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International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2024
It was International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 Feb. Although I don’t identify as female, I was raised and treated as a girl as I was growing up. And numerous times, I have been directly told or given the impression that girls are not as good at science or maths as…
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In honour of LGBTQ+ History Month: My Story
Imperial graduate Abellona reflects back on his formative experiences at Imperial I came to Imperial from Hong Kong for my BSc in Biology back in 2011. Closeted, with an engrained internalised homophobia instilled by a deeply religious school, and a Hong Kong society that was (and in some ways still is) lagging behind most of…
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Meeting of a Lifetime.
Dinner with two of the three most important women in my life: my mum Queenie Leung and my PhD supervisor Prof Elaine Holmes (the third being my Grandma). How did this meeting come about: In the final year of my first degree (BSc Biology at Imperial), I decided to do a 1-year Masters while applying…
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