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Author Archives: Athene Donald
The Art of Festive Conversation
A frivolous post appropriate to the time of year. Type ‘conversation’ into Amazon, and you’ll get a whole list of self-help books, such as: The Art of Conversation, Or, What to Say, and When; How to Talk to Anyone: 92 … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Science Culture
Tagged awkward moments, conversation stopper, physicist
31 Comments
On Passion
In the past few weeks there have been a number of articles commenting on the lack of women fronting up science on TV. First there was Jenny Rohn writing on ‘In which I Contemplate the Ranks of the Invisible’, quickly … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Science Culture, Uncategorized, Women in Science
Tagged Brian Cox, science on TV, women on TV
31 Comments
Where’s the Wow Factor?
Where’s the Wow Factor? was a question posed at the Physics Meets Biology meeting in September in the context of teaching Biological Physics, as I discussed before. I was reminded of this question while attending this year’s Institute of Physics … Continue reading
The Media and (Un)Constructive Reporting – the David Lammy Saga
This week, universities and their funding have been much in the news, coupled with telling images of the anger of many students around the country at the proposed hike in fees. Another story also hit the news about universities, or … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Equality
Tagged access, David Lammy, minority students, Oxbridge admissions, widening participation
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Committees and Reverse Discrimination
Recently I was discussing a new working group that was being set up within the University, and realised that all the members that I had heard named were female. I queried this and was told that that did indeed seem … Continue reading
