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Dame Prof Athene Donald to talk about Women in Science

Dame Prof Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics at University of Cambridge, will be coming to the University of Birmingham talk about Women in Science on 9th October at 1pm, the venue is Lecture Theatre 301 in the School of Bisociences.

University of Birmingham Aston Webb building

Dame Professor Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics at University of Cambridge, will be visiting the University of Birmingham on Wednesday 9 October at 1pm to give a talk entitled "Facilitating women's progression to the top". The talk is to be held in Lecture Theatre 301 in the School of Biosciences.

Athene Donald seminar

Professor Donald is also Cambridge University's gender equality champion. She chairs the Athena forum and is on the Royal Society's equality and diversity network.  

Her homepage is here:
http://www.bss.phy.cam.ac.uk/~amd3/

Her Guardian Blog is here (examples):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/occams-corner/2013/jun/17/government-royal-society-moral-imperative-equality
http://occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald/2013/04/07/systematic-errors-of-judgement/