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Let’s Get Stereotypes out of Science Education
Women are from Venus, like making cupcakes, like bright colours – particularly pink – and need to be told at frequent intervals that ‘math is meant to be hard’. That seems to be the verdict you could cull from many … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Equality, Uncategorized, Women in Science
Tagged physics, stereotype threat, teachers
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The Trouble with Women
A couple of weeks ago I took part in a debate organised by the local chapter of the Triple Helix Society given the provocative title of ‘The Trouble with Women’, designed to debate why women are still found in such … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Equality, Women in Science
Tagged classroom, expectations, maths, physics, teachers
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To Whom I Give My Vote of Thanks
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day when we are asked to celebrate the women who have inspired us in our scientific lives. I have to admit that ‘famous’ women such as Marie Curie or Rosalind Franklin have no part … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Women in Science
Tagged Ada Lovelace, Camden School for Girls, inspiration, physics, teachers
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Do we need a Female Brian Cox? Inspiration, Role Models and the Media
Last week I talked to undergraduates in Cambridge about my new role as Gender Equality Champion within the University, about the sort of activities I envisaged in my new role and how I had got to where I am in … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Education, Teaching, Women in Science
Tagged Brian Cox, Camden School for Girls, role models, teachers, TV presenters
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Teachers, Careers and Chance
What gets one into working in an interdisciplinary field and what form does it take? A researcher starts off trained in one field but then moves into interdisciplinary working via various routes. One can stay in one’s original field/department but … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Physics, Education, Teaching
Tagged Careers, teachers
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