-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Archives
Pages
Meta
Twitter
Category Archives: Science Culture
Does Life Get Better at Mid-Career?
Julie Gould and Nature Careers podcasts have been running an interesting series (Muddle of the Middle) on what it’s like to be a mid-career/middle aged scientist. A time when precarity is likely to be past, but reality of all the different … Continue reading
Posted in Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged equity, harassment, obstacles, patronising
Comments Off on Does Life Get Better at Mid-Career?
To Travel or Not to Travel?
Now the academic year has come to an end, it is possible to start to reflect on the year past and what next year might, and I emphasise might, look like. This year has not been as full of Covid-stresses … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Science Culture
Tagged carbon budgets, conferences, hybrid meetings, Zoom
1 Comment
Getting Involved with Policy-making
Last week I presented evidence to the Commons’ Science and Technology’s Select Committee enquiry into Diversity and Inclusion in STEM. I don’t want to rehearse my arguments, which can be read in the transcript of the full morning’s session (or … Continue reading
Parliamentary Activity
This week has brought some curious interventions into the STEM landscape in Parliament. I will return shortly to the much-publicised, if seemingly ill-informed remarks about girls and Physics made by Katherine Birbalsingh – a headteacher and the Government’s social mobility … Continue reading
