About this event
Pride in STEM is marking LGBTQ+ History Month 2022 with a special event that will focus on how LGBTQIA+ people have found and organised community, built networks, and pushed for change in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths.
Our three speakers will discuss the past and the present of such organising, giving advice and opinions on what is needed in the future to do better for our community, especially the most marginalised among us.
Sarah Cosgriff (she/her) is a science communicator and trainer. She has considerable experience working with young audiences and is passionate about inclusive practice in science engagement. Sarah is particularly interested in LGBTQIA+ inclusion in science engagement and STEM education through her work at the Association for Science Education and Schools OUT UK, an LGBT+ education charity that founded LGBT+ History Month.
Her talk will focus on LGBTQ+ organizations in STEM through the decades and how that will inform her ace advocacy.
Nuzhat Tabassum (she/her) is an Earth Scientist. During her Ph.D., she studied minerals trapped in diamonds to investigate what they can tell us about what is happening 100's km under our feet in the planet's interior. However, now she is on a mission to find out ways that STEM can be made more accessible to historically excluded communities. Last year, Nuzhat Tabassum worked at the Royal Academy of Engineering on a research project about "Socioeconomic status and its impact on Engineering Opportunities" and currently, she is managing "The Explorers Programme" at the Natural History Museum, which aims to empower and support young people of colour to pursue careers in Earth and Environmental Sciences.
She will be talking about learning on the different forms of barriers in STEM, especially in the UK Education landscape, and trying to develop effective intervention methods.
Ellie Armstrong (she/her) researches science education at Stockholm University. Ellie investigates science learning beyond classrooms, in places like museums, in movies, in books, and tours. She is interested in how we learn about what science is like: who is a researcher? What counts as science? How does science happen? Ellie is also an experienced science communicator, having worked at the Science Museum and at major science festivals across the UK, and developing LGBTQ+ tours at science and technology museums.
Her talk will be about the tours at the science museum and elsewhere.