Dunn School marks international women’s day in partnership with Suffrage Science
On Monday 9 March, the day after International Women’s Day, the Dunn School hosted a reception to mark its 99th anniversary. The event was an opportunity to celebrate almost 100 years of women in the Dunn School, as well as the winners of this year’s Suffrage Science Awards in Life Sciences.
The event included a presentation on the Women of the Dunn School, as well as a panel discussion on ‘Global challenges and opportunities facing women scientists – is it getting better?’. The panel was moderated by the award-winning science writer and presenter Dr Kat Arney and was composed of (L-R):
- Areej Abuhammad, School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol
- Kay Davies, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford
- Ulrike Gruneberg, Dunn School, University of Oxford
- Edith Heard, The Francis Crick Institute
- Petra Hajkova, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
The event was hosted by Prof Elizabeth Robertson from the Dunn School and Prof Mandy Fisher from the Department of Biochemistry.
The Suffrage Science Awards were founded in 2011 to celebrate women in science for their scientific achievements and for their ability to inspire others. Initially focusing on the Life Sciences, other award categories now include Engineering and Physical Life Sciences and Mathematics and Computer Sciences. The awards themselves are heirloom items of jewellery commissioned from students of the art and design college, Central Saint Martins-UAL, who worked with scientists to create pieces inspired by research and the Suffragette movement, from which the scheme takes its name. Winners are nominated by previous awardees, and the items of jewellery are passed on at each award ceremony.
This year’s winners were:
- Chrystalina Antoniades, University of Oxford
- Sarah Cooley, Earth Science Data Partners
- Cara Croft, Queen Mary University of London
- Camille Dion, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
- Dima A. Hammoud, National Institutes of Health
- Karoline Kuchenbaecker, University College London
- Madeline Lancaster, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
- Liset Menendez de la Prida, Cajal Institute (Madrid) and Cajal Neuroscience Center
- Arwen Pearson, University of Hamburg
- Kate Watkins, University of Oxford
- Dana Pe’er, the Sloan Kettering Institute
You can read the biographies of the winners here.
This year’s award ceremony took place at the Department of Biochemistry, followed by a celebratory reception at the Dunn School.
The occasion was also an opportunity to mark the department’s 99th birthday, officially celebrated on the 11th of March. This celebration marks the officially countdown to our centenary celebrations in 2027. Find out more about our Centenary plans here.