Dr Anisa Qamar is a professor of plasma physics at Peshawar University in Pakistan. “I was born in a small village in the north of Pakistan where cultural stereotypes mean females are not allowed to go to school,” she says. “My parents were well-educated and held education to be a priority, regardless of gender. Indeed,…
Professor Prajval Shastri, astrophysicist and adjunct professor at Australia’s International Centre for Radioastronomy Research (ICRAR), is often confounded by the advice senior physicists, mostly men but also women, sometimes provide to aspiring women. “I constantly encounter colleagues who mentor young men to ‘stick to your passion and press on’, but to women they say, ‘you need to…
IUPAP Conferences Endorsement & Funding to conferences should be contingent on an anonymised review process for selecting contributed abstracts to the conference Endorsement & Funding to conferences should be contingent on a plenary session on Equity, Diversity & Inclusion which should be embedded within the schedule and include expertise from the social sciences on intersectionality. …
Plenary 1: Gender Gap in the Global Survey: Igle Gledhill, Rachel Ivie and Susan White Plenary 1: Gender in publication practices in maths and physics, Helena Mihaljević Plenary 1: Australia inequity, Lisa Harvey-Smith Plenary 2: Women in physics in Sudan, challenges and opportunities, Nashwa Eassa Plenary 2: Molecular motors and switches at surfaces, Petra Rudolf…
Highlights from the 7th IUPAP Conference on Women in Physics 14 July 2021 Women are less likely to have access to essential career resources Women are massively under-represented in physics journals Only 18 per cent of Australian STEM professors are women. “On the first day of the 7th IUPAP Conference on Women in Physics we…
11 July 2021 We need all our best brains to solve global challenges. And we need to empower women who want an intellectual life to explore big ideas. But, over 99 per cent of physics students at Burkina Faso’s largest university are male no women have graduated in physical sciences at The University of El…
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Media release from the Victorian National Science Week Co-ordinating Committee and Inspiring Victoria How do we fire-proof our forests? How do we save endangered species? What can you do to help? ACCLIMATISE is a festival jam-packed with live and online events investigating insights into sustainability and adaption to climate change. Australian temperatures and sea levels…
Can embryology shed light on cancer growth? Proteins which control the growth of cells in embryos could teach us how to stop the uncontrolled growth of cells that is the hallmark of cancer, thanks to work by molecular biologist Dr Melanie Eckersley-Maslin. Vital to normal development in early life, these molecules may later play a…
Brisbane scientist awarded for research into new blood cancer treatments Clinical haematologist Associate Professor Steven Lane wants to lift the survival rates of his leukaemia patients. He thinks the key could lie in the genetic fingerprints of the blood cancer stem cells that proliferate the disease. Steven is studying how these cells become resistant to…