ISC Presents

"I think there's a real danger that a disproportionate one-size-fits-all lockdown response to COVID is actually going to have bigger health and social and economic impacts down the line (in parts of Africa)." In this episode of ISC Presents: Global Science, we join Professor Melissa Leach, the Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). She is a Fellow of the British Aca...

In this episode, we talk to Cara Maesano, an environmental epidemiologist and air pollution researcher. Cara is part of the C40 project through the women4climate mentorship program. C40 is an organisation of cities around the world that is committed to taking action to mitigate carbon emissions to tackle climate change, and create resilient cities.

In this episode, we speak to  Gloria Bonder, who is the Director of the Department of Gender, Society and Policies of the Latin American Postgraduate Institute of Social Sciences ( FLACSO Argentina ). She coordinates two regional programmes including the UNESCO Regional Chair on Women, Science and Technologyin Latin America and the e-learning master’s programme on Gender, Society and Public Polici...

In this episode, we speak to Lydia Sosa Vargas, a CNRS researcher at Sorbonne University in Paris, France. Originally from Mexico, she obtained her PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK. In 2012, she began her postdoctoral work in Japan at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST-Kansai), developing new liquid crysta...

In this episode, we speak to Vivian Etsipia Boamah, a Senior Lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi (KNUST) and fellow of the L’Oreal UNESCO for Women in Sub Saharan Africa. Her areas of research are focused on antimicrobial resistance surveillance, mechanism of microbial resistance, and transfer of resistant genes from the environment/animals to humans. Vivian s...

In this episode, we speak with Dragana Ilic, a member of the International Astronomical Union. Ilic was awarded the L’Oréal-Unesco “For Women in Science” Serbia National Fellowship in 2014,  and is an Associate Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Belgrade. As an accomplished scientist and a mother of two, Ilic speaks out about stars, galaxies far and wide, and  the criticism, both impli...

 In this episode, we speak with Catherine Jami, Secretary General of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. (IUHPST) Catherine speaks out about the evolution of discrimination in the science field,  the need for women to support each other in science systems, and the specific challenges she has faced as a woman over the course of her career in mathmatics. Cath...

In this episode, we talk to Lingadahalli Subrahmanya Shashidhara, an Indian developmental biologist, geneticist and a professor of Biology at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.  Shashidhara has served as Vice President of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in the past and is currently Secretary General of International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) and is s...

Recorded at UNESCO during the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we discuss gender equality in science systems, through the voices of six women researchers in STEM from around the globe. We listen to the achievements, perils, challenges and aspirations women face in an effort to empower, connect and inspire present and future generations of female scientists. Listen and subscribe to...