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Education – a ‘troll’ free zone?
A blog like this cannot avoid commenting on the case of Caroline Criado Perez who has received rape and violence threats, and insults via Twitter after she campaigned successfully to have a picture of Jane Austen on new UK banknotes. … Continue reading
Education and The Feminine Mystique
This is a year for celebrating feminist anniversaries. In my post of the 6th June I wrote about a local celebration that of the centenary of Emily Wilding Davison’s death – under the title ‘Deeds not Words’. The 50 year … Continue reading
Celebration of deeds not words
The centenary of the death of Emily Wilding Davison, who was fatally injured apparently trying to attach a suffrage banner to the Kings horse running the Darby at Epsom, seems to have captured the imagination of the press this year … Continue reading
The strange education of politicians
It is well known in the UK that present Members of Parliament are drawn overwhelmingly from privileged educational backgrounds – 35% have attended independent fee paying schools, and 90% have undergraduate degrees. Since 1950 only three UK Prime-Ministers did not … Continue reading
Margaret Thatcher – Chemist.
No UK based blog about women can ignore the death this week of Margaret Thatcher. She has been too important for us all in the last 40 years, and not in ways that we enjoyed. For someone like me who … Continue reading
Last Exhibition at the Old Wash House
I am at the moment very ‘exercised’ about archives. I work in an institution that does not believe that academics – or anyone else for that matter- needs space for the physical storage of such things as print books and … Continue reading
Some girls get education, some get shot
It is too easy to slip into the frame of mind that thinks the battle for educational access and equality of treatment for girls and women is won when in many countries women are more the 50% undergraduates. They … Continue reading
Will the Finch Report kill off non-commercial open access journals?
I first wrote about open access publishing models last year in November. Because I work on two non-commercial open access journals that are produced almost completely by academic time, and a commercial journal that runs the usual subscription model I am … Continue reading
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Universities are no place for libraries – especially it seems the Women’s Library
Libraries with physical books and archives where people go to research and study are becoming for, many universities, expensive non-core functions that are in the first line for financial cuts. The library in my own university – state of the … Continue reading
Its a girl thing- but is it a science thing?
I have been suprised at the almost universal condemnation of the short video produced by the European Commission as part of a campaign to attract more young women to ‘do science’. You can see it on YouTube if you missed … Continue reading