STEM Workshops in Worcester

Worcestershire has a rich engineering and scientific heritage, with Great Malvern playing a pivotal role in the development of radar during the Second World War at the Telecommunications Research Establishment. This wartime innovation hub attracted some of Britain's finest scientists and engineers, establishing a tradition of defence technology research that continues to this day. The Morgan Motor Company, founded in Malvern Link in 1910, represents over a century of British automotive craftsmanship and engineering innovation.

Sir Robert Watson-Watt, widely credited as the inventor of radar, led the work at Bawdsey Research Station that proved decisive in the Battle of Britain, before the Telecommunications Research Establishment relocated to Malvern in 1942 to continue Britain's radar development. Sir Edward Appleton, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his work on the ionosphere, pioneered the pulse technique that Robert Watson-Watt later adapted into radar. Joan Curran, a physicist at TRE Malvern during the Second World War, developed Window (chaff), strips of metallic material dropped from aircraft to confuse enemy radar, a countermeasure used to decisive effect during Allied bombing operations from 1943. Henry Frederick Stanley Morgan and his descendants steered the Morgan Motor Company through more than a century of automotive engineering innovation.

QinetiQ's site at Malvern continues the location's legacy of defence research, with work on cybersecurity, electronic warfare, sensors and advanced materials. The Morgan Motor Company in Malvern Link combines traditional coach-building craftsmanship with modern engineering. Worcester Bosch, a major manufacturer of heating and renewable energy systems, has its UK headquarters and manufacturing base in Worcester, making gas boilers alongside renewable technologies such as heat pumps and solar water heating. Malvern Hills Science Park provides incubation space for technology start-up companies.

Defence technology and cybersecurity careers are strongly supported by QinetiQ in Malvern, which offers graduate programmes, apprenticeships and school engagement activities across engineering, physics and computer science. The Morgan Motor Company provides apprenticeships in automotive engineering. Worcester Bosch offers engineering apprenticeships and graduate roles focused on heating systems and renewable energy technology. The growing cluster of cyber and software firms creates pathways into software development, data analysis and information security.