We asked STEM Untapped Role Model, Dr Ananthi Ramachandran, to take us through a day in her life as a Team Leader in the QC Operations Team at a Biotech company. Industry life is a little different from studying a STEM subject so enjoy getting her insight into STEM...
STEM Untapped Blogs
STEM Untapped Mentor, Katie Hillan: 5th Year Medical Chemistry Student
Katie shares her STEM story with Untapped Innovation as a 5th year MSci student, studying and managing a placement throughout COVID, Navigating a change in career mindset early on and moments of imposter syndrome, Katie looks back and offers her pieces of advice to...
STEM Mentor: Spurring on ways to find new and engaging ways to talk about science
Jo Coles is a a chartered scientist, working as a flood risk modelling and forecasting senior team leader at the Environment Agency. Connect with here on LinkedIn I feel really privileged to have been asked to take part in this campaign so thank you for reading and...
STEM Mentor: Pushing the boundaries of the next generation of science and technology
Elaine Baxter is a Chemist and Director of Boutique Innovation People often ask me why I took on a career as a scientist and the honest answer is that for as long as I can remember, I have always been fascinated by science. From an early age I was interested in...
STEM Mentor: The Futurist Connecting Science, Art And Play
Yesim Kunter is a Play Expert, Futurist. Here she explains how play connects with science and art, bringing left brain thinking and right-brain thinking beautifully together. I’m a Play Futurist…. I love what I do! It is a fascinating role that involves range of...
STEM Mentor: The amazing woman behind Coders of Colour
Tolúlọpẹ́ Ògúnrẹ̀mý is the Founder of the award-winning organisation Coders of Colour. It's an organisation with the aim of getting under-represented people of colour into the technology industry and providing an opportunity for them to experiment with coding in a...
Girls in STEM Mentor… You need to love STEM (and other secrets of presenting the weather)
By FRMetS Senior meteorologist, weather presenter, editor and columnist, Kirsty McCabe Did you know that weather presenters don’t “read” a forecast script on TV, but are actually masters of multitasking and improvisation? There’s a lot more to the job of broadcast...
Girls in STEM Mentor: Grow the food we need to get to Mars
Our girls in STEM mentor, Jan Choudhury, discusses how science can take you to the stars quite literally if you choose to take that path. And how her career evolved to incorporate both art and science. A career in science will enable you to travel the world – and...
“Girls in STEM careers are so important to ensure there is diverse innovation and creativity”
As part of our Girls in STEM initiative, we invited Iman Kassim – IT Apprentice working for BMW Group - to give her insight into embarking on a career in STEM. My name is Iman Kassim, and I have worked in tech for just over 2 years now, as a BSc IT apprentice with BMW...