A SPECIALIST project to help increase the number of women in STEM fields has been launched at a Wales-wide event.
The University of South Wales (USW), with the support of funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW), is leading the way by establishing the Wales Women in STEM Network.
Dr Tara Shine is an environmental scientist who co-founded Change by Degrees. She spoke about “Change”, what that means and how we feel about it. She also talked about her recent trip to Antartica which she undertook with a programme called Homeward Bound.
Dr Tara Shine, of Change By Degrees, remarks on ‘New Horizons: A Future Perspective’ at the closing plenary of Ireland’s National Biodiversity Conference: New Horizons for Nature, which was held at Dublin Castle on 20 and 21 February. www.biodiversityconference.ie #biodcon19
“You can’t be what you can’t see” is a phrase used to explain in part why women are underrepresented in the Stem disciplines (science, technology, engineers and maths). Without female role models women and girls are less likely to pursue a Stem career.
Have you ever stopped to wonder how we got ourselves in this mess? Wrapped up in plastic, carbon emissions spiralling, a few rich people owning most of the world’s resources? Surely, there is a better way of doing things. A new way of living that is more compatible with the ability of planet Earth to provide the resources we need to live.
A KINSALE based environmental scientist is joining 80 women from around the world on an expedition to Antarctica.
Dr Tara Shine, co–founder of Plastic Free Kinsale and the award winning social enterprise Change by Degrees, left Ireland on the 27th of December to join the select group of female scientists from around the world on the leadership expedition to what’s one of the most ecologically sensitive places on earth.Tara, an advisor on climate change, is the first woman living in Ireland to be selected for the programme.
The prospect of a polar plunge in the depths of Antarctica is enough to make anyone’s teeth chatter. But that’s how Cork environmental scientist and climate change consultant Dr Tara Shine celebrated the new year — for a good cause and as a personal challenge.
