Keynote Speaker - Dame Julia Higgins
AN INVITATION TO A CELEBRATION OF WOMEN IN SCIENCE: AN INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION
The University of Liverpool, Wikimedia UK and the Medical Research Council are pleased to welcome, Chemical Engineer, Professor Dame Julia Higgins as Key Note Speaker at a celebration of the role women play in science. The Key note talk will be followed by a panel discussion of women’s contribution to science and the barriers that continue to limit the number of women who are able to progress to the top of their field. Professor Dame Julia Higgins will be accompanied on the panel by Obstetrician and Provost, Professor Ian Greer, Physiologist, Professor Sue Wray, Particle Physicist, Professor Tara Shears, Anthropologist, Professor Jude Robinson and MRC Early Career Research Fellows, Pharmacologist, Dr Lauren Walker and Rheumatologist, Dr Sarah Skeoch.
The event is open to all and will take place from 5:00 – 7:30pm on 13th May 2014 at the University of Liverpool, Cancer Research UK Centre, 200 London Road, Liverpool, L3 9TA (Main entrance on Daulby Street). If you have queries about the event please email organiser, Angela Foxcroft (Foxcroft@liv.ac.uk).
Attendance is free, but booking through EventBrite is essential: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-science-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-13-may-2014-university-of-liverpool-tickets-10871433751
Julia Higgins: “From 2008 to 2012 she chaired the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME) and was Chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council from 2003 to 2007. In 1999, Dame Julia was elected as Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She was president of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in 2002-03, and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science from 2003–04.She is an FRS, Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, Royal Society of Chemistry. She is an honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics”