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AWE has published its third gender pay gap report. All UK companies with more than 250 employees are required to publish this report annually, and our 2020 report shows that our median gender pay gap is 18.6%. This represents an increase compared to last year’s 15%, and is broadly in line with the current national […]

On 11th February, the United Nations, partners worldwide, women and girls will mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, celebrating the theme, ‘Investment in Women and Girls in Science for Inclusive Green Growth.’ The Day focuses on the reality that science and gender equality are both vital for the achievement of internationally agreed […]

The 2nd – 9th February marks the 13th National Apprenticeship Week. National Apprentice Week is an annual week-long celebration of apprenticeships across England and a time to recognise and applaud apprenticeship success stories across the country. Throughout the 13 years, National Apprenticeship Week has brought together apprenticeship supporters from across the country, with MPs, ambassadors, […]

AWE welcomes the recently published National Audit Office report into nuclear infrastructure. The report recognises the complexity of these projects and acknowledges the improvements in managing them since 2016. We will continue to work closely with the MOD and our regulators. Read more.

The new year brings an exciting new role and responsibility for AWE graduate physicist, Josiah O’Brien, who has been appointed to the WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) Young Professionals Board (YPB). The WISE YPB is responsible for developing opportunities that support WISE in its quest for gender balance in STEM industries. It comprises a […]

“Our way of operating is fully inclusive, getting the best from every team and every individual.” AWE is very proud to announce that today we have been accredited as a Disability Confident Employer by the Department of Work & Pensions.  It’s very timely as 3rd December is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The […]

We are delighted to announce that the AWE Quality team won Team of the Year at the International Quality Awards, hosted by the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) at London’s prestigious Connaught Rooms. The International Quality Awards celebrates excellence in the Quality sector. Judged via a rigorous evidence-based process, these awards acknowledge the contribution of the […]

AWE Charity Fund has made a donation to support the Woodland’s Trust Pledge to Plant a million trees for The Big Climate Fightback campaign. As part of AWE’s commitment to be a responsible business we have donated over 400 tree saplings to our staff and local community in exchange for a small donation to our […]

As part of our activities to support national  Road Safety Week we have been helping our local schools spread the message by supporting them in their own campaigns to raise awareness with pupils in their schools. The theme for this year’s campaign is “Step up for Safe Streets” and we donated some junior road safety […]

MOD Quality Awards 2019 At a ceremony held in Bristol on 5 November, AWE won four awards in this year’s prestigious MOD Quality Awards. This is a great achievement for the business. In total the MOD gave out 14 awards across industry and various departments within the MOD and Armed Forces. The judges also chose […]

AWE has awarded a contract to Cray to install a new supercomputer using their new Shasta computer architecture. The name Vulcan was chosen after a vote by staff who will be using the system. Vulcan certainly packs a punch, featuring 5000 processors based upon 32-core, 2.9 GHz, second-generation AMD EPYC ‘Rome’ sockets, with a theoretical […]

The Autumn edition of ‘Connect’ – the newsletter for our neighbours, is out now. Read all about how we’re recruiting for our next intake of graduates, as well as how successful the 2019 Primary Science Challenge was this year. Read ‘Connect’- November 2019