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GetSET Women Blog September 2009

Each fortnight a different woman describes her choice of career on our blog.
It is a fascinating snapshot of women who are in a minority - inventors, experimenters, engineers, technicians, scientists, researchers and more.

GetSET Women is our free online environment for SET women at all career stages and women who work in gender equality. Are you a woman in SET? Sign up today.

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Science communication and Sciencewise-ERC

Posted 29th September 2009 by Melanie Smallman

I run Think-Lab, the first communications agency in the UK to specialise in supporting the science community. When we set up in 1999 we were pioneers  – before then, organisations had to choose between someone who understood the science and…


Nuclear medicine - physics applied to medicine

Posted 9th September 2009 by Barbara Dawson

I began doing science A levels at school, but I didn’t enjoy it. I wanted to work in a hospital but I didn’t want to be a nurse. I then saw a job in advertised in Medical Physics, so I dropped out of the A levels and started to work.

In those…