Click on the book to turn its pages and explore the history of Dashwood School. When my family moved to Banbury in 2006, we looked for a school for our son Jonathan, who was then three. Just across the road from our house was Dashwood, a town-centre school which turned out to have just the…
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How can science capital research help museums and science centres change the world? Report on work by the Science Museum Group’s learning team.
How can museums contribute to a fairer society? I worked with the Science Museum Learning team to summarise a recent big project looking at ways in which museum and science centres can foster diversity in science (and avoid reinforcing barriers to entry and interest). The Science Capital in Practice (SCIP) programme shared findings at the…
Celebrating women’s history month: you didn’t HAVE to be called William or Henry to achieve scientific success in the past, but it definitely helped.
When I was searching out colourful chemistry stories for my book Cracking the Elements, I kept running into something a bit weird. In standard accounts of the development of the periodic table, there were almost ridiculous numbers of people called William and Henry. I didn’t discount any of these fine men. I ended up including…