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Category Archives: Women in Science
Picture a Scientist – Who Do You See?
I am often asked who inspired me. I feel embarrassed to admit the answer is no one, it seems like the wrong answer. Certainly there was no female scientist who triggered my love of science at an early age; I … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged discrimination, harassment, Jane Willenbring, MIT, Nancy Hopkins, Raychelle Burks
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How Best to Tackle Bullying?
How can we make the university sector a more pleasant place to work? Bullying and harassment (whether of a sexual nature or not) are, it would appear, endemic across the higher education sector, for staff and students alike. Every survey … Continue reading
Posted in Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged Bystander, culture change, toxic culture change, Wellcome
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How are Universities Supporting Those Worst Affected by the Pandemic?
This pandemic has thrown all kinds of inequalities into sharp focus, ranging from fundamental matters of health and wellbeing to job security. The consequences of all these issues will echo down the years ahead, long after the pandemic is a … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged Athena Swan, Liverpool University, National Academy of Sciences, pandemic, tenure clock
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Women as Natural Philosophers: Choosing to Challenge
When the Royal Society was founded in 1660, its first Fellows would have been known not as scientists, but as natural philosophers. Science and scientists were words that came into common parlance only around two hundred years later. So, the … Continue reading
Posted in Women in Science
Tagged Margaret Cavendish, Mary Astell, Rene Descartes
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Will ARIA Sing?
The much trailed UK version of ARPA now has a name, and it’s not BARPA or UKARPA, it’s ARIA: the Advanced Research and Invention Agency. Not, note, Innovation but Invention. Is this going to be an important distinction or simply … Continue reading
