📢Announcing our speakers for 2024!! Topics covering wheat, tomatoes, peanuts, modelling, gratitude, worms and more. Madara Premawardhana Hannah Blyth 👩‍🔬 Min Zhang Christina van Midden Cranfield University The Open University Rothamsted Research The University of Buckingham #womeninscience #womeninSTEM

Just a few days left to apply to be a speaker for Soapbox Science Make sure your application is in by Thursday 29th February

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📢 Applications are OPEN for Soapbox Science 2024!! Join us to shout about your science on Saturday 6th July centre:mk Link below 👇🏻 for application form. Deadline 29th February #womeninSTEM Please share

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A successful event! Read what Aver Maria Hemben thought of the event and her time on the Soapbox in our latest blog! mksoapboxscience.wordpress.com/2023/06/21/a-s…

Great day with Soapbox Science! ‘Spudtacular’ talk by Marta Sanzo Miró, assisted by Shaif Abakah and Ciara O'Brien! Also proud to have Sofia Kourmpetli and Natalia Falagán in the Soapbox Science MK organising committee, supporting the role of women and no binary researchers in science!

Another amazing Soapbox Science MK yesterday! Still buzzing & lots of photos to go through. Well done to all the speakers, you all did an incredible job! Big thanks to all the volunteers as well. This would not have been possible without your support. #WomenInSTEM #scienceiseverywhere

I had an amazing time talking about #DigitalTwins and how to achieve #netzero Soapbox Science
event in Milton Keynes. Thanks Soapbox Science MK
for this great experience!

School of Computing, University of Buckingham
The University of Buckingham

That's a wrap on #SoapboxSciMK23 !🎉 Congratulations to our speakers on a fantastic event. Thanks to our wonderful volunteers and organising team for making it happen, and to Soapbox Science, centre:mk, Faculty of STEM, The Open University, Cranfield University, The University of Buckingham, and Rothamsted Research for your support.

Our final three speakers: Joanna Zawadzka , Margaret McGroary , and Aver Maria Hemben doing a fantastic job finishing off our #SoapboxSciMK23 event

Now it’s Aver Maria Hemben from Cranfield University asking this question: “Very tiny bits of metal helping to transport drugs?” and answering centre:mk @soapboxscience  #WomenInSTEM .

Now time to hear my colleague Margaret McGroary from Rothamsted Research telling us all about her work on herbicide resistance for Soapbox Science MK

.Joanna Zawadzka is a researcher Cranfield University; she is using environmental mapping 🗺 and modelling. Today at @soapboxscience centre:mk, she discusses possible acts we can do about urban heat🔥 #WomenInSTEM

Our weed molecular biologist 👩‍🔬, @PeggyMcgroary from Rothamsted Research, is talking about: The art of killing the unkillable 🌱 centre:mk. @soapboxscience  #WomenInSTEM .

As Gemma Shaw, Elisa Oliveira da Costa, and Madara Premawardhana finish up their hour on the soapbox, we are heading into the final hour of this year's event! There's still time to make it down to centre:mk but you'll have to be quick!! #SoapboxSciMK23

Followed by Gemma Shaw talking about turning dirt to drinking water! Cranfield Agrifood Soapbox Science MK

Marta Sanzo Miró in action with her handy helper Shaif Abakah at Soapbox Science MK today talking about #potato storage! Cranfield Agrifood Plant Science Laboratory

Our 🥼 speaker Madara Premawardhana 👩‍💻 from The University of Buckingham talking to shoppers at centre:mk about Digital twins – a journey to a virtual world to explore more possibilities. Soapbox Science #WomenInSTEM