Current Job: Community Relations Officer Scientific Discipline/Field: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math Country: USA Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): B What does your job involve? My job is split between running my lab's community outreach and educational programs and running the site's internal communications. How did you get to this job (education etc.)? I got this job through my... Continue Reading →
Current Job: Senior Developer at epiGenesys Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of The University of Sheffield. Scientific Discipline/Field: Software Engineering Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): G Website: http://www.jgxenite.org/ What does your job involve? Many things! I'm a software developer by trade, so my job mostly revolves around speaking to customers, investigating the problems they want... Continue Reading →
This list of University LGBT Staff associations is based on sites easily google-able (and it is a work in progress) - if your association isn't on here, it's just because it wasn't found in our initial search, feel free to send us the details to stemlgbt@gmail.com and we'll add it in. Canada University of Toronto... Continue Reading →
Current Job: PhD student at the University of Sheffield Scientific Discipline/Field: Ecology/Biogeochemistry Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): G What does your job involve? I’m a 2nd year PhD student at the University of Sheffield looking into the role of vegetation in methane fluxes across Arctic tundra in Alaska. The ultimate goal of my PhD is understanding the... Continue Reading →
Current Job: Database development officer Scientific Discipline/Field: ICT / Computer Science Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): I ID as gay, but technically I'm a lesbian. What does your job involve? Working with people, writing specifications, writing and testing code, writing, testing and optimising reports, lots of email, lots of phone calls and lots of learning. How did... Continue Reading →
Current Job: Research Analyst Scientific Discipline/Field: Analytical Chemistry Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): L Website? Twitter, Website What does your job involve? I work as a research analyst in the Organic Geochemistry Unit at a UK university. My job is partially a technical role troubleshooting and (theoretically!) fixing analytical instrumentation when things go wrong, along with... Continue Reading →
Current Job: Graduate Research Assistant at University of Tennessee, Knoxville Scientific Discipline/Field: Medical and Veterinary Entomology Country: USA Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): L & Q Website? Twitter, Linkedin What does your job involve? I do research on insects and sometimes ticks that transmit pathogens to humans and animals. I've worked with mosquitoes, house flies, horse flies, and... Continue Reading →
Current Job: Lecturer in Mathematics Scientific Discipline/Field: Mathematics Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): G, living a life of domestic bliss with my long term boyfriend and our two sons. Website? http://www.reading.ac.uk/maths-and-stats/about/Staff/calvin-smith.aspx What does your job involve? I hold a teaching intensive lectureship in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Reading. The main... Continue Reading →
Current Job: Senior Conservation Scientist, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Scientific Discipline/Field: Ecology & Conservation Biology Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): G Website? labandfield.wordpress.com / alexanderbond.org What does your job involve? I do research to support conservation efforts in the UK Overseas Territories, and build capacity with local partners. Right now, this means supporting our efforts on Tristan... Continue Reading →
Current Job: Research Associate, Epigenetics Unit, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London Scientific Discipline/Field: Cancer Epigenetics, mainly ovarian and breast Epigenetics is broadly defined by changes to the DNA or the proteins which package DNA (chromatin) and affect how genes are expressed, without changing DNA sequence. Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): L Twitter: @cassyorkirsty What... Continue Reading →
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