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Category Archives: Teaching
Do we need a Female Brian Cox? Inspiration, Role Models and the Media
Last week I talked to undergraduates in Cambridge about my new role as Gender Equality Champion within the University, about the sort of activities I envisaged in my new role and how I had got to where I am in … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Education, Teaching, Women in Science
Tagged Brian Cox, Camden School for Girls, role models, teachers, TV presenters
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Stereotype Threat, Underperformance and Diversity
Some months ago I came across a review in the THE for a book with the strange title of Whistling Vivaldi, by Claude Steele and it finally came to the top of my reading list recently. Far too late to … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Equality, Teaching, Women in Science
Tagged Claude Steele, exam performance, minority, Whistling Vivaldi
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Educational Breadth
I am now off to Paris for a 2 day meeting of the ESPCI International Advisory Committee. ESPCI Paris Tech (the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris, one of a group of institutions … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Physics, Education, Interdisciplinary Science, Teaching
Tagged Browne, ESPCI, natural sciences, professional training
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Teachers, Careers and Chance
What gets one into working in an interdisciplinary field and what form does it take? A researcher starts off trained in one field but then moves into interdisciplinary working via various routes. One can stay in one’s original field/department but … Continue reading
Teaching to bridge the gap between Physics and Biology
Yesterday’s sessions at the Physics Meets Biology meeting ended with discussion of what can be done to help teaching in biological physics. The 2008 Wakeham Review highlighted that ‘physics students in many departments get regrettably little exposure,if any, to modern … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Physics, Interdisciplinary Science, Teaching
Tagged undergraduate teaching
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