What is your scientific superpower? What does it mean to you to be a woman in STEMM?
Tell us your story for the chance to nominate a school to receive copies of Dr Lorena Escudero Sánchez's inspiring book, "Heroines of Science". We'll also feature the successful entries on our website during Postdoc Appreciation Week 2024.
Heroines of Science
As part of her Borysiewicz Interdisciplinary Fellowship, Dr Lorena Escudero Sánchez designed a project to encourage more young girls to study science. After interviewing female researchers working on different STEMM disciplines around the world (Peru, Brazil, Mexico, USA, Italy, Austria, Senegal, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, India, Taiwan, Malaysia and Australia), Lorena wrote stories about these heroines of science, each one with her own characteristic scientific superpower.
These stories have been illustrated and transformed into a bilingual school diary. Initially printed in English and Spanish, they have recently been translated into Amharic and a few hundred copies have been sent to Ethiopia to be distributed in schools there!
Postdoc Appreciation Week Competition
To celebrate Postdoc Appreciation Week, we want to encourage women researchers (and those who identify as women) across the University to share stories about their work and their scientific inspiration.
To enter the competition, write a short story about your research, explaining what your scientific superpower is and how it might change the world, in a maximum of 300 words.
The stories should be accessible for girls (aged 10-12 years old) and should also portray how you were inspired to do science when you were young or what it means for you to be a woman in STEMM.
Six successful entries will be selected, and their stories will be shared on the Postdoc Academy website during Postdoc Appreciation Week 2024. In addition, they will be able to choose a school anywhere in the world to receive three copies of the Heroines of Science diary.
Entries to the competition should be received by 15 August and the successful entries will be announced during Postdoc Appreciation Week (15-20 September).