Future Skills for Women in Dundee.
Join us in empowering women with the data, digital, and creative skills shaping tomorrow’s workforce.
This 6 month programme delivers proven impact by helping women build skills in data, AI, and digital tools while gaining the confidence and support needed for career progression. Combining mentorship, human and technical skills, employability guidance, and wellbeing coaching, it creates a holistic pathway into future-focused roles. Designed with a flexible, human-centred approach, the programme uses Design Thinking to tackle real-world challenges through virtual sessions, evening classes, and weekend workshops. Learners also complete meaningful community projects that strengthen local connections and create real social value.
Meet the programme designers
We partnered with Data Gals and Nomad Alba for this programme.
Katarina, founder of Data Gals - is an SWIT award winning and mission-driven recruiter transforming opportunities for women in data and tech. Through The Data Gals, she delivers industry-leading placement results and partners with organisations to create inclusive hiring from the ground up. She headed up our mentorship scheme, and has hands-on experience—from coaching to mentorship—helping women build confidence and secure meaningful roles. Her work is driving real, measurable progress toward a more equitable tech workforce.
Bianca Peel, founder of Nomad Alba - is a multidisciplinary educator, creative therapist, and social impact practitioner who helps people learn, heal, and connect through creativity and human-centred design. She creates holistic learning experiences—from future-skills programmes to creative wellbeing workshops—that strengthen confidence, community, and belonging. She brings the ‘human skills’ to our tech programme.
Building Future-Ready Skills.
The Dundee Women and Future Skills Programme is already transforming lives. Women gain real-world data skills, confidence, and career momentum — supported by structured mentorship and flexible, human-centred learning.
Mentorship with
Data Gals
For this programme, we partnered with Data Gals, a SWIT award-winning organisation who have helped countless women get a rewarding career in tech.
Structured Mentorship
One-to-one mentor pairing ensures participants develop confidence, skills, and networks.
Mentors are experienced industry professionals eager to share expertise.
“The response we’ve had from mentors in Dundee has been incredible — well over the number we initially needed. Our mentors are ready and genuinely excited to support learners, share their networks and provide real insight into the data industry. This programme builds on what’s worked before — we’ve seen how this combination of mentoring and skills training creates real momentum and opens doors into meaningful careers.”
Katarina, Founder of Data Gals and Mentorship Programme Lead:
“I’d been trying to get into data for a while and felt stuck. The mentorship I received through the Data Gals programme gave me the support I needed to grow my reporting skills and confidence. Having a female mentor made a big difference.””
Jo
““Kat was instrumental in helping me build not just skills but confidence. She helped me stay focused, prepare for interviews, and step into a new role with the right mindset. That support made a lasting difference.””
Monet Goode
Design Thinking and Flexible Learning
Our programme is built around Design Thinking. A creative, human-centred approach that supports learners to solve real problems and develop future-ready skills.
Design Thinking encourages curiosity, empathy, and innovation supporting women to explore how data and digital tools can make a difference in their communities.
By using this approach, we’ve created a flexible learning model tailored to our learners lives. Learners benefit from our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), our bite sized videos, flipped classrooms, self-paced resources, evening sessions, and Saturday workshops to ensure everyone can progress at their own pace.
This structure builds confidence and practical experience helping learners turn ideas into action through collaboration, creativity, and applied data projects.
Partnership & Collaboration
This programme showcases the power of partnership. Developed by Code Division, Nomad Alba, and The Data Gals, it blends technical learning, wellbeing, and inclusion into a single, impactful experience.
Code Division, a finalist in the Tech for Good category at the Social Enterprise Scotland Awards, brings years of experience delivering accessible digital training to disadvantaged communities. Nomad Alba focuses on community, remote work, and wellbeing, while The Data Gals bring expertise in mentorship and inclusive recruitment.
Together, these partners ensure the Dundee Women and Future Skills Programme delivers real change — for individuals, employers, and the wider community.
We welcome anyone interested in supporting this initiative or organisations wishing to create a similar programme in their area to get in touch. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do — and together, we can build a more inclusive digital future.
