Category: Science
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So you want to be a world-famous scientist?
Here are five tips based on success stories of the past but designed for ambitious young women of today In 1909, the Australian suffragist Muriel Matters hit headlines around the world when she flew over London in a dirigible, showering the crowds below her with thousands of campaign leaflets. Although British women were still not…
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More than words – creating gender balance in the science classroom
By Dr Richard Walding, Griffith University and Moreton Bay College, Brisbane The term ‘gender balanced’ graces the back cover of many educational publications, and the first two editions of my Oxford University Press resource New Century Senior Physics make such a claim. The text has been sold in Queensland over the past 18 years, with…
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2014 Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching
The recipients of the 2014 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science were announced at a black-tie awards dinner on Wednesday 29 October in the Great Hall of Parliament House in Canberra. Representing the nation’s finest awards for excellence in science and science teaching, the five prizes awarded in 2014 were: Prime Minister’s Prize for Science Frank…