Lucy Cotton – Geothermal Group Manager and Senior Geologist at GeoScience Limited & UK Ambassador for Women in Geothermal
Lucy studied geology at Cardiff University and the went on to University College Cork for a masters. She has been…
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Durham University has improved its family policies
Employees can now access maternity, paternity, adoption, and post-maternity research leave from the day they start work at Durham (previously…
Colour and communication in geoscience
Colour Vision Deficiency (CVD) or colour blindness effects 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women. Colour is commonly…
Article authorship and gender equity
A review of Web of Science found that women are under-represented in article authorship and on average publish 1 less paper per year than…
Megha Sharma – Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA)’s EDI Coordinator
Megha studied engineering at Alberta University. Finding the culture to be hyper masculine and exclusive, she joined Women in Science…
Supporting LGBTQ+ geoscientists, in and out of the classroom
Many LGBTQ+ people feel that their community is not visible/represented in geoscience, and LGBTQ+ students report being unsupported. Best practices…
Gender bias in teaching evaluations
Being the minority gender in a department results in lower teaching evaluations when teaching higher level courses. In a majority…
UKRI and the British Academy fund EDI network to boost R&I in UK
The UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) is providing £3.4 million (plus additional support from the British Academy) to form an…
Professor Marguerite Williams (1895-1991): The first black person to achieve a geoscience doctorate in the USA
Marguerite Williams – a lifelong geosciences educator. While earning a bachelors she worked as a teacher, and afterwards became an…
There are so many reasons why EDI is not the answer
Universities have legal requirements to consider EDI issues, however there is very little progress to show for this. Universities often…
The geoscientist fighting for universities to confront systemic racism
Professor Christopher Jackson, the only black geosciences Professor in the UK when he was appointed in 2015, and first black…
The Department has been awarded Athena Swan Silver
The Athena Swan Charter promotes gender equality in higher education and research. Institutions apply for an award recognising their progress…
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994)
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin is the only British woman scientist to win a Nobel prize – the Nobel prize for chemistry…
Autistic women and girls
Attitudes towards autism andgender are changing, although westill have a long way to go. Manyautistic women and girls are stillstruggling…
Photoshop diversity for funding, when black women are used for photo opportunities
A chemistry researcher at a US university did not work with a team directly and had minimal interactions with them…
Scottish Engineering has appointed its first female president in more than 150 years.
Aine Finlayson, who is director of manufacturing at Glasgow based temporary power giant Aggreko, will hold the title for the…
Patience Anne Cowie (27 January 1964 – 7 April 2020)
Cowie was born in the United Kingdom, she studied geology in Durham University and graduated in 1985. Since her undergraduate…
Inequality matters and knowing why may be the key to beating it.
A steady 80 per cent or so of people in the UK have, for decades, said that they were concerned…
Does following the ‘rules’ keep women safe?
The safety of women as they go about their daily business has once again been thrust into the spotlight. And…
Male life expectancy in UK drops for first time in 40 years as Covid takes toll
Life expectancy for men in the UK has fallen for the first time since current records began 40 years ago…
The 30% Female Author Experiment
New study finds that increasing gender representation in graduate course syllabi affects male and female students’ perceived likelihood of succeeding…
Margaret Chorley Crosfield (1859 – 1952), FGS: the very first female Fellow of the Geological Society
After studying and then leaving Cambridge, Margaret had sought to join the Geological Society of London for many years, and…
Harnessing the Power of Sex Differences: What a Difference Ten Years Did Not Make
Sex differences exist in a variety of neurological and psychiatric diseases but most past research has been conducted in males.…
Durham University failing on bullying, staff say
Durham University is failing to stamp out bullying and harassment, some of its staff have said, after a college principal…
Survey finds majority of women in Durham experienced inappropriate behaviour making them feel unsafe
The majority of women in Durham said they have experienced some form of inappropriate behaviour that made them feel unsafe,…
Tokyo 2020 first ever gender-balanced Olympic Games in history
At the first Olympic Games of the modern era, Athens 1896, International Olympic Committee (IOC) founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin…
Rosemary Hutton (1925 – 2004): A pioneering geophysicist
Dr Violet Rosemary Strachan Hutton graduated from St Andrews University in 1948 and a few years thereafter embarked upon a…
Women and people of colour written out of history
From Herodotus to Gibbon to Buckle, the greatest historians are all men. And it made sense; for centuries men controlled…
Woke: Compliment or criticism, it is now fuelling the culture wars
“Woke” is described as being alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice, along with being aware of what’s going…
Progress on gender parity in research ‘set back a year’ by Covid
Academia’s slow progress towards gender parity has been set back by at least a year because of the pandemic, according…
Edinburgh TV Festival: Diversity is put front and centre
Diversity and equality were at the heart of discussions last week when TV titans rolled into Edinburgh for its annual…
Elinor Wight Gardner (1892–1981) – first female geoarcheologist
Elinor Wight Gardner studied at Cambridge University before they granted degrees to women. During her career, Gardner worked in challenging…
Freelance gender pay gap needs more attention
At the moment the gender pay gap stands at a 15.5% pay disparity between men and women across the UK.…
The impact of Covid-19 on mothers working in UK Higher Education Institutions
Durham University has been looking at how the impact of Covid-19 has been disproportionately experienced by different groups of people.…
Edinburgh University: Former professor awarded £50,000 after her life was “destroyed” when she reported perceived sex discrimination
Professor Roya Sheikholeslami, 63, had a well-established career in chemical processing when she arrived in Scotland in 2007 but was…
Uncovering the Mary Rose’s ethnically diverse crew
Archaeologists from Cardiff University say evidence from the remains recovered of the 179 crew members suggests the warship’s crew came…