‘It will take time’ … WSP’s head of structures on industry gender parity, juggling work and life and going to the Palace

By Dave Rogers2025-05-21T06:00:00

Claire Gott has been at WSP since 2010 after graduating from university. She’s now in charge of the firm’s structures business in the UK

WSP’s head of building structures thinks for a minute and then says: “If I’m being brutally honest, it’s not where my strength was.”

Claire Gott is mulling whether she misses being an engineer. She has been at the firm since she graduated in 2010 from Southampton University with a civil engineering and architecture degree.

She loved being an engineer but, in the time since joining the Canadian-owned business 15 years ago, she has moved far away from her first job as a graduate on the Alder Hey children’s hospital in Liverpool.

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