"We hope that others will learn from and be inspired by the work that their peers and colleagues are undertaking"
Materials Today and Elsevier are delighted to announce the seven shortlisted nominations for the Materials Today Agents of Change Awards. The recipients of the awards will be announced by 30th November 2019.
The overviews of the shortlisted initiatives should provide the materials science community with an insight into the breadth and quality of approaches that are being undertaken to help create a more inclusive and diverse community. We hope that others will learn from and be inspired by the work that their peers and colleagues are undertaking and we look forward to announcing the award recipients soon!
Meet the shortlisted entries below (in no particular order):
· Dr Silvia Casassa, University of Turin, Italy and colleagues, and their approach to making an annual International School event held in Turin a gender-gap free event. Click here to find out more.
· Prof. Rachel Oliver, University of Cambridge, UK, and The Inclusion Group for Equity in Research in STEMM (TIGERS), and how they want to understand barriers and biases in research funding faced by scientists who are members of typically under-represented minorities. Click here to find out more.
· Prof. Dr Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, Prof. Alke Fink and Dr Sofía Martín Caba at Université de Fribourg, Switzerland and making professional role confidence a key part of educating the next generation of materials scientists. Click here to find out more.
· Dr Valeria Rodionova and the launch of a series of colloquia addressing specific challenges that women face in undertaking research in materials science. They would be held in schools and universities across the Kaliningrad region of Russia. Click here to find out more.
· Dr Cecilia Leal and Dr Robert Maass, University of Illinois, USA and their annual summer-camp in Materials Science and Engineering devoted to middle-schoolers (MidGLAM: Middle-school Girls Learning About Materials). Click here to find out more.
· Lanell Williams, Harvard University, The Women+ of Color Project (WOCP). Click here to find out more.
· Dr Katalin Balázsi, Centre for Energy Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary, and the ‘Girls Days’ she organises in laboratory for high school students. Click here to find out more.
The Agents of Change awards are supported by Materials Today and Elsevier, and follows the Gender in the Global Research Landscape report on research performance through a gender lens (https://www.elsevier.com/research-intelligence/campaigns/gender-17).
If you would like to find out more about the next iteration of the report, due to be launched in 2020, please sign up here: https://www.elsevier.com/research-intelligence/resource-library/gender-report-2020.