Welcome to ScienceGrrl

We are a grassroots UK network celebrating women and non-binary people in science, passing on our love of science to the next generation. Find out more about who we are and what we are doing.

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Latest News

Alex's PhD graduation with her three children

Children first: taking an unusual path to a STEM career

July 1, 2014

I’m Alex Blakemore and I’m Professor of Human Molecular Genetics at Imperial College London. My path to an academic career has been an unusual one.…

Happy Father’s Day – did I inherit the engineering gene?

June 14, 2014

My involvement in ScienceGrrl has led me to question how and why I ended up studying a STEM subject and if my own experience could…

Perceptions of physics

May 21, 2014

What do people think of when they hear the word “physics”? . When I tell people that I’m studying physics (I’m doing a PhD in…