Associate at University College London, England. Previously she was Head of the Department of Information and Software Systems at the University of Westminster, London. Sue Black founded BCSWomen, a Specialist Group...
  
  
• 2008-2011 Dr Karen Petrie, a Dorothy Hodgkin
  Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
  Dorothy Mary Hodgkin OM, FRS , née Crowfoot, was a British chemist, credited with the development of protein crystallography....
  
   research fellow at the University of Dundee
  University of Dundee
  The University of Dundee is a university based in the city and Royal burgh of Dundee on eastern coast of the central Lowlands of Scotland and with a small number of institutions elsewhere....
  
  
• 2011-current Gillian Arnold, director of Tectre