Today (23 June) sees the launch of the Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) campaign 2016, supported by a wide range of partners including Department for Women and Equalities and The Equality Challenge Unit and led by MediaPlanet.
To mark the start of the campaign, Birkbeck spoke to women working in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) departments across the College to find out more about what excites them about working in their research fields, how they came to follow a career in STEM and who inspires them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t38idpiEtA&feature=youtu.be
The Departments of Biological Sciences and Psychological Sciences at Birkbeck have been awarded Athena Swan Bronze awards. Athena Swan awards are given by the Equality Challenge Unit in recognition of commitment to advancing the careers of women in STEM subjects. Other departments and the College are working towards further awards.
Read more content from #BBKWomeninSTEM
- Blogs
Make fear your friend by Professor Naz Derakhshan - Prof Sarah Hart explores sum free sets
- Crystallography: from chocolate to drug discovery. This year’s Rosalind Franklin lecture was given by Prof Elspeth Garmon and blogged by Dr Clare Sansom
- Cognitive Training in Psychological Wellbeing was the topic of Prof Naz Derekshan’s Birkbeck Science Week talk, blogged by Jessica Swainston
- The Myth of Optimism Bias: research by Prof Ulrike Hahn & colleagues
- Computational modelling in structural biology. A report on Dr Maya Topf’s by Dr Clare Sansom
- Lost Worlds of the Solar System. Blog about Prof Hilary Downes Birkbeck Science Week talk, by Anja Lanin
BBK article: This year’s BBK magazine featured a profile of Rosalind Franklin, the “dark lady of DNA” #WomeninSTEM16
Video
Inspired by science: women in science share their stories
What can we learn from the Apollo samples? Dr Louise Alexander
