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Nature vs Nurture: Girls and STEM
This article was written by Zuleyka Zevallos, Buddhini Samarasinghe and Rajini Rao. Dr. Zuleyka Zevallos is a research and social media consultant with a PhD in Sociology. Dr. Buddhini Samarasinghe is...
View ArticleRoma Agrawal on bridging the diversity gap in engineering and inspiring a...
Roma Agrawal: “We have to make sure stereotypes don’t get in the way of future choices.” (Image courtesy of Nicola Evans, WSP) Roma is an Associate Structural Engineer at WSP where she spent six years...
View ArticleDistinguished South African Professor Tebello Nyokong on science, education...
“When I talk to schools or parents, the first thing I say, is let your children touch and explore, it’s the first path to science.” Image courtesy of Ettione In the first of our five features...
View ArticleNature India Editor Subhra Priyadarshini on the Indian science boom and the...
“India is now transitioning from a developing country into an emerging economic superpower and as a result many areas of development, including science, are catching up quickly.” In the second of our...
View ArticleOreoluwa Somolu: The Nigerian woman empowering young women in Africa to...
“Lots of the girls who attend the centre have never seen or met a woman who is a computer scientist or engineer, so the prospect of becoming one, is not within the realms of possibility.” In the third...
View ArticleUNESCO Regional Chair on Women, Science & Technology, Dr Gloria Bonder, talks...
“What I would love to see is more qualitative research not on why women can’t and why so few, but who the women are that are successfully developing careers in engineering, technology or sciences.” In...
View ArticleChristina Lewis Halpern: The New York woman inspiring young men from minority...
“It was an entirely new world, and IT opened my eyes to how few black and brown young men were active in the technology industry.” (Image courtesy of All Star Code) In the last instalment of our series...
View ArticleCitizen Science: In the Shadows of Volcán Tungurahua
How Ecuadorian communities and scientists are linking up to reduce the risk of one of South America’s most active volcanoes. Jonathan Stone: “In volcanology a great deal of research is put into the...
View ArticleFrom despair to repair: Empowering communities to restore their oceans
Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson with then Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, Baldwin Spencer. (Image: Waitt Institute) Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist and Executive Director of the Waitt...
View ArticleCelebrating impact: How multidisciplinary One Health research produced...
Guest post by Naomi Marks, project communications manager at the Institute of Development Studies. She managed the communications for the Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium and now works...
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