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SAGE(S) Advice – I wish I had known. UPDATED!
Following on from Wednesday’s blog post about Radio 4 Women’s Hour and the advice/hints/tips people would pass on, today we have some SAGE(S) advice….. Sarah Lambert-Gates...
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The postdoc experience: hopes and fears
What is it actually like to be a postdoc? Do the pressures to publish, secure funding and network keep you awake at night? Or do you relish the challenge? Holly Else from ‘Times Higher Education spoke...
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Female scientists put in the picture
Athene Donald (Professor of Physics at Cambridge University) is championing a plan to introduce more portraits and busts of female scientists at the London headquarters of the Royal Society. This is...
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Can you prescribe nature?
Featured today on the BBC news website, Helen Briggs discusses the benefits of taking a walk through a green-space (as opposed to an urban environment). ‘After decades of research, the scientific world...
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Five cities, seven years: my life post-PhD
Posted on the 30th June, Catherine Fletcher (Historian, Author, AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 2015) discusses how being an early career researcher is challenging. In the seven years since she...
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Public Speaking Challenges
You may have experienced or witnessed a presentation beset with technical difficulties (I did a couple of weeks ago). It is a horrible experience to be on the stage when this happens, but it is always...
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Plans to tackle gender pay gap
One of the main stories on the BBC News website today is about plans to tackle the gender pay gap. ‘The government is to press ahead with plans to force large firms to disclose data on the gender pay...
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Lisa Jardine – Desert Island Discs
Hilary Geoghegan highlighted a recent edition of Desert Island discs with Professor Lisa Jardine (Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College London). Lisa was elected an Honorary Fellow of...
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Challenge for the summer
Kate Turner is currently working with Marc and a number of technicians to record and label all of the chemical waste across the School so it can be sent for disposal. This is a huge task! As you can...
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Why Such Tepid Government Aspirations?
On 16th July Athene Donald published a blog post about the gender pay gap, and how equality needs to be on everyone’s agenda. ‘………. changing a workplace culture doesn’t happen overnight. It is hard and...
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We Are Not Impostors
Returning to a popular (and important!) theme I wanted to share this article by Stephen J. Aguilar (doctoral candidate in education and psychology at the University of Michigan) on the Imposter...
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Is flexible working holding back women’s careers?
Published today (23rd July) in the Times Higher, Jack Grove examines whether flexible working is holding back women’s careers. ‘Letting people work hours that help them juggle childcare and...
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Challenge for the summer – updated
As you may have seen there have been lots of moves taking place (particularly in Wager), as well as the regular summer tidy up. While moving equipment this week we have come across paperwork relating...
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Applications open for women’s development programmes
As part of the University’s commitment to supporting the career development of women, applications to the Springboard women’s development programme and the Leadership Foundation’s Aurora women’s...
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Be selfish with your career, advises academic blogger
Stephen Curry is a Structural Biologist at Imperial College London. As well as conducting research and teaching, he also writes a blog, is a panel member for research policy reviews, and works with...
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Keeping mindfulness in mind
An article about mindfulness by James Brooks was published in Research Professional on 22nd July 2015. A number of Universities run mindfulness sessions for students but there is generally less...
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Workaholism isn’t a valid requirement for advancing in science
The importance of a work-life balance is highlighted by Bryan Gaensler (Director, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto) in an article from 13th July 2015 in The...
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Women in science awards open for nominations
WISE is a campaign to promote women in science, technology and engineering. Follow this link to read more – WISE ‘A report published earlier this month by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills...
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Open season for female scientists
Dr Joanna Bagniewska (Teaching Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Reading), has written a blog post on Soapbox Science about gender discrimination in particular at...
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Athena SWAN reaches Ireland
Published in the Times Higher on 30th July, Holly Else reports that ‘the Equity Challenge Unit has awarded Trinity College Dublin and the University of Limerick bronze institutional awards for their...
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