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The winners of the 2011 WISE Awards were announced at a prestigious ceremony on Wednesday 19 October at London’s Institute of Engineering and Technology, with Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal. The Women into Science, Engineering and Construction (WISE) Awards, in association with EADS, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, celebrate those [...]
Qualifications required We are looking for anyone who has worked in science for at least 5 years. The candidate needs to have enthusiasm and a positive attitude and will be expected to liaise with other scientists at all levels. Self motivation and drive are important as a lot of work will be at home and [...]
Bullying at work is when someone tries to intimidate another worker, often in front of colleagues. It is usually, though not always, done to someone in a less senior position. It is similar to harassment, which is where someone’s behaviour is offensive. For example, making sexual comments, or abusing someone’s race, religion or sexual orientation [...]
I am becoming quite irritated by some of the recent crop of adverts on British television, particularly the British Airways and Virgin Airways offerings. It became particularly pointed when they ran in quick succession recently. The British Airways advert traces the history of the men who developed the routes and made flying safer, leaving their [...]
New mums face many challenges after the birth of their child. A huge and complex decision for many is whether to stay at home or go back to work. Half of British mothers go back to work before their child is a year old. Research has begun to focus on the immediate effects of nursery-centred [...]
In2scienceUK offers underprivileged students currently completing Science AS levels in deprived schools the opportunity to work alongside practising scientists for a 1-2 week period, giving students an insight into scientific research and development. Why is this important? Intelligent pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds and traditionally low achieving schools face major obstacles resulting in few pupils obtaining [...]
A project funded by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC) to identify good practice in attracting and retaining more women in science, engineering and technology in Higher Education in Scotland. Background I ran this project in the mid 90’s. The project team came from Stirling and Dundee Universities and we were funded to create [...]
Women who take on leadership roles in academia and business should resist the urge to adopt ‘masculine’ traits such as aggression to get results and use emotional intelligence instead, says psychologist Paula Nicolson from Royal Holloway, University of London in the United Kingdom. A Report from Rachel Bowdens’ blog on Nature Jobs goes further to state that st [...]
Rachel Bowden reports in her nature jobs blog that female postdocs are more positive about their career success to date than female academics, suggesting a more positive outlook for younger generations of scientists, and the availability of flexible working is having a beneficial effect on career development. The gap between men’s and women’s careers in [...]
In The Science Question in Feminism Harding maintains feminist theory is “critical thought” equivalent to that applied by remarkably successful science, while demanding science conform to political, social, financial and gender-based passions of feminist theory. A remarkable paradox, but one frequently heard from archrivals to her radical Right, the Creationists, who also demand science abandon its description [...]
