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March 2020
Tatjana Sauka-Spengler (Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow; WIMM) and Beth Psaila (CRUK Clinician Scientist; MHU)
Title: “Career paths and work/life balance”
Description: Tatjana and Beth described their personal scientific journeys and the paths by which they arrived at their current positions.

November 2019
Sally-Ann Clark (WIMM Flow Cytometry Facility), Simona Valetta (Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fund Intermediate Research Fellow, HIU), Tom Milne (PI, MHU)
Title: “Career paths and work/life balance”
Description: Sally-Ann, Simona, and Tom provide individual perspectives on their career trajectories and share some personal stories along the way.

June 2019
Jill Brown (Research Assistant, MHU) and Erdinc Sezgin (Post-doctoral scientist, HIU), winners of WIMM Diversity in Science prizes
Title: “Career paths and work/life balance”
Description: Jill and Erdinc were awarded the WIMM Diversity in Science prizes for their varied contributions to working life within the WIMM. They shared their personal journeys through science which led them to the institute.

March 2019
Jo Pisani, Partner at PwC Strategy
Title: “Promoting diversity, inclusion and mentoring”
Description: Amongst other subjects, Jo explained how benificial it has been for her organisation to nominate Diversity & Inclusion male champions to ensure engagement of all in developing a more inclusive culture to best support female employees.

February 2019
Ottoline Leyser, University of Cambridge, UKRI Chief Executive Officer
Title: “Living with uncertainty: The joy of being wrong”
Description: Ottoline discussed the pleasures and challenges of navigating a career in science alongside family life.

November 2018
Paul Sopp (WIMM Flow Cytometry Facility manager), Cynthia Wright Drakesmith (Daphne Jackson research fellow – WIMM Centre for Computational Biology), Ben Fairfax (PI, Clinician Scientist – Oncology)
Title: “Career paths and work/life balance”
Description: Paul, Cynthia, and Ben described how they balance their current positions with the various demands of their home lives, and how these considerations have changed over time.

May 2018
Anne Bridgeman (Senior research assistant, HIU), Mira Kassouf (Senior post-doc, MHU; President of Innovation Forum Oxford), Tiago Luis (Senior post-doc, MHU; Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale fellow; active member of the scientific society ISEH)
Title: “Career paths and work/life balance”
Description: Anne, Mira, and Tiago described their personal scientific journeys and the paths by which they arrived at their current positions.

February 2018
Millie Banerjee, Chair of NHS Blood Transfusion
Title: “Is hard work enough to be successful? A perspective from experiences in Government, Business and Health Care”
Description: A key message from Millie was to constantly improve/gain new transferable skills and pack them in a suitcase when moving to another job. The suitcase will expand as one is confronted to new experiences and responsibilities.

January 2018
Maria Leptin, EMBL, Director EMBO
Title: “Open discussion with WIMM women scientists”
Description: A very enjoyable and instructive Q&A session where we learnt how Maria made important career decisions and manages to brilliantly combine several leadership positions.

November 2016
Rui Monteiro (BHF Intermediate Fellow) and Lynn Quek (Oxford/Celgene Fellow, Consultant Haematologist)
Title: “Career paths and work/life balance”
Description: Rui and Lynn described their personal scientific journeys and the paths by which they arrived at their current positions.

May 2016
Angela Vincent (Senior Scientist), Katja Simon (Senior Scientist) and Paresh Vyas (Senior Clinician Scientist)
Title: “Career paths and work/life balance”
Description: Sally-Ann, Simona, and Paresh provided individual perspectives on their career trajectories and shared some personal stories along the way.

May 2015
Irene Roberts (Senior Clinician Scientist), Marella de Bruijn (Senior Scientist) and Tudor Fulga (WIMM Fellow)
Title: “Career paths and work/life balance”
Description: Irene, Marella, and Tudor described their personal scientific journeys and the paths by which they arrived at their current positions.

October 2014
Amanda Fisher, Head of the Institute of Clinical Sciences, Imperial College, London, launched our seminar series.
Description: Mandy delivered an original lecture mixing topics related to women in science and her own research. She presented the inspiring story of the woman voted as the most influential woman scientist of all times at Suffrage Science 2014: Agnodice, a greek physician in 4th century BCE who successfully battled against gender discrimination to allow women to study medicine.