How a young physicist’s job move helped Argentina join the ATLAS collaboration
María Teresa Dova describes how an early career move to CERN as the first Latin American scientist to join Europe’s organisation for nuclear research ultimately benefited both her but also the researc...
15 Apr 202421min
How to plug the female mentoring gap in Latin American science
A 2021 report by the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean revealed that only 18% of public universities in the region had female rectors. Vanessa Gott...
5 Apr 202415min
‘Maybe I was never meant to be in science’: how imposter syndrome seizes scientist mothers
Fernanda Staniscuaski earned her PhD aged 27. Five years later she had a child. But in common with many scientist mothers, Staniscuaski, a biologist at Brazil’s Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul...
29 Mars 202420min
‘Hopeless, burnt out, sad’: how political change is impacting female researchers in Latin America
Paleontologists Ana Valenzuela-Toro and Mariana Viglino outline some of the challenges shared by researchers across Latin America. These include funding, language barriers, journal publication fees an...
22 Mars 202421min
How we connect girls in Brazil to inspiring female scientists
In 2013 physicist Carolina Brito co-launched Meninas na Ciência (Girls in Science), a program based at Brazil’s Federal University of Rio Grande de Sul.The program exposes girls to university life, in...
18 Mars 202410min
‘There is no cookie cutter female scientist’
In her role as Vice Rector for research partnerships and collaboration at the University of the Valley in Guatemala City, Monica Stein works to strengthen science and technology ecosystems in the Cent...
8 Mars 202427min
How Tiger Worm toilets could help to deliver clean water and sanitation for all
Laure Sione’s postdoctoral research at Imperial College London addresses the sixth of the 17 United Nations SDGs, but, she argues, sanitation also plays a huge role in gender equality (SDG 5) and good...
1 Mars 202420min
How we boosted female faculty numbers in male-dominated departments
In 2016 the University of Melbourne, Australia, asked for female-only applicants when it advertised three vacancies in its School of Mathematics and Statistics. It repeated the exercise in 2018 and 20...
23 Feb 202420min
