The three Rs - recruitment, retention and returning.
An informal and provocative debate on why there aren't more women in the physical sciences, engineering and technology
09.30-12.30 Monday 8 September 2003
Lunch to follow at 12.30-13.30 in University House restaurant
At the BA Festival of Science, Chapman building, LT3, Salford University
Organised by the Institute of Physics, the Daphne Jackson Trust, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Science Council and ETB.
Are the three Rs recruitment, retention and returning, or are they repetition, regurgitation and reiteration? There has been endless debate about the lack of women in the physical sciences, engineering and technology - we want to discuss what can actually be done, and what really works.
Join Vivienne Parry, who will lead an informal, fresh and provocative debate about how and why (or even if!) we should get more women into science based careers. Panellists Fran Bagenal (University of Colarado), Helga Ebeling (Women and Science Unit of the European Commission), Gill Samuels (Pfizer) and Peter Williams (President of the BA) will take anything you can throw into the debate!
Whether you are a woman starting your career based in the physical sciences or you have controversial views on women in science (or if you are just interested in women!), we welcome your participation in this debate. So come and take a seat alongside our panel and let your views be heard. Or just come to find out what participants feel is most important: recruitment, retention or returning.
Chair:
Vivienne Parry
Vivienne Parry is a writer and broadcaster with a unique mix of skills and a passion for communication. A scientist by training and an enthusiast by nature she may be the only journalist to have written for both the News of the World and for the Journal of Molecular Biology! She is the Science Editor of Good Housekeeping and also the Consumer Editor of Woman's Own. She has a lively, direct style and gift of being able to coax even the most reluctant person to make a contribution during debates and conferences. Her other lives include running a charitable trust for a FTSE 100 company and being a domestic goddess.
Panellists:
Professor Frances Bagenal
Frances Bagenal is currently Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She has held various positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (from where she obtained her PhD in 1981) as well as at Imperial College London.
Prof Bagenal recently Chaired the Programme Committee for "Women in Astronomy II: Ten Years After" at Caltech, which reviewed the status of women in astronomy, and has a long held interest in issues of women in the physical sciences.
Dr Gill Samuels
Gill Samuels is a physiologist and neuropharmacologist. She is Senior Director of Science Policy and Scientific Affairs, Europe, Sandwich Laboratories of Pfizer Global Research and Development. Gill is interested in women's careers in science - she is Vice-President of AWISE (Association of Women in Science and Engineering) - and a co-author of SETFair (the Greenfield Report on Women in Science). She is a member of the Rosalind Franklin Award Panel of the Royal Society and a member of the Athena Project Advisory Panel.
Sir Peter Williams
Trained as a physicist, Sir Peter initially pursued an academic career at Cambridge University and then at Imperial College, London, and went on to work in science based industry. Sir Peter is currently Chairman of the UK's Engineering and Technology Board and the President of the BA. In 2004 he will become joint Patron of WISE (Women in Science & Engineering).
Dr Helga Ebeling
Helga Ebeling has recently been dealing with the Women in Industrial Research Project for the Science and Society Directorate of the European Commission, which produced a report earlier this year. She has been a member of the EU expert group, Women in Science, since 1998, and the chair of the working group on the same subject of the Bund-Länder Commission for Educational Planning and Research Promotion since 1991. Her publications are on issues of equality of opportunity in science and research, schools, vocational education and training, lifelong learning and international developments.
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