Women At Imperial College; Past, Present And Future

Past, Present and Future

Anne Barrett

• Publisher: WSPC (EUROPE)
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781786342645
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Science General
• Index: Biological Sciences

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This book is a celebration of women in science, technology, medicine and business at Imperial College London. It shows the inspirational role women played in the creation of the legacy of the College since its inception, and represents a guide to their achievements. Biographies and archive material provide an insight into their academic work and social lives, while first-hand information collected for individual cases gives a comprehensive overview of student and professional life in their diverse fields and subjects. Further careers as academics and businesswomen are also documented, demonstrating the importance of and wider social impact of women in the sciences.

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• Introduction:
  • Cartoons
• Biographies:
  • Geology (Lady Rachel MacRobert Workman & Janet Vida Watson)
• Engineering:
  • Chemical Engineering (Anita Irene Bailey, Dame Julia Stretton Higgins & Kathleen Marjorie De Reuck)
  • Mechanical Engineering (Margaret Fishenden)
  • Civil Engineering (Letitia Chitty)
  • Civil Engineering/Materials (Constance Fligg Elam Tipper)
  • Chemistry (Martha Annie Whiteley, )
  • Biology/Botany (Helen Kemp Porter)
  • Biochemistry (Elsie May Widdowson)
  • Biochemistry/Tissue Engineering (Dame Julia Polak)
• Medicine:
  • Haematology (Dame Janet Maria Vaughan & Winifred May Watkins)
  • Cardiology (Celia Mary Oakley & Dame Margaret Elizabeth Harvey Turner-Warwick)
  • Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Dame Alice Josephine Mary Taylor Barnes & Lesley Regan)
  • Surgery (Averil Olive Mansfield)
  • Hospice Movement and Palliative Care (Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders)
  • Medic and MP (Baroness Edith Clara Summerskill)
  • Medical Statistician and Sexual Health Research (Jane Wadsworth)
• Physics:
  • Meteorology (Elen Elaine Austin & Elen Elaine Austin)
  • Physics (Daphne Frances Jackson & Lady Anne Thorne)
  • Physics and Electrical Engineering (Hertha Ayrton)
  • Space Physics (Michele Karen Dougherty)
  • Physics and Climate Change (Joanna Dorothy Haigh)
  • Nuclear Physics (Dame Susan Elizabeth Ion)
• It's a Family Affair:
  • 19th–20th Century (The Reeks Family & The Judd Family)
  • Early 20th Century (The Conrady Family)
  • Mid-20th Century (The Hill Family & The Chain Family)
  • 20th–21st Century (The Sergot Family & The Hankin Family)
  • Liberal Studies and History of Science
  • Pastoral Roles
  • Imperial College Women's Clubs — Social
  • Imperial College Women's Association
  • Tie Clubs and Women
  • Toni Semmence
  • Imperial College Women Students Union Presidents and Roles
  • Recruiting Women Students — Publicity
  • Centenary Prize Lists
  • Women@Imperial: Gender Equality, Athena Swan and Women Ambassadors, Scholarships, Scientific and Entrepreneurial Initiatives at Imperial and for Returners to Scientific Careers, Women@Imperial Week
  • Industrial Sociology to Business School (Dorothy Enid Cole Wedderburn, Joan Woodward, Dame Sandra June Noble Dawson, Sue Birley & Dorothy Griffiths)
  • Principals and Vice Chancellors (Frances Mary Gore Micklethwait, Kate Barratt, Jenny Higham, Debra Humphris, Julia Clare Buckingham & Julia Elizabeth King)
  • Women's Roles: Then and Now
• Women at the Top:
  • 1st Woman Pro-Rector (Mary Ritter)
  • 1st Woman Chairman Imperial College Council (Baroness Eliza (Elizabeth) Lydia Manningham-Buller)
  • Women at the Top 2007–2016
  • Associate Provost and Vice-President Roles (Professor Maggie Dallman & Sarah Porter Waterbury)

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Readership: Women in science, medicine, business and engineering interested in the history of education, Imperial College students and graduates, historians researching women in science.
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Index

A

Abbeydale, Lord Allen, 326

Abrahams, Margery, 112

Abroad An Alphabet of Flowers, 61

Absorption of Foods, 113

Academic Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 169

Academic Gender Strategy Committee (AGSC), xvii, 15, 307–308

Academic Opportunities Committee, xvii, 271, 307, 350

Academic Research Council for the Singapore Ministry of Education, 400

Academic Sexual Health Study, 189

Academic Sociology, 349

Academic Transferable Skills Training, 389

Academy of Medical Sciences, 117

A Capella, 316

Acetone, 83

Acetone Production, 79

Acworth, Joseph, 4

Acworth, Marion Whiteford, née Stevenson, 4

Adam, Sheila, 306

Admiralty, 83

Admiralty Air Department, 58–59

Admiralty Research, 80

Admiralty Ship Welding Committee, 66

Adrian Gill Prize Royal Meteorological Society, 219

Advanced Analytical Lab, 279

Advanced Engineering Rolls-Royce Industrial Power Group, 373

Advisor to the Science and Parliament Committees, 118

Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME), 24

Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS), 320

Aeronautical Engineering, 55–56, 60, 214, 375, 380

Aerospace, 373

Afterword, 407

Agricultural, 14, 96, 101, 104, 111, 309, 359–361

Agricultural Research Council, 95–96, 101, 104

Ahamat, Nona, 292

Air Ministry, 58–59, 192

Meterological office, 192

Air Pollution Advisory Board, 51

Airports Commission, 374

Air Raid Wardens, 280

Airship R. 38, 59

Airships R.100 and R.101, 59

Airship Stressing Panel, 59

Albert Hall, Royal The, 60, 281

Albert, Prince Consort, 2

Aleksander, Igor, 274

Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 400

Alice P. Gast Women in STEM Scholarship Lehigh University, 400, 403

Allen, Geoffrey, 33

Althea Foundation, 313

Althea–Imperial Prize, 313

American Airlines, 379

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 400

American Association of Blood Banks, 139

American Association of Pathologists, 118

American Chemical Society, 29, 400

American College C...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Author Biography
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword Prof Dame Julia Stretton Higgins
• The Provost’s Envoy for Gender Equality Prof Dot Griffths OBE
• Introduction
• Biographies
• Engineering
• Medicine
• Physics
• It’s a Family Affair
• Women at the Top
• Biography
• Afterword  Prof Alice Gast
• Appendix I  Abbreviations Used
• Appendix II  Degrees for Women
• Index