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Author Archives: Athene Donald
The Importance of Manufacturing
How many factories have you visited in your life? Do you have any sense of what goes on there? When I was a postdoc in the Cambridge Materials Science Department, helping out with undergraduate projects, I was offered a chance … Continue reading
Posted in Research
Tagged factories, food waste, supply chains, Tim Minshall
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2025
It is ten years since UNESCO declared today, February 11th, as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Less well-known, I suspect, than International Women’s Day, it has a more specific focus. Sadly, in its ten years of … Continue reading
Posted in Education, natural history, People, Uncategorized, Women in Science
Tagged ASPIRES2, Michaela, pipeline, schoolteachers
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The Need to Join the Dots
Last week, I attended an event organised by The Productivity Institute and, more locally, the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, as part of National Productivity Week. The meeting’s theme was Innovation and Infrastructure in the East. Note, despite the recent … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, appraisal, ASSET 2010, Athena Forum, Austrian science, Book Review, Careers, Education, Equality, Evelyn Fox Keller, gender, natural history, People, professional training, promotion, Women's Issues
Tagged Further Education, growth, NEETs, Opportunity Mission, Oxford-Cambridge Corridor
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How Much Does the Scientific Ecosystem Change over Time?
Desmond Bernal was an outstanding crystallographer. Not himself a Nobel Prize winner, he set the likes of Dorothy Hodgkin and Max Perutz on their own successful paths to that accolade. A Communist, he fell from grace during the 50’s and … Continue reading
Unreactive Audiences and Pertinent Questions
Given that it is now a decade or more since I was particularly involved in research, if I am asked to give a seminar – usually to students, sometimes undergraduates, sometimes and more commonly PhD students and early career research … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, deficit model, Interdisciplinary Science, Londa Schiebinger, macho, Project Implicit, Science Culture, Science Funding, social media, Unconscious bias, Universities
Tagged Careers, jerks, team players
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