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Category: STEM

Seeing Science in the Stars: Constance Naden’s sonnets and the night sky

20th May 202020th May 2020  Clare Stainthorp

When nineteenth-century scientist, philosopher and poet, Constance Naden, contemplated the night sky, she saw a universe full of vitality. Here, Clare Stainthorp, reflects on Naden’s sonnets and the starry cosmos that inspired them.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Poetry, STEMTagged: Clare Stainthorp, Constance Naden, History of Atheism, New Woman, Night, Night / Shift, Night Sky, Nineteenth-Century Britain, Nineteenth-century poetry, Poetry, Sonnets, Star, Starry Night, Victorian Literature

It’s time for Athena SWAN to be intersectional at the departmental level.

30th April 201930th April 2019  Furaha Asani

Deploring the lack of diversity in academia, Dr Furaha Asani calls for greater accountability and reflection within STEMM departments through initiatives like the Athena SWAN award.

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Posted in Opinion, Postgraduate Corner, STEMTagged: Athena SWAN, Athena SWAN Silver award, Feminism, Gender Equality, Gender equity, Higher Education, Intersectional Feminism, Intersectionality in Academia, Scientific Women's Academic Network, STEM, STEMM, University

Game of Stones: Recognizing Victorian Geologist Mary Anning

20th February 201927th February 2019  Kim Kean

Kim Kean discusses the lack of recognition of female geologists through the life of ninteenth-century fossil hunter Mary Anning.

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Posted in Environment, STEMTagged: Feminism, geology, recognition, scientist, STEM, Steminist, Women in education, Women's Rights

Review of The Sun: Living With Our Star at the Science Museum

12th December 20184th February 2019  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Arts editor, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou is dazzled by the Science Museum’s current exhibition, The Sun: Living With Our Star.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Environment, STEMTagged: Apollo, Climate Change, Copernicus, Etienne Trouvelot, Galileo, Health, Helios, James Nasmyth, Jimmy Carter, Myth, NASA, Newton, Sol, Solar energy, Star, sun
  • Magic by Moonlight: Kirsten Glass’ Night-Scented Stock at Karsten Schubert, London
    By Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
  • Picturing Loss: On Francesca Woodman by Lisa Goodrum
    By Lisa Goodrum
  • Beyond the Confines of Nell Brookfield’s Canvas
    By Rachel Ashenden
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