Materials Post-Grad Launches Women of Science Campaign
Social responsibility 5th December 2016
It’s an exciting day for one of the school’s PhD students, and somebody who has appeared on the blog a couple of times already. Rhys Archer appeared in the #MondayMaterials series and also wrote a post for us about her success in the ‘I’m An Engineer, Get Me out of Here’ competition. Part of her prize for this impressive victory was some funding for an outreach programme. Rhys chose to produce the Women of Science campaign and today, December 5th 2016, is launch day. It’s a hugely exciting project, so we hope you’ll read on and maybe even get involved. Rhys will tell you more about it below, and there’s even a snippet of the first case study from the campaign:
Women of Science campaign – Rhys Archer
Why this campaign?
Firstly, I recognised a lack of female scientists and engineers in the media and I didn’t feel this fairly represented the amount of women doing good work in STEM in both research and industry. Due to this, sometimes young women and girls interested in STEM don’t always have female role models in STEM, as they will not always have been taught Science or Maths by female teachers either.
Why photo stories?
After attending a few talks on the history of science, the importance of having real, relatable people to inspire young generations in science was apparent. Yes we have Einstein, Marie Curie etc which can spark an interest, but as a role model they can be completely unrelatable – seen as lone geniuses who were infinitely intelligent. So I also wanted to present women in STEM as real people who could be related to…
