To mark International Women in Engineering Day, meet Explainer Team Leader Pippi Carty-Hornsby and find out how she went from making paper dolls houses to building racing cars and working our historic cotton mill machines.
This year’s British Science Week theme is all about journeys, so we spoke to some of our amazing female STEM Ambassadors about their journey to their careers, and asked for some sage advice for anyone who wants to follow in their footsteps.
To celebrate the United Nation’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, aspiring scientist and Marketing Manager Nancy Hopkins picks her top three women of science with a Manchester connection.
Think of a scientist. What do you picture? The stereotypical answer (and the one we’re trying hard to change) would be a man, maybe in a lab coat. But even a century ago, that wasn’t necessarily the case.
You have probably at some point eaten sushi—the traditional Japanese food made from rice, fish and seaweed.
Life for female engineers in the 1970s was very different, as items discovered in our archives show.
Dr Jessica Wade asks, “why is getting girls into STEM still an issue, and what can we do to change things?”
Did you know there’s a Hollywood star who also has a secret life as a scientist?