The Gender Issues Committee and the Department of Gender Studies will be hosting a session on Women in Science titled ‘From folding to FRS: Navigating a career in science’ delivered by Professor Sheena Radford on 25 October 2017 from 14:00 to 15:00 at the Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences (MAKS), Room 414.
Have you found difficulties in working in a male-dominated scientific world? Are there barriers to progressing as a women in science or is science agnostic to gender? In this session I will recall my own experience in developing my career in science and share experiences good and not-so-good! This will be an informal session with time devoted to question and answer so we can share issues and ideas between all that attend. So please bring questions and comments with you, or come along if you want just to listen. All are very welcome.
Professor Sheena Radford is director of the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology at the University of Leeds for Structural Molecular Biology. She is interested in how proteins are able to fold and assemble into complex functional entities and how protein misfolding can lead to cellular dysfunction and disease, such as Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease. One of her other interests activities is to promote Women in Science.
Professor Sheena Radford obtained a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham and a PhD at the University of Cambridge. She joined the University of Leeds in 1995, became Professor in 2000, Director of the Astbury Centre in 2012 and Astbury Professor of Biophysics in 2013.
Sheena's leading research into protein dynamics and its role in human diseases has been recognised by numerous awards including Fellowships of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the European Molecular Biology Organisation, the American Biophysical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Sheena has published 270 papers, given 360 invited lectures at national and international meetings, supervised 100 postdoctoral researchers and Ph.D. students and serves on many national and international committees.
