Women in physics
Information about Women in Pysics
Useful resources
Information and Advice
Funding and Grant Opportunities
All, some American only: Association for Women in Science
All: The Nuffield Foundation
All: The Royal Society of Chemistry
All: The Women's Engineering Society
All: The IOP
Imperial Students: The IC Trust
Undergrads and postgrads: The Institution of Engineering and Technology 's Ambition Awards
Third-year doctoral students on the basis of academic excellence British Federation of Women Graduates
The Institute of Physics' Very Early Career Woman Physicist of the Year
Postgraduate and postdoctoral: Fulbright Awards
Female postgraduates: Funds for Women Graduates
Exceptional needs for either research or other costs: Daphne Jackson Trust Special Discretionary Fund
Travel/ Equipment: The Royal Society
Annual poster competition: SET for Britain
Various grants lists:
For information on outreach/ public engagement funding, get in touch with a WiP champion.
UK universities Women in Physics Societies
Good Reads
SPIE paper on women in Physics in a Spanish university
SPIES Women in Physics newsletter
Professor Mommy: Finding Work/Family Balance in Academia ISBN-13: 978-1442208599
House of Commons, Women in Scientific Careers
Lober Newsome (2008) The Chemistry PhD: The impact on women’s retention. A report for the UKRC and the Royal Society of Chemistry
The superwoman fallacy: what it really takes to be an academic and parent (2012) - Guardian article
Off campus events around London
News
All news19 July 2018
Royal Society medals go to three Imperial academics11 July 2018
Four academics awarded Institute of Physics medals24 November 2017
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