2010 Collection

In 2010, 89 nominations for outstanding women were received across three categories:

• SET Discovery, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

• Communication of SET with a Contribution to Society

• SET Leadership and an Inspiration to Others

For SET Discovery, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
As the inventor of one of the most significant devices in veterinary education in the last 50 years, Sarah Baillie is forward-thinking, innovative and an inspiration to colleagues, peers and students. Find out more.

Jackie Hunter has an outstanding record of innovation in pharmaceutical research after deciding early on in her career that her work would focus directly on human health. Find out more.

For Communication of SET with a Contribution to Society
Amanda Fisher is an inspiration to both men and women. She has demonstrated that a scientific career can include a leading role in developing new ways to communicate science as well as participation in the arts and a good work-life balance. Find out more.

Helen Mason is internationally recognised for her research in atomic astrophysics. Her passion to communicate about science in creative ways currently reaches many audiences from school children to audiences at music festivals. Find out more.

For Leadership and Inspiration to Others
Julia Higgins has had an exceptional career, with outstanding contributions to both engineering and science. Through her pioneering research Julia has become a world leader in the field of polymer science and technology and is a source of great inspiration and motivation for many students. Find out more.

Helen Atkinson has made an outstanding contribution in the field of engineering. She is also an inspiration and role model to her students in the UK and overseas, including many who have gone on to achieve first class careers. Find out more.

Comment from Phillip Greenish, Chief Executive of The Royal Academy of Engineering

"As the national academy of engineering we place the highest priority on encouraging more women to take up careers in science, engineering and technology (SET). To this end we work in close collaboration with the UK Resource Centre for Women in SET (UKRC), the WISE Campaign, The Athena Forum, the Athena SWAN Charter, the Womens’ Engineering Society and the Daphne Jackson Trust to co-ordinate a Diversity Campaign in Engineering.

"Each year the UKRC’s Women of Outstanding Achievement in SET Photographic Exhibition highlights the ever increasing contribution of highly gifted women who are world leaders in their fields of expertise in science, engineering and technology. We are particularly pleased that so many women engineers have now been honoured in this way. They are exemplars for others to follow, not least the younger women who are being targeted in schools, colleges and universities to follow in their footsteps.

"To this end we are proud to host the Women of Outstanding Achievement in SET Photographic Exhibition and to provide apermanent home for some of these magnificent portraits here in our premises in Carlton House Terrace."