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Author Archives: Athene Donald
The Advantages of Maturity
A final post on the Oxford meeting, before I go on holiday for the next week (no laptop, no emails and no posts). This topic is provoked by some comments made to me by a mature PhD student attending the … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Physics, Education
Tagged life skills, research student, training
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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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The Players in Physics Meets Biology
Today has been an interesting day at the Physics Meets Biology meeting, I mentioned a couple of days ago. The talks were diverse as one would expect from the community ranging from insect adhesion (Matthew Anyon from Hull), through the … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Physics
Tagged physics staff, research councils, science funding
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The Drawbacks of the Deficit Model
Following on from my recent post, and my remarks about not being a shrinking violet, let me take up the theme of the ‘deficit model’ discussed in a recent post by my erstwhile colleague and WiSETI project officer Esther Haines … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science, Women's Issues
Tagged career breaks, deficit model, maternity leave, positive action
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Physics Meets Biology
I am off to the Institute of Physics’ Physics Meets Biology meeting in Oxford later this week, organised by the Biological Physics Group, whose committee I have chaired for the last 3 years. We held our first meeting (with the … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Physics
Tagged Biological Physics, Institute of Physics, Physics meets Biology
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