BBC Radio Lincolnshire’s Nicola Gilroy will host a special festival Thursday edition of her Lunch Bunch programme on 25 September with three of the UK’s leading female scientists.
The Women in Science debate and question and answer session focus on the role of women, to be broadcast from St Wulfram’s Church with festival goers part of the live broadcast.
Panellists are physicist Professor Valerie Gibson, zoologist and environmentalist Sasha Norris, and Liz Beckmann, past-President of the British Institute of Radiology.
They examine the place women scientists have held in history, and the role they play now and in the future. The audience is asked to arrive at 11.40am for the free one hour event, to be seated by 11.45am for live broadcast at noon.
Prof Val Gibson, the festival’s first patron, is Professor of High Energy Physics at the University of Cambridge and a UK spokesperson for CERN – the European Council for Nuclear Research – in Geneva.
Liz Beckmann, formerly one of very few women studying engineering at King’s College, London, has worked in the medical imaging world for over 30 years. She is currently a Fellow and Past President of the British Institute of Radiology.
Sasha Norris, zoologist, has worked for the Discovery Channel, BBC Wildlife, the Guardian and Oxford Today as well as being a regular features writer for the RSPB.
South Kesteven District Council portfolio holder Coun Frances Cartwright, who once ran an engineering company, has a personal interest in how the role of women in science is changing.
She said: “Hearing the views of such successful women should be inspirational encouragement to all girls to consider science as a really worthwhile career option.
“These women are all achievers in their own fields, proof that women can succeed and reach the top in what was once considered male dominated fields.”
Zoologist Sasha Norris
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