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Author Archives: Athene Donald
Diversity in the HE Sector
When I was a harried mother, trying to maintain some sort of work-life balance while running a research group and keeping family fed and watered alongside my husband, I had no energy left for reading. Aga sagas, chick-lit and general … Continue reading
Posted in David Willetts, education, Further Educcation, higher education, Sam Gyimah
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Are universities finally moving towards their #MeToo moment?
I have been away from my computer for over a week, but while I was away a piece I wrote previously for the Guardian HE Network has appeared regarding sexism in academic science. So, for my latest thoughts on this … Continue reading
Posted in Geoff Marcy, Guardian, sexism, Women in science
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Judging on Potential (or Not)
I was trying to lay my hands on a quote I heard recently on the radio about creativity by Wolfgang von Goethe to kickstart this blogpost, and instead (amongst 100’s of others of his quotes) I came upon this: ‘Girls … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Goethe, promotion, referees, Royal Society, Women in science
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A Lifetime of Music
It is inevitable that as one gets older the deaths of people who have meant a great deal to you happen more and more often. I have written in the past years about the death of two key mentors of … Continue reading
Posted in Camden School for Girls, education, LSSO, Peter Morgan, viola
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What does the Future Hold for Interdisciplinary Research Funding
UKRI has big shoes to fill. So far it has only just begun to signal its intentions regarding strategic directions: the ‘strategic prospectus’ it published in May was more a road map for developing its strategy than a strategy itself. … Continue reading
Posted in Interdisciplinary Science, refereeing, Science Funding, Strategic Priorities Fund, UKRI
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Anchoring Your Biases
I couldn’t tell you when I last listened to a football commentary on radio or TV (the current World Cup has not caused me to rush to change this), but I don’t need to listen to realise that a statement … Continue reading
Posted in anchoring bias, Equality, unconscious bias training, voice
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Where are the Modest Men?
A hashtag debuting this week has caused quite a stir on Twitter: #immodestwomen. In the wake of a US newspaper deciding not to accord anyone the title of Dr in its articles, unless they were medical doctors, historian Dr Fern … Continue reading
Posted in Amplification, Dr Fern Riddell, Equality, immodest women, mansplaining
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Being Critical
When discussing the skills students pick up – and need to pick up – during their undergraduate courses in a subject like physics, I always highlight the fact that they learn how to be critical, notably about assumptions underpinning an … Continue reading
The Only Woman in the Room
As the Master of a Cambridge College it probably isn’t surprising that I get asked to talk about Leadership, and often more specifically Women in Leadership/as Leaders, but there is nothing that brings out the inner impostor in me faster … Continue reading
Posted in board membership, Equality, gender pay gap, Philip Hampton
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Writing, Creativity and Grief
What acts are best to provoke creativity? Some poets – from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Dylan Thomas – seem to have felt that drug- or alcohol- induced hazes may be effective, but I don’t think many scientists would recommend that … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Dictionary of National Biography, Sir Sam Edwards, Thomas Edison
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