Women of the Future video directory

Women of the Future 2020 presents women working in STEMM.

We are very grateful to everyone who gave their time to produce these short films exploring their lives in science and technology. The films vary in length and style and all were made under the various restrictions imposed by Covid-19.

Click the video titles for more information on the women, their work and their stories.

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)
• ‘Seabed 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 art 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)