uk resource centre for women in science, engineering and technology

 

Its impossible to list everything – many of the sites listed here have links to lots of other interesting resources. Contact us you know of something that is missing and we’ll add it.

 

To find out about all sorts of UK events and acitivities in 2009, visit the UK International Year of Astronomy 2009.

Find out about UKRC involvement in IYA 2009.

 

 

The official website for the international She is an Astronomer programme.

Ever evolving page with news, comments and links.

 

Lots of resources, listed by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2008

 

A wiki site with a growing list of women astronomers

 

 

Alice Enevoldsen ‘highlights interesting goings-on in the world of astronomy’.

 

'Things and stuff' (astronomy and life) from Amanda Bauer, a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Nottingham.

 

Aerospace engineer Damaris B Sarria aims for the stars.

 

A blog about astronomy and astrophysics from a PhD student in radio astronomy at the University of Manchester.

Five women astronomers and astrophysicists blog – includes a ‘blogroll’ with links to other women bloggers.

 

A postdoc in astronomy in the Netherlands, working mainly on infrared instrumentation projects and blogging about this and more.

 

The blog of Dr Pamela Gray, astronomer, writer, educator and podcaster http://www.astronomycast.com/.

 

‘Uppity notes on science, astrophysics, gender, queer life, and whether Menudo is a planet. Because straight boys aren't the only astronomers.’

 

Emily Lakdawalla runs a guide to 'interesting stuff going on in space science, space exploration, and space advocacy'.

 

Henrietta Leavitt is a science writer and editor, working with observatories and planetariums.

 

Nancy Atkinson is a science writer and NASA /JPL Solar System Ambassador.

 

Alyssa Gilbert on 'the life of a newly-minted PhD contemplating her future'.

 

Four scientists (men and women) blog about women in astronomy.

 

 

M G Lord, Walker and Company, 2006

 

Lucy Rogers, Springer, 2008

 

Jo Marchant, Heinemann, 2008

 

BBC Radio 4 programme from 1997 about the thirteen women who were trained as astronauts by NASA, then dropped.

 

A documentary about pilot and pioneer Jerri Truhill, who was trained in 1961, as part of NASA's top secret Mercury 13 programme, to become one of the First Lady Astronauts.

 

Laura S Woodmansee, Apogee Books, 2002

 

Slide show of women astronomers and space scientists taken by Dutch photographer Laetitia Molenaar at the UKRC national conference 2009.