Suffrage Science Awards Night 2020: Reflection and Action
A year like no other made for an unconventional Suffrage Science awards night. Two handovers of the scheme, which celebrates and inspires...
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Suffrage Science
- Nov 10, 2020
- 4 min
Life Sciences 2020: Nomination Speeches
The 2018 Suffrage Science Awardees on why they have nominated the next recipients of their award. Professor Cathy Price of University...
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Sophie Arthur
- Nov 6, 2020
- 5 min
Awards 2020: Leading women in ‘life sciences’ and ‘mathematics & computing’ win award
Leading women scientists have been chosen by their peers to receive a prestigious award celebrating their achievements. The winners will...
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Sophie Arthur
- Oct 22, 2020
- 5 min
Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Professor Gisou van der Goot
“I had zero exposure to science growing up” Professor Gisou van der Goot is a molecular biologist whose research group studies aspects of...
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Sophie Arthur
- Oct 15, 2020
- 3 min
Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Dr Cécile Martinat
Dr Cécile Martinat, of the Institute for Stem Cell Therapy and Exploration of Monogenic Diseases (I-Stem), France, has been chosen to...
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Sophie Arthur
- Oct 9, 2020
- 5 min
Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Professor Zena Werb
“They wouldn’t let me go [on the summer field trip] because I was female” – Werb, 2010 Professor Zena Werb was a world-renowned cell...
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Sophie Arthur
- Oct 1, 2020
- 5 min
Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Professor Samantha ‘Mandy’ Joye
“Most people love to go swimming and such but I always loved stinky water” Professor Samantha ‘Mandy’ Joye is an internationally...
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Sophie Arthur
- Sep 24, 2020
- 5 min
Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Professor Claudia Mazzà
"My maths teacher was always telling me ‘you should be an engineer’” Professor Claudia Mazzà is a bioengineer whose research focuses on...
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Katy Pallister
- Sep 17, 2020
- 5 min
Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Professor Karalyn Patterson
"Before I went to university, I had hoped for a career in music” Professor Karalyn Patterson is a pioneer of cognitive neuropsychology,...
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Katy Pallister
- Sep 10, 2020
- 5 min
Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Associate Professor Laura Colgin
“When I was a teenager I wanted to start running some kind of experiment on my pet rat” Associate Professor Colgin is a neuroscientist...
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Katy Pallister
- Sep 3, 2020
- 5 min
Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Dr Veronique Miron
“[Growing up] I certainly wasn't aware that there were any female scientists at all” Dr Veronique Miron is a senior lecturer and...
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Lauren Green
- Aug 27, 2020
- 4 min
Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Dr Kelly Nguyen
“I had a very good chemistry teacher who really got me hooked into science as a career” Dr Kelly Nguyen is a structural biologist who is...
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Katy Pallister
- Aug 21, 2020
- 5 min
Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Associate Professor Naomi Matsuura
“If someone said ‘Oh, this is going to be really hard to do,’ I knew I wanted to do it.” Associate Professor Matsuura is a medical...
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Katy Pallister
- Aug 14, 2020
- 5 min
Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Professor Elspeth Garman
“I don't want a job because I'm a woman, I want a job because I'm the best person for the job.” Professor Garman is a renowned molecular...
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Suffrage Science
- Jul 19, 2018
- 4 min
Life Sciences 2018: Suffrage Science Celebrates Fantastic Women In Science Today
Every two years 11 inspirational female scientists are recognised and celebrated through the Suffrage Science Life Sciences awards....
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Suffrage Science
- Jun 6, 2018
- 6 min
Life Sciences 2018: Nomination and Acceptance Speeches
On the awards night, nomination and acceptance speeches were read out whilst the piece of heirloom jewellery was passed from the current...
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Suffrage Science
- Jun 6, 2018
- 2 min
Life Sciences 2018: Leading Female Scientists Awarded Suffrage Science Heirlooms
Leading female scientists will be awarded scientific heirlooms by their peers at the fifth Suffrage Science awards for Life Sciences on...
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Suffrage Science
- May 6, 2016
- 2 min
Life Sciences 2016: Artist Brings DNA Ribbons To Suffrage Science
The latest Suffrage Science artwork is complete, with a strong theme around ribbons, DNA and making connections. Marta Pinilla Martinez...
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Susan Watts
- Mar 18, 2016
- 6 min
Life Sciences 2016: Creating A Web Of Women In Science
It was one of the most striking moments of the evening, and it came in the acceptance speech of Dr Sally John, a Suffrage Science awardee...
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Suffrage Science
- Mar 9, 2016
- 25 min
Life Sciences 2016: Nomination And Acceptance Speeches
A new generation of women in science has joined the growing tree of awardees recognised under the Suffrage Science scheme, established by...
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