Women of the Future 2020
Our Women of the Future (now called Find My Future) event in 2020 took a slightly differt form, going digital, due the the global pandemic and the various restrictions in place at the time.
We are very grateful to everyone who gave their time to produce short films exploring their lives in science and technology. The films vary in length and style and can all be found on the John Innes Centre’s YouTube channel’s dedicated playlist. Below is a list of the wonderful STEM professionals who supported our virtual event, and you can watch their videos and find out more information on the women, their work and their stories using the links to their videos.
Keynote speakers
- ‘Wildlife biology’ – Lucy Eckersley and Emily Madsen (50 minutes)
- ‘Meerkats and Microbes : Becoming a Professor of Evolutionary Biology‘ – Ashleigh Griffin (32 minutes)
Biology
- ‘How do plants attract pollinators, and ensure their pollen gets to the correct species?’ – Kelsey Byers (8 minutes)
- ‘Producing proteins in plants’ – Leaf Expressions (7 minutes)
- ‘Learning to love plants’ – Penny Hundleby (28 minutes)
- ‘Understanding sick plants’ – Wenbo Ma (7 minutes)
- ‘The power of weeds’ – Dana MacGregor (5 minutes)
- ‘Big study of tiny things’ – Kathy Stratton and Isabel Diez Santos (14 minutes)
- ‘Not just a bird brain’ – Claudia Martin (14 minutes)
- ‘Developmental biology’ – Alice Godden and Shannon Weldon (15 minutes)
- ‘A Day in the Life: Zoologist‘ – Bushra Abu-Helil (2 minutes)
Engineering and technology
- ‘Leading international engineers’ – Angela Ellmore (12 minutes)
- ‘Woman and machine in harmony’ – Noelia Dominguez Falcon (15 minutes)
- ‘Undersea robots’ – Beth Siddle (13 minutes)
- ‘Sea bed computer power’ – Chloe Game (14 minutes)
- ‘Safely supplying gas’ – Shell (25 minutes)
Medicine and health
- ‘Exploring food and health; Part 1’ – Patricia Hart, Anne Jordan, Helene Savignac and Claire Daniels (19 minutes)
- ‘Exploring food and health; Part 2’ – Lizzie Meadows, Priscilla Day-Walsh, Nicol Janecko and Jenny Plum (21 minutes)
- ‘Improving healthcare’ – Natalie Richards (2 minutes)
- ‘From arts to medicine’ – Louisa Sowah Quarshie (18 minutes)
- ‘Medical device design’ – Carol Balfour (21 minutes)
- ‘Studying biomedicine’ – Amal Khizer (9 minutes)
- ‘Anthropology in action’ – Karolina Kuberska (5 minutes)
- ‘First in the family’ – Elizabeth Allum (13 minutes)
- ‘Top scorer’ – Ellen Boucher (10 minutes)
- ‘Clinical DJ’ – Penny Trayner (4 minutes)
- ‘Finding pharmacy’ – Emma Thompson (12 minutes)
- ‘Biochemical helps and hazards’ – By Shona Hepworth and Gemma Beasy (17 minutes)
- ‘Experiences of COVID-19 patients’ – Annelieke Driessen (9 minutes)
Maths
- ‘Maths in the field’ – Kirsty Hassall (5 minutes)