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Excluding, silencing and discouraging so many brilliant minds carries a very heavy cost, not just to the women directly impacted, but to all of humanity.
Science teaches you many skills. Even if you don’t plan for a science related career, including a science subject in your senior years can provide a good balance. But only if you’re interested.
Women enrolled in STEM courses are often more confident than men, but it hasn’t translated into career success and they are still very much a minority. More needs to be done in workplaces and schools.
Science development in Africa is intimately linked to the quality of people who are able to lead change.
A confession: I can count on a single hand the number of women I have invited to collaborate with me on publications and grants.
An ambassador needs to do more than just encourage young girls to enter STEMM, the role must address structural and cultural issues that push women out of the pipeline mid-career.
Not much attention has been given to how mothers who want to attend workshops and conferences are supported. This simple intervention can boost the presence of women in science.
Journal Impact Factors are unreliable and may be gamed. But can they still offer value?
Society, parents, schools and popular media all perpetuate the myth that girls don’t have the brains or ability to be scientists. Of course, that simply isn’t true.
For science to have an impact there must be a genuine will to implement its advances. This requires promoting a greater understanding of science in broader society.
Embracing more rigorous scientific methods would mean getting science right more often than we currently do. But the way we value and reward scientists makes this a challenge.
Collaboration is one of the keys to making African science soar: when the continent’s universities work together, they can produce amazing results.
Science and business don’t often go together, but that’s changing as more scientists realise that their best ideas can be commercialised.
Most industries tap into big data these days – meaning more and more jobs are opening up in this field. Here’s some background on the skills and qualities you’d use as a modern big data professional.
Africa has deep-rooted problems: poverty, disease, corruption and war. Could these be solved through mathematical science?
Careers advice for primary school children helps bust stereotypes and boost aspirations.
The equalities minister, Jo Swinson, has suggested that boys should be encouraged to play with dolls to make them more “nurturing and caring”. This is apparently in the hope that they will become more…
Science and engineering subjects are often presented as better career choices for students than the arts or humanities. Nicky Morgan, the education secretary, recently said that STEM subjects – sciences…
Imagine if you could gauge your chances of getting to the very top of your profession, just as you are starting out your career? A recent publication has boldly outlined a predictive model for doing just…
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Director of the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute and Future Africa, University of Pretoria
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Australia's Chief Scientist, Office of the Chief Scientist
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Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic Innovation & Change), Professor of Astrophysics, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Child Trauma and Recovery, and Associate Director, Child & Community Wellbeing Unit, The University of Melbourne
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Merlin Crossley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic and Professor of Molecular Biology, UNSW Sydney
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Turing and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, University of Bristol, University of Bristol
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Doctoral Graduate Student in the Department of Immunology, University of Toronto
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Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Postdoctoral neuroscientist, Imperial College London
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Curtin University
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Professor Emeritus of Cognitive NeuroImaging, Aston University
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Professor Tristram Hooley, Professor of Career Education and Head of International Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioinformatics, University of the Western Cape
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Lecturer, Initial Teacher Education, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor: Medicinal plant biotechnology, Stellenbosch University
