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[link] Mobile Apps and Research Methods
Every now and then new technology will change something that humans do in very radical ways. We’ve been collecting information from people scientifically with surveys, interviews, and observations by...
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[link] Where are the women in universities?
Just under 20% of all the UK staff who hold the title of professor are women, HESA statistics reveal. Photograph: Alamy Someone insisted to a student of mine recently that she must have got my title...
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[link] Gender bias (from men and women) blocks women in science
AVAVA/Shutterstock We hear a lot about the gender imbalance in the sciences. Now scientists have looked at one reason women might be disinclined to join the profession: gender bias. A new study from...
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[link] Why We Desperately Need More Women in STEM Fields
So, your six-year-old daughter has been dreaming of becoming a computer scientist. And, as much as you tell her that she will be able to do anything she wants to do, what you’re not telling her is the...
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[notice] Multiple PhD studentships, Queen Mary, University of London
Queen Mary, University of London are advertising multiple PhD studentships, including four internal studentships that cover full fees and maintenance for three years, plus up to two ESRC 1+3...
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[report] New Study of Scientists’ Views of Sex Discrimination’s Impact
http://www.psmag.com Both male and female scientists believe that gender discrimination is one reason why some women avoid careers in science, and why some who opt for science careers pursue biology...
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[link] TEDxWomen 2012: No Matter Where You Are
TED (conference) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The worldwide phenomenon known as TED was started in 1984 when designer and architect Richard Saul Wurman noticed the complex, dynamic and culture-changing...
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[notice] Annual Book Prize – Feminist and Women’s Studies Association book...
The Book Prize is now kindly supported by Palgrave Macmillan. Palgrave Macmillan is internationally renowned for its support and publication of feminist and gender studies scholarship. Philippa Grand,...
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[link] Stressed academics are ready to blow in pressure-cooker culture
Credit: Alamy Academics are suffering from growing stress levels as a result of heavy workloads, management issues and a long-hours culture, a survey has found. Unachievable deadlines, acute time...
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[seminar] Teesside University: Incarceration is Rehabilitation: Prison and...
The American criminal justice has long exerted a substantive impact on UK crime control policy. US practices such as the privatization of criminal justice, ‘three strikes and you’re out’ (mandatory...
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[link] Scientists take note: women are key to the best results
Research deserves our support for one simple reason: it improves societies and the lives of their citizens. Researchers discover what was previously unknown and they use that knowledge for innovation –...
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[link] A broader-based response to shootings
We can and should take steps to prevent mass shootings, of course, but these rare and terrible crimes are like rare and terrible diseases — and a strategy to address them is best considered within the...
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[research] Study demonstrates sexism in science
From tanyagrove.wordpress.com You might recall the European Union’s rather ill-conceived attempt to address the gender imbalance in science by releasing “Science: It’s a Girl Thing” – a video...
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[link] We need to attract more people of colour, women to STEM fields
From tanyagrove.wordpress.com/ This piece sets itself up as discussing the “five reasons” why we need more women and minorities in STEM fields. As it turns out, it doesn’t explore those reasons in any...
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[video] Ben Goldacre’s Bad Evidence (on evidence-based practice)
Medic and author Ben Goldacre explores the idea of evidence-based policy and asks if it can ever become a reality in the UK. In medicine, how do we know if a particular treatment works? The simple...
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[research] Sexual discrimination in science: why we must act now
From the guardian: Can it be that women are treated less fairly than men? A deceptively simple piece of research led by Jo Handelsman at Yale University has recently suggested that they are. The...
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[link] Intersectionality, privilege and women in academia
One of the most important experiences I ever had was when I asked a question on a internet forum, for a research idea I had at the time, to which I either added or implied all my credentials...
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[link] Did the pro-life movement lead to more single mothers? (Problematic...
I’m generally interested in the discussion in this article (i.e. the potential sociological impact of the pro-life movement) but I’m a bit concerned with its implication that single motherhood is A Bad...
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[link] Letters to a young academic
Regrets? They’ve had a few…but with the frustrations have come joys and satisfaction, too. Here, six scholars reveal what they wish they had known at the beginning of their careers and offer some sage...
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[link] My university life as a woman professor
I’m sure female academics everywhere can empathise with this. Reading Rachel Williams’ recent article, ‘The professor is almost always white‘ (and male, of course), some moments in my own career came...
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