An Evening Out
Last night I was at the IOP Awards’ Dinner in London. Following the recent revamp of all the IOP Awards about three years ago, a new subject award – appropriately called the Franklin Medal to...
View ArticleA Work in Progress
No science discipline now can (or should) be seen as a silo, content to keep its boundaries closed against marauders from elsewhere. This is just as true of physics as any of the other sciences. For...
View ArticleLogic, What Logic?
This week I attended the Elizabeth Johnson lecture at the Institute of Physics, given by Mary Curnock Cook, chief executive of UCAS. Her topic was Gender Maps in Higher Education, and it explored the...
View ArticleWhy Lazy Stereotyping is Damaging
I was very pleased to hear a male academic referred to as ‘not a shrinking violet’ the other day. Not because I was feeling particularly vindictive towards the person concerned, but because I have...
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