Summer 2014
Congratulations!
UCL joins WISE:
UCL has recently become a member of WISE. WISE run
training events, and support industry and the education
sector to recruit and retain female students and staff into
science. You can also advertise events or information in the
WISE newsletter, for example, UCL recently advertised our
Graduate Support Bursary Scheme.
WISE also run the WISE awards for women in science –
please see the 2014 awards website for information on
categories and how to nominate. The deadline for
nominations is Friday 22nd August.
‘Your Life’ campaign:
UCL has signed up to the ‘your life’ campaign. This is a new
initiative is aiming to bring together businesses, educators
and the government to promote STEM careers, and to
retain women in STEM careers. Signatories commit to
helping women and girls into studying and pursuing careers
in maths, physics, technology and engineering. They pledge
to:
Engage with young people
Participate in the national Your Life campaign
Increase the numbers of women in STEM fields
within their organisations
Please see the Your Life website for more
information, and to see the UCL pledge
Contact
Harriet.jones@ucl.ac.uk
Congratulations to Professor Rachel McKendry on
being awarded the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin
Award for Women in Science. Professor McKendry is
based in the London Centre for Nanotechnology at
UCL. Last year’s medallist was Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
from UCL’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Congratulations to Deborah Gill, Interim Director, UCL
Medical School, who was awarded the Women in the
City Future Leaders Award.
Tips and ideas:
Mentoring: the UKRC Mentoring Manual might be
useful as a tool for training mentors within your
department
Very good advert encouraging girls into STEMM
subjects – it highlights the way in which girls are subtly
discouraged from perusing scientific interests – click
here
Bias: Dr Moss-Racusin published a paper on
unconscious bias in academia, specifically in STEM in
PNAS, 2012. Click here to see Dr Moss-Racusin give a
presentation on her research.
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