{"id":327,"date":"2017-06-23T15:51:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T15:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk\/bio-equalityanddiversity\/?p=327"},"modified":"2023-12-08T14:12:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T14:12:48","slug":"stem-for-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/2017\/06\/23\/stem-for-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"STEM for Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STEM for Britain, a poster competition at Westminster, aims to strengthen the dialogue between Parliament and the science community and gives early-career researchers the opportunity to present their work in London.<\/p>\n<p>For the Biological and Biomedical session, 60 early career researchers from all over the UK were shortlisted from hundreds of applications. The School of Biology was well represented with three PhD students,\u00a0Faith Jones, Barbara Klump and Ginny Greenway, from the Centre of Biological Diversity being selected to present their work in Parliament. The students enjoyed preparing a poster for a lay audience as it challenged them to present the key messages and broader implications of the work in a way to engage non-experts.<\/p>\n<p>Due to unforeseen circumstances (the Brexit debate in the House of Commons took place at the same time as the Biological and Biomedical session), fewer MPs were able to attend the event than anticipated. Nevertheless, it was an excellent experience to showcase the work to a wide variety of people, amongst them expert judges (recognised senior biologists from a wide variety of subject backgrounds), other presenters and the media.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara&#8217;s poster, entitled \u2018crafty crows know their tools\u2019, received positive feedback on the day, a lot of attention on social media (see twitter account @STEM4Brit) and was mentioned in the session\u2019s closing speech. Barbara had very inspiring and challenging discussions about the work and attending the poster presentation in Parliament was a good opportunity to explain her research to a wide variety of different audiences. Barbara is grateful to the Public Engagement and Recruitment Committee of the School of Biology for funding the trip to London.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7330\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/06\/barbara-stem-for-britain-2.png\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/06\/barbara-stem-for-britain-2.png\" data-orig-size=\"543,350\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"barbara-stem-for-britain-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/06\/barbara-stem-for-britain-2.png\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7330 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/06\/barbara-stem-for-britain-2.png\" alt=\"Faith Jones, Barbara Klump and Ginny Greenway next to their posters\" width=\"543\" height=\"350\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7331\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/06\/barbara-stem-for-britain-1.png\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/06\/barbara-stem-for-britain-1.png\" data-orig-size=\"433,472\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"barbara-stem-for-britain-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/06\/barbara-stem-for-britain-1.png\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7331 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/06\/barbara-stem-for-britain-1.png\" alt=\"Barbara Klump next to her poster &quot;Crafty crows know their tools&quot;\" width=\"433\" height=\"472\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STEM for Britain, a poster competition at Westminster, aims to strengthen the dialogue between Parliament and the science community and gives early-career researchers the opportunity to present their work in London. For the Biological and Biomedical session, 60 early career researchers from all over the UK were shortlisted from hundreds of applications. The School of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edi-activities-with-external-impact","category-equality-diversity-and-inclusion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/06\/barbara-stem-for-britain-2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}