2018 - Page 2 of 9 - Womanthology

We need another 59,000 engineers and technicians a year so let’s #SmashStereotypesToBits to show girls they have what it takes to thrive in these roles – Jo Foster, Diversity & Inclusion Manager at the Institution of Engineering and Technology

Toronto

From eco racing to eco building: Using engineering to slow the progression of climate change – Aurelia Hibbert, Future Engineer

Women in Transport

Diversity champions from across the transport sector join together to celebrate International Women in Engineering Day in Parliament – Jo Field, Women in Transport Board Member

Coventry-Very-Light-Rail project

Using STEM outreach to make ‘learning’ so fun kids don’t even realise they’re doing it – Elspeth Keating, Materials and Manufacturing Research Fellow at WMG

Soapbox Science: Create the things you wish existed by pulling yourself up by your bootstraps – Fiona Tatton, Womanthology Editor

From office to Batcave: Why a career in science doesn’t have to follow a linear path – Cylita Guy, Ph.D. student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto

Dr Maria-Weber - University of Exeter

Helping the public put a face to the word ‘scientist’ to show that we come in all shapes, sizes, ethnicities and genders – Dr. Maria Weber, Astrophysicist at the University of Chicago

Dora Dzvonyar - Technical University of Munich

Why science can’t exist without good communication and how software engineering is all about realising whatever is in your head using code – Dora Dzvonyar, Lecturer in Informatics at the Technical University of Munich

Crime scene investigations: Researching into forensic genetics and DNA intelligence to help us identify whodunnit – Anastasia Aliferi, Ph.D. student in the King’s Forensics group at King’s College London

Uranium

Seizing the moment and helping to break the ‘old man in a white coat’ stigma in science – Toria Stafford, Ph.D. student in the School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester

Professor-Christine-Chambers - Dalhousie University

It Doesn’t Have To Hurt: Making a difference for children in pain – Dr. Christine Chambers, Professor of Paediatrics, Psychology and Neuroscience at Dalhousie University

Mars

From Electrical Engineer to Martian Scientist: Why information is power and diverse science is better science – Alfiah Rizky Diana Putri, Ph.D. student at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London

Jasmeen-Kanwal - University of St Andrews

Becoming a ‘complex systems scientist’ to analyse how digital organisms evolve and cooperate – Dr. Jasmeen Kanwal, Research Fellow in the School of Biology at the University of St Andrews

Professor Tracy Kivell - University of Kent

Championing gender equality in science by challenging prehistoric attitudes and behaviours – Professor Tracy Kivell, Palaeoanthropologist at the University of Kent

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Explaining to the public why the planet needs ALL of us to care for it: Reaching new and diverse audiences by bringing science to the people – Dr. Julia Cooke, Lecturer in Ecology at The Open University

Digging into the past to gain a better understanding of who we are today, and where we are going in the future – Chioma Vivian Ngonadi, a Gates Scholar and Ph.D. student in the Department of Archaeology at University of Cambridge

African-wild-dogs

Hot dogs: Using mathematical modelling to help save endangered African wild dogs from the impacts of climate change – Dani Rabaiotti, Ph.D. student at the Institute of Zoology at ZSL and the Centre for Biodiversity and Environmental Research

Women-in-Tech

Developing a brighter future for women in tech – Fiona Tatton, Womanthology Editor