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.
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/