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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
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Tagged factories, food waste, supply chains, Tim Minshall
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What Can I Do to Help?
Men who’ve heard me talk about my book (Not Just for the Boys: Why we need more women in science), or more generally about the issues facing women in STEM, not infrequently ask me this question: what can I do … Continue reading
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Tagged ECRs, Erin Zimmerman, maternity leave, motherhood, supervisors
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Stupid Chemists (perhaps)
I’ve recently returned from my annual visit to the High Polymer Research Group Conference, held at the picturesquely named village of Pott Shrigley at the Western edge of the Peak District. This is a conference about which I have written … Continue reading
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Tagged Careers, data, Pott Shrigley, robots
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Moving On from a Victorian Ideal
I’ve recently been reading How the Victorians took us to the Moon by Iwan Rhys Morus. It’s an interesting book, but what particularly struck me was the Epilogue, which has reflections on how the Victorian way of doing science in … Continue reading
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Tagged Amanda Solloway, incentives, lone genius, reward
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Not Being in the In-Crowd
Recently I was preparing a talk about work scientists may do that is not simply research and it has provoked me to think about when I fell into doing policy work, or at least moving out of the lab itself. … Continue reading
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Tagged Food Physics, grant panels, maternity leave
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