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[Ep 1]: Decolonising STEM: A Beginners Guide: Introduction
Episode 1 of the POCSquared Podcast. An Introduction to decolonising STEM!
[Social medial links, Shownotes + a transcript can be found on our website www.poc2.co.uk]
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Show Notes for POC2 Podcast: Episode 1 Decolonising STEM: A Beginners Guide - Introduction
Intro + Outro music: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
BME attainment gap - https://www.ecu.ac.uk/guidance-resources/student-recruitment-retention-attainment/student-attainment/degree-attainment-gaps/
How to get a PhD for Women of colour - https://poc2.co.uk/2019/07/07/how-to-get-a-phd-in-stem-by-a-black-and-a-brown-woman/
Lack of people of colour in UK curriculumns - https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2018/jul/18/where-are-the-black-scientists-artists-and-thinkers-in-university-syllabuses
Racism in science
Eddington - https://poc2.co.uk/2018/08/30/dr-subrahmanyan-chandrasekhar-theoretical-physicist/
Hubble - https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/03/books/the-cosmic-egoist.html
Advances to Western navigation made to facilitate slavery [Note how it says the invention of the Marine Chronometer was used to accelerate colonialism] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_chronometer
Medicine
HeLa Cells - https://poc2.co.uk/2018/09/03/hela/
Black mothers 5 times more likely to die in childbirth than white mothers in the UK as of 2019 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006sg5 / https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47115305
Experimenting on enslaved black people - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment
Decolonise QMUL - https://decoloniseqmul.wordpress.com/
Goldsmiths AntiRacism - https://twitter.com/goldantiracism
Ursula Le Guin - https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Left-Hand-Darkness-S-F-MASTERWORKS/dp/1473221625/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1CZ37QQXY6BQK&keywords=ursula+le+guin+the+left+hand+of+darkness&qid=1564679471&s=gateway&sprefix=ursula+le+guin+the+lef%2Caps%2C136&sr=8-1
For Harriet - https://www.youtube.com/user/ForHarrietdotcom
Naomi - https://www.comixology.co.uk/Naomi-2019-1/digital-comic/744991
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By Karel Green, Pruthvi Mehta, Sehher TariqEpisode 1 of the POCSquared Podcast. An Introduction to decolonising STEM!
[Social medial links, Shownotes + a transcript can be found on our website www.poc2.co.uk]
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Show Notes for POC2 Podcast: Episode 1 Decolonising STEM: A Beginners Guide - Introduction
Intro + Outro music: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
BME attainment gap - https://www.ecu.ac.uk/guidance-resources/student-recruitment-retention-attainment/student-attainment/degree-attainment-gaps/
How to get a PhD for Women of colour - https://poc2.co.uk/2019/07/07/how-to-get-a-phd-in-stem-by-a-black-and-a-brown-woman/
Lack of people of colour in UK curriculumns - https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2018/jul/18/where-are-the-black-scientists-artists-and-thinkers-in-university-syllabuses
Racism in science
Eddington - https://poc2.co.uk/2018/08/30/dr-subrahmanyan-chandrasekhar-theoretical-physicist/
Hubble - https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/03/books/the-cosmic-egoist.html
Advances to Western navigation made to facilitate slavery [Note how it says the invention of the Marine Chronometer was used to accelerate colonialism] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_chronometer
Medicine
HeLa Cells - https://poc2.co.uk/2018/09/03/hela/
Black mothers 5 times more likely to die in childbirth than white mothers in the UK as of 2019 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006sg5 / https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47115305
Experimenting on enslaved black people - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment
Decolonise QMUL - https://decoloniseqmul.wordpress.com/
Goldsmiths AntiRacism - https://twitter.com/goldantiracism
Ursula Le Guin - https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Left-Hand-Darkness-S-F-MASTERWORKS/dp/1473221625/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1CZ37QQXY6BQK&keywords=ursula+le+guin+the+left+hand+of+darkness&qid=1564679471&s=gateway&sprefix=ursula+le+guin+the+lef%2Caps%2C136&sr=8-1
For Harriet - https://www.youtube.com/user/ForHarrietdotcom
Naomi - https://www.comixology.co.uk/Naomi-2019-1/digital-comic/744991