Ada Lovelace Day Podcast

This month, we talk to software developer Elen Gwynne about how she made the transition from astrophysics to programming. And we’ve got theoretical physicist and broadcaster Professor Jim Al-Khalili who tells us about Daphne Jackson, the first woman to become a professor of physics in the UK.

Our Discovery of the Month is, this time, more of an invention! We’ll be taking a look at the history of the compiler, an essential piece of software that makes programming in human-readable languages possible.

The Ada Lovelace Day podcast highlights the work of women in STEM. We talk to women from around the STEM world about their careers, as well as talking to women and men about historic and modern women’s achievements, discoveries, and inventions.

Find out more about our podcast on our website, findingada.com/podcast/.

This month, we talk to Prof Elaine Chew about how she uses computer software to mathematically model music, and Dr Helen Scales tells us about the life and work of Dr Eugenie Clark, The Shark Lady.

We introduce a new section to the podcast, Discovery of the Month, and take a look at the history of Kevlar. And we have our first giveaway, a signed copy of Helen’s book, Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells. Listen to find out how to enter!

The Ada Lovelace Day podcast highlights the work of women in STEM. We talk to women from around the STEM world about their careers, as well as talking to women and men about historic and modern women’s achievements, discoveries, and inventions.

Find out more about our podcast on our website, findingada.com/podcast/.

The Ada Lovelace Day podcast highlights the work of women in STEM. We talk to women from around the STEM world about their careers, as well as talking to women and men about historic and modern women’s achievements, discoveries, and inventions.

This month, we’re talking to Dr Rae Robertson-Anderson about biological soft matter and biomaterials, and to ecologist Dr Thorunn Helgason about Barbara Mosse and how women’s contributions to STEM are overlooked.

Find out more about our podcast on our website, findingada.com/podcast/.

The Ada Lovelace Day podcast highlights the work of women in STEM. We talk to women from around the STEM world about their careers, as well as talking to women and men about historic and modern women’s achievements, discoveries, and inventions.

This month, psychological scientist Dr Julia Shaw explains why we shouldn’t trust our own memories, and how knowing that can help us develop a better relationship with our past.

And bio-archeologist Dr Brenna Hasset explores the lives and works of three pioneering archaeologists who have been instrumental in developing our understanding of prehistoric Turkey, Halet Çambel, Ufuk Esin, and Mihriban Özbaşaran.

Find out more about our podcast on our website, findingada.com/podcast/.

The Ada Lovelace Day podcast highlights the work of women in STEM. We talk to women from around the STEM world about their careers, as well as talking to women and men about historic and modern women’s achievements, discoveries, and inventions.

This month, we’re celebrating Ada Lovelace Day with an astronomy special, in honour of our Ada Lovelace Day Live Platinum Sponsor, The Royal Astronomical Society. We talk to Professor Haley Gomez about how cosmic dust is formed, how it affects our view of the universe, and its role in the formation of planets.

We also hear from astronomer and astrophysicist Dr Karen Masters mathematician Mary Somerville.

The Ada Lovelace Day podcast highlights the work of women in STEM. We talk to women from around the STEM world about their careers, as well as talking to women and men about historic and modern women’s achievements, discoveries, and inventions.

In this episode, we talk to structural engineer Roma Agrawal about her work on the iconic Shard skyscraper in London, and the challenges of retrofitting Victorian buildings.

We also hear from biological psychologist Dr Pete Etchells about the work of Dr Suzanne Gage, who investigates the relationships between recreational drug use and mental health.

The Ada Lovelace Day podcast highlights the work of women in STEM. We talk to women from around the STEM world about their careers, as well as talking to women and men about historic and modern women’s achievements, discoveries, and inventions.

This month, we go into space with senior spacecraft structures engineer Abbie Hutty, who talks about her work on the ExoMars Rover. We’ll also be chatting with Anne Marie Imafidon, CEO and founder of the STEMettes, who will tell us all about her role model, Dame Stephanie Shirley.

The Ada Lovelace Day podcast highlights the work of women in STEM. We talk to women from around the STEM world about their careers, as well as talking to women and men, about historic and modern women’s achievements, discoveries, and inventions.

In our third episode, Suw Charman-Anderson talks to Hazel Gibson about geoscience cognition and communication — how the metaphors we use for geological concepts, like underground rivers, affect how well we understand geological processes.

And Dr Erik Klemetti, volcanologist and author of the Wired Eruptions blog, tells us about the work of vulcanologist Professor Anita Grunder.

The Ada Lovelace Day podcast highlights the work of women in STEM. We talk to women from around the STEM world about their careers, as well as talking to women and men, about historic and modern women’s achievements, discoveries, and inventions.

In our second episode, Suw Charman-Anderson talks to science communicator Fran Scott about her work designing science demos for television and schools, and how to get into a TV presenting career.

And we also hear from Maia Weinstock, deputy editor at MIT news, who discusses the queen of nuclear research, Chien-Shiung Wu, her crucial role in disproving the Conservation of Parity and her vital contribution to the Manhattan Project.

The Ada Lovelace Day podcast highlights the work of women in STEM. We talk to women from around the STEM world about their careers, as well as talking to women and men, about historic and modern women’s achievements, discoveries, and inventions.

In this, our first episode, host Suw Charman-Anderson talks to Dr Helen Czerski from University College London about her work as a bubble physicist, and about life on board a research ship.

And we hear from technology journalist Clive Thompson about Canadian metallurgist and research physicist Ursula Franklin, who’s perhaps most famous for her social and political critique of modern technology.