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Author Archives: Athene Donald
Spreading the Word, Drop by Drop
There are times when I feel as if I’m talked out about gender. I know what the issues are, I’ve written and spoken about them often enough; I’ve dug up and read through some of the relevant papers (though that … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Ottoline Leyser, promotion, Science Culture, speaking out, Unconscious bias, Women in science
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From a New Viewpoint
I have moved a mere mile or two from my previous home to my new abode at Churchill College, and yet it feels as if everything has shifted: my centre of gravity is this crucial mile further west and everything … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridge, Churchill College, College Life, Science Culture, students
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Getting the Most out of Panel Discussions
When I set out as a young researcher, conferences had a pretty monolithic structure. There were longer talks and there were shorter talks, but that was it. I don’t even think the first conferences I attended had poster sessions. Talks … Continue reading
Posted in audience participation, chairing, conferences, Science Culture, time-keeping
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Is the Royal Society Treating Women Fairly?
This year’s announcement regarding successful applicants for Royal Society University Research Fellowships (URFs) has been hailed with deep suspicion by many. Out of 43 awards only 2 went to women and there is no getting around the fact that this … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, interviews, Science Funding, Unconscious bias, University Research Fellows, Women in science
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What’s Wrong with Conferences?
September is customarily a busy month for conferences, often with too many interesting ones that clash. What makes for a good meeting? Exciting talks, which you haven’t heard before (so not just lazy wheeling out of the usual suspects by … Continue reading
Posted in clocks, Communicating Science, keynote speakers, poster sessions, Science Culture
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Who Isn’t an Impostor?
Last week I attended the last day of the British Science Association‘s Festival in Birmingham. There was a real buzz about the place and it had clearly been an extremely successful few days. I enjoyed hearing Ineke de Moortel – … Continue reading
Posted in British Science Association, Communicating Science, Impostor syndrome, Paul Nurse, Robin Ince, Science Culture, Steve Cross
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Fresh Start, Fresh Anxieties
This is the time of year when anxious students-to-be – and their parents – are contemplating their future. Having established that they have got into University X once A level results are known, they have to work out what the … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridge University, Churchill College, Freshers, Science Culture
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Men are Parents Too
Another shocking headline) graced the pages of the Daily Telegraph this week, albeit apparently only temporarily before removal. ‘Mother of 3 poised to lead the BBC’ it shrieked, a sentence curiously reminiscent of the way Dorothy Hodgkin’s Nobel Prize was … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, headlines, Laura Bates, Rona Fairhead, tabpp
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Whose Responsbility? It’s too Easy to Say ‘Not Mine’
Despite the news being full of stories about how minorities are disadvantaged in larger or smaller ways, it is far from obvious that rapid progress is being made. The articles I read are full of appropriate shock at everything from … Continue reading
Posted in diversity, Equality, faculty, leadership, support, Women in science
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Why Athletics Resembles Academia
Today it’s four years exactly since my first blogpost appeared. Four years of having fun writing about different sorts of things: academic life, committee work and membership, the issues facing women and the joys and frustrations of working at disciplinary … Continue reading
