Events
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FEB 2022
Once again OxWiChem celebrated the IUPAC Global Women's Breakfast over delicious breakfast sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry. This year's theme "Empowering Diversity in Science" was aimed to create an active network of men and women paving the way for gender equality in science.
2022 IUPAC
Global Women's
Breakfast
OCTOBER 2021
A coffee afternoon was held to bring together female chemists across the whole Chemistry Department. Hot beverages and biscuits were kindly sponsored Merck.
Coffee afternoon
JULY 2020
Dr Rebecca Ruck, head of Process Research and Development at Merck, presented an online workshop for students and staff on implicit bias. She spoke about what unconscious bias is, how it affects decision making, and how to mitigate against it, provoking thoughtful discussion.
Implicit Bias Workshop
with
Dr Rebecca Ruck
FEB 2020
OxWiChem celebrated the IUPAC Global Women's Breakfast with an event including academic, administrative, and technical staff, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students. Our delicious breakfast was kindly sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
2020 IUPAC
Global Women's
Breakfast
Inaugural Invited Speaker Seminar
with
Professor Dame Carol Robinson
DEC 2019
OxWiChem was honoured to host our own Professor Dame Carol Robinson as our inaugural speaker. She outlined her illustrious and inspirational career in a seminar that was standing room only! She told us about her journey from leaving school at 16 to becoming the first female Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge and at Oxford, and her current role as the President of the Royal Society of Chemistry.