RAS exhibition - 'Celebrating Women in Astronomy'

I am still collecting information about contemporary women with a connection to the RAS. Here is some information about the format, etc.

The information should fit on one side of A4 (around 400 words or less). I can do the formatting and layout if necessary. I can cope with most formats, but it is easier for me to have text as plain text or word, since I will use powerpoint for my final layout.

Please include a picture of yourself (domestic or formal, action or still), and other ‘scientific’ pictures are welcome. I am looking for variety.

• Please give information about your work.
• Please give information about your career path. (e.g. Was it always astronomy-related or was it more varied, or was it an accident?)
• What else do you do? (e.g. family, hobbies, voluntary work, etc)
• What publication/result/achievement pleases you most?

I reserve the right to do some editing if I regard it as necessary.

A lot of non-scientists/non-experts come to the RAS President’s Reception, and this fact together with my plans for a wider audience through the year means that the posters should aim to celebrate the fact that women do science well rather than what we do in technical detail. I hope it will encourage young people to consider careers in science by the variety of jobs we have and career paths we have followed.

The information will be used as part of the exhibition ‘Celebrating Women in Astronomy’ for the RAS President’s Reception at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London on 13 February 2004. Historical figures in astronomy and geophysics will be celebrated too.

The contributions will be combined into several A0 posters. These posters will then be made available as a travelling exhibition.

I plan to put the material into a web-exhibition ‘Celebrating Women in Astronomy’.

NB If you do not want your material included in either the travelling exhibition or the web-exhibition, please let me know.