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NEWS17 Feb 2023News

International Women’s Day

Women in STEM

A selection of events, case studies and inspiration with examples from the archives considering different aspects relating to global women in science, that are relevant to all audiences.

Background

The UN’s International Women’s Day takes place on 8th March, and in 2023 it has a theme of “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”.

International Women's Day is celebrated in many countries around the world. It is a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political.

Case studies and examples

Previously EURAXESS UK has highlighted a range of inspirational case studies from women in science including

  • British Council Women in STEM scholar and working mother, Yngrid Machado from Venezuela who has been studying an MSc  in New and Renewable Energy at Durham University - find out more
  • Masoma Hassani from Afghanistan who has been studying Public Health and Health Promotion at Brunel University. Find out more.
  • Piangfan Naksukpaiboon from Thailand, a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher at Queen’s University Belfast and neurodiversity champion. Find out more.
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship previous grantee Peggy Assinck, a Multiple Sclerosis researcher at the University of Edinburgh. Find our more.
  • Vivian Petersen Wagner, a research fellow from Brazil who studied at the University of Sheffield’s School of Dentistry having successfully applied for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellowship in 2020. More details here.

Other organisations such as Cancer Research UK also have their own case studies as shown in the website piece ‘Three women in science share their stories'.

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Events

There is still time to explore and register for a number of international events relating to International Women’s Day (selected from the UN’s main overview of activities for 2023):

A ‘dip’ into the archives – previous articles and videos

A few years back, Wendy Sadler from Science Made Simple produced this video about Delia Derbyshire for International Women’s Day. Delia was an inspirational early electronic music pioneer and researcher (who also created the Dr. Who theme!)

If you are interested in English Language Learning Resources then you could revisit the online magazine forInternational Day of Women and Girls in Scienceand these videos illustrating ‘How these women changed science forever’.

An interview with Bhavya Khullar is a science journalist based in Delhi gives you an insight regarding how she built her career as a science journalist.  If this has inspired our international audience, perhaps some may like to find out more about the Women in STEM Scholarships 2023 for internationals to come and research in the UK which are currently open to applications.

Are you doing your own activities for the International Day of Women? We would love to hear from you. Email euraxessuk@britishcouncil.org.