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Category Archives: Women in Science
Of a Retiring Nature
The end of this month marks my retirement from my professorial position at Cambridge, something that I still find rather surprising. My career on that front has just faded out, yet another victim of the pandemic; the conference planned for … Continue reading
Posted in Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged Churchill College, retirement, support
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We’ve Come a Long Way But…..
When Rita Colwell was born in 1934, neither Oxford nor Cambridge Universities had yet appointed a female professor in any discipline; Dorothy Garrod, the first woman to hold such a chair (the Disney Chair of Archaeology at Cambridge), was not … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged Athena Swan, harassment, Ottoline Leyser, Rita Colwell
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Active Silencing
Aggressive. That’s such a useful put-down. As in “I think there were several very vocal, dare I say aggressive residents that, in my opinion, regardless of what work was being carried out or not, they still would have had reason … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged angry black woman, Emma Chapman, Reni Eddo-Lodge, troublemaker
2 Comments
Remembering Rosalind Franklin
By Spudgun67 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link Everyone knows a little something about Rosalind Franklin, whose hundredth birthday it would be today. Some may have little sense of her beyond the belief that she was cheated out of … Continue reading
Yet Another Source of Inequality?
It is far too early to know what the long-term social, economic and educational impacts of the current pandemic are. However, some predictions are easier to make than others. One unfortunate but obvious side-effect is the perpetuation and accentuation of … Continue reading
