SLMS Academic Careers Office
UCL Women
UCL Women’s April networking event will take place on Monday, 15th April from 12.30pm in the Psychology Department, 26 Bedford Way, 3rd Floor, Room 305
UCL Women proudly present a talk by Francesca Happé:
My mum's a scientist: Thinking about young children and science
Francesca Happé will reprise her highly acclaimed Annual WiSETI Lecture that she gave on 15 March at Cambridge. She is an inspiring role model and a brilliant lecturer. There is a small cafeteria next door where you can get lunch and coffee; after the talk we will network until 2.30pm.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Remember, UCL Women is a networking group for female academics (postdoc and higher) in the STEM disciplines.
Biography: Professor Francesca Happé
Happé is Director of the Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry. She is also a UCL alumna. Her research interests centre on autism and Asperger Syndrome. She won the Telegraph's Young Science Writer award, and has taken part in many documentaries, as well as being the subject of a Channel 4 programme for schools. A mum of three, she has developed a set of children's books promoting female scientists and was a Royal Institution 'Scientist for the New Century' lecturer. She has received a number of awards including the British Psychological Society Spearman Medal and the 2011 Royal Society's Rosalind Franklin Award.
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UCL Women are pleased to announce our next lunchtime networking event, which will take place on Thursday, 14 March in Room 347 at 16 Taviton Street (the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies) from 13.00-14.00.
Please bring your own lunch if you'd like to eat, and be prepared to meet and chat with like-minded women on a drop-in basis - there is no formal structure to this event, but we will be discussing an exciting and relevant topic.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Remember, UCL Women is a networking group for female academics (postdoc and higher) in the STEM disciplines.
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In celebration of International Women’s Day, the networking group UCL Women is pleased to present Chamber Music by Female Composers: A Musical Kaleidoscope Across the Centuries. Conceived and produced by Helene Albrecht with Young Musicians from the London Guildhall School of Music, this concert will take place in the Housman Room at 8.30 PM on Friday, 8 March.
Admission is free and all are welcome, including non-UCL friends. The young musicians will be playing music from women throughout the ages, many of whom were dismissed because of their gender but who are now considered the equals of some of their famous male contemporaries or relatives. These include Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Hildegard von Bingen and others.
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UCL Women Launch - please click here to see photos of the event
UCL Women launched with a bang on
Wednesday, 16th January with a packed room of a hundred female academics
(postdocs and above) in the area of sciences, engineering and maths. We heard
from a diverse panel of women about how their careers have panned out and what
influences have helped them to succeed.
Later, we opened up the floor to the audience and discussed various issues that
women in science face and how we might want the network to function – both
philosophically and logistically. The consensus was that we’d appreciate both
opportunities for informal drop-in sessions, where we can chat and meet new
people, and periodic events where we can enjoy one another’s company in a more
structured way.
Please watch this
website or follow us on Twitter (@UCLWomen) to
get the latest news. If you aren’t already on Twitter, we can highly recommend
this as a good networking tool in itself. We want to avoid emails lists as they
make a lot of work for a few people.
In parallel, we are planning a more interactive web space
where everyone interested in suggesting the Network’s direction can give
suggestions. We want the group to be grassroots and self-organizing, though the
core group will obviously have a hand in making sure things run smoothly. Keep
an eye on this page for updates about the new web space.
Just a reminder about who the Network is for:
Academic staff (postdocs and above) in STEM at UCL. Due to
the very large numbers interested, at this time we have to restrict ourselves
to STEM and to postdocs and above; networks are sensitive to scale, and
logistics are influenced by it. In the future we may be able to relax out
criteria or aid spin-out groups, but in the meantime we are sorry to disappoint
some people and we hope you understand our restrictions.
Any eligible staff can come, even if they could not attend
the launch event.
You don’t have to attend every event to be part of the
Network. We want this to be as fluid and useful as possible. We will vary the
days of the week when we meet to help ensure that no one person is excluded
from all events.
We look forward to meeting new colleagues and making UCL a better place for all
of us.
