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Author Archives: Athene Donald
What Women Think – First thoughts on the Athena Survey of Science, Engineering and Technology 2010
I have been glancing through the results from this year’s ASSET survey. This is a web-based survey of academics at postdoctoral level and above, both men and women, asking them about their experiences and career progression. The results make fascinating … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Research, Science Culture, Women in Science, Women's Issues
Tagged appraisal, ASSET 2010, Athena Forum, promotion
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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
Posted in Biological Physics, Education, Teaching
Tagged Careers, teachers
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Breakfast with Evelyn Fox Keller (Science and Gender Part II)
The second half of the meeting in Austria on Science and Gender gave me a very different impression, both of the topic and the situation in Austria, than I had garnered from the first 24 hours described in my previous … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged Austrian science, Evelyn Fox Keller, gender, macho
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Discussing Science and Gender
I am currently at a meeting in a very attractive location (including snow) in Austria on Science and Gender, organised by the Österreichischen Forschungsgemeinschaft. The meeting overall intends to discuss the topic in a very broad sense, with the participants … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Science Culture, Uncategorized, Women in Science
Tagged deficit model, Londa Schiebinger, Project Implicit, Unconscious bias
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Too Much Interdisciplinarity? From Cliometricians to Mathematical Biologists
I have recently been reading two apparently vastly different books: In Defence of History by Richard J Evans, a Cambridge colleague, and Making Sense of Life by Evelyn Fox Keller. Despite their widely different topics and approaches, reading them in … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Physics, Interdisciplinary Science, Science Culture, Science Funding
Tagged Evelyn Fox Keller, In Defence of History, Making Sense of Life, physics of biology, Richard J Evans
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