International Women’s Day 2024

On 8 March we celebrated International Women’s Day! We aim to always #InspireInclusionat the UK Catalysis Hub. Find out more about our wonderful #womeninSTEM at https://ukcatalysishub.co.uk/women-in-science/

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International Women’s Day 2023

Happy International Women’s Day! Here are 5 popular webinars by inspirational scientists who have spoken to our catalysis community:  To watch more webinars and register for upcoming ones visit our Webinars page.

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Dr June Callison – Lab Manager

I am writing this almost nine years to the day that I joined the UK Catalysis Hub as a Research Technician. It was the beginning of the first phase of the Hub and I had heard of the job through previous colleagues, Emma Gibson and Ian Silverwood – both of…

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Prof. Adisa Azapagic

Professor of Sustainable Chemical Engineering, The University of Manchester What is your background? What made you decide to become a scientist? I am a chemical engineer by background. I was always technically-inclined and liked technical subjects in school, including maths and science, so studying engineering seemed only natural to me.…

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Reflections on an Asymmetric Career Path

This talk will provide short vignettes across my career, which began in academic heterogeneous catalysis research, moved though pharmaceutical process R&D, and back into academia, exploring homogeneous catalysis in the origin of biological homochirality. Research across chemistry and chemical engineering positions in three different countries led me from autocatalysis (automotive)…

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Gender Diversity and Inclusion in Academia

Diversity and inclusion, with respect to gender, nationality, culture, sexuality, etc… is unfortunately still missing in most places, and universities are definitely not a front runner. Research has shown that increased diversity in the working place, adding diversity in methods, approaches, etc… leads to increased performance and output overall. Whereas…

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