Guest Author • Oct 09, 2018 •
Emma Timewell Diversity in science is what makes it truly innovative – and although one scholarship won’t fix it, it’s a step towards a more inclusive sector. This week, the Association for Women in the Sciences (AWIS) is attempting to raise $30,000 for its Women in STEM scholarship. The first AWIS Women in STEM … Read More
Guest Author • Sep 21, 2018 •
Dr Sarah Morgan For the girls wanting a career in science, or the young women wanting to get out: my story. Wizard My journey through science as a woman has been a bit of a meander. As a kid I was the one playing down the back of the garden mixing up magic potions (mud, leaves, flower … Read More
Guest Author • Sep 20, 2018 •
Yvonne Taura When I was young and growing up in Australia, becoming a scientist was far from my ideal career path. I shied away from anything to do with science, physics, or mathematics as the room was always filled with boys – and, to be honest, it was all a little intimidating. Instead, I moved more towards the creative … Read More
Guest Author • Sep 19, 2018 •
Dr Melanie Cheung I’ve been reflecting on the powerful articles celebrating women that I have read this week. Today is the 125th anniversary of women getting the vote in Aotearoa, and it feels like we have come a long way since then. Dr Melanie Cheung, supplied. Any women working in a male-dominated field also realise that we still have … Read More
Guest Author • Sep 18, 2018 •
Dr Siân Halcrow My work and success in science were, in large part, made possible through the ladders that people made and helped me to climb. Most important on this journey was my academic mentor, who was my PhD supervisor and postdoctoral mentor. My mentor built up a positive research group by helping her students and staff up the … Read More
Guest Author • Sep 18, 2018 •
Bridget Burdett My PhD oral defence is in nine days, four hours and 31 minutes. I have an app on my phone telling me so. The work is done and it’s nearly all over… a wonderfully surreal time for a learning-obsessed person like me, and a good time to reflect. Here I’ll share my current ideas on what success means … Read More
Guest Author • Sep 17, 2018 •
Dr Lucy Stewart As writer Kameron Hurley once said regarding women in the military, “We have always fought” – women have always been involved in field research, including at sea. Aotearoa was named by Kuramārōtini, a woman on a long ocean voyage. Early research expeditions by Europeans relied heavily on indigenous women such as Sacagawea … Read More
Sarah-Jane O'Connor • Sep 17, 2018 •
Please don’t do the math, but I was eight in 1993 when New Zealand celebrated 100 years since Suffrage. My mum the history teacher made sure we understood when major world events were going on. I remember her pointing out the Rwandan refugee crisis on TV, telling us it would matter later that we remembered this. Read More
Sarah-Jane O'Connor • Dec 24, 2017 •
Alongside Naomi Alderman’s The Power, it’s the feminist book everyone’s been reading this year. Angela Saini’s Inferior tackles how science got women wrong and who’s resetting the agenda. Saini is a science journalist with a Masters in Engineering, so she can talk with first-hand experience about some of the issues faced in sciences. Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New … Read More
Peter Griffin • Jul 28, 2017 •
How many women of New Zealand science, living or deceased, can you name? Before I started working at the Royal Society running the Science Media Centre, I’d have to admit that it was an embarrassingly small number on either count. Now, I’m privileged to have met hundreds of women in science and to have learned about numerous other women who … Read More