Upcoming Events
The Royal Institution: “First light: Switching on stars at the dawn of time” – 7.00pm to 8.30pm, Tuesday 1 December
Order tickets here:
https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/events-2020/december/public-first-light
Recent Events
The Interplanetary Podcast – Monday 16th November
BBC Sky at Night Podcast – Thursday 22nd October
Previous Events and Media
- National Geographic, October 2019, https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/science-and-technology/2019/10/once-most-famous-scientists-were-men-thats-changing
- Guest on Victoria Derbyshire, LBC, Sky News and Channel 5 News, MP’s call for a ban on NDAs, June 2019
- Guest on Radio 4 Inside Science end of year special representing Astrophysics, Dec 2018
- Invited Commentary to Physics Today December Issue, https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4080
- Guest on Radio 4 Inside Science discussing women in STEM initiatives, August 2018
- “Report harassment or risk losing funding, says top UK science funder”, March 2018, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05071-7
- “Cosmic dawn: astronomers detect signals from first stars in the universe”, February 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/28/cosmic-dawn-astronomers-detect-signals-from-first-stars-in-the-universe
- Guest on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour on topic of sexual misconduct, February 2018
- Guest on sexual harassment in academia and Hollywood, BBC World News, BBC UK News, BBC Radio 4 “The World Tonight” (October 14/15 2017)
- Physics World Blog: http://blog.physicsworld.com/2017/07/28/bias-stereotyping-and-harassment-what-women-battle/#more-14619
- Contribution to “More universities must confront sexual harassment” editorial in Nature 547, 379 (27 July 2017) doi:10.1038/547379a
- Scientific advisor for Pioneer Productions, “The Universe and Me”, July 2017
- Panel member for Radio 4 “All in the Mind: Unconscious Bias” episode, a Royal Institution event (03 March 2017)
- Institute of Physics News article on PhD student culture, May 2015: http://www.iop.org/news/15/may/page_65667.html
Recent Outreach Talks
Science
- Babble Talks, June 2019 and Jan 2020
- Imperial Festival, Day in the Life talks, June 2019
- Friends of Imperial College London, “First Stars”, October 2018
- New Scientist Live, “First Stars”, September 2018, largest audience of the day.
- Euroscience Open Forum, “The Square Kilometer Array: showing the early stages of our Universe”, July 2018
- Cheltenham Science Festival, Panel Member, “Beyond Light: The Future of Astronomy”, June 2018
Diversity
- Cheltenham Science Festival, Panel Member, “Workplace Bullies”
- Gamechangers Conference, Turing Institute, “How to Moan Effectively and Effect Change”, September 2018
- Institute of Physics JUNO Diversity and Harassment Conference, “Sexual Misconduct in UK Universities”, August 2018
- “How do we Solve Science’s Problem with Women?”, Wellcome Collection, February 2018
- Panel member for “Bias in Science”, International Conference for Women in Physics, Birmingham, July 2017
