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Women in Crop Science
The women in Crop Science initiative aims to create further opportunities for promoting and developing the visibility of women as role models in the crop science community. By building a stronger network we hope to ensure greater inclusion in the future.
Why we need a Directory?
Female database
To build a database of female crop expertise that can be used to identify speakers for meetings and panels.
Online community
To create an online community and a forum for raising questions and sharing information and advice.
Peer support
To unite peer support for people with caring responsibilities, having access to a pool of mentors across career levels and a mentoring program from academics to industry.
Job opportunities
Sharing of job opportunities and current vacancies to encourage more women to apply.
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Members
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Different countries
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Different crops
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Publications
Meet the team
Alison enjoys being a citizen of the world, having lived and worked in Vietnam, the US, the UK, Mexico, and her native country Australia during her 20 years as a crop scientist. She is passionate about interesting science that delivers real-world benefits and is rarely impressed by those who think there is only one way of doing things. To this end she is also a strong advocate for raising the voices of early- and mid-career scientists and for improving gender equity in agriculture. Alison is a research group leader and Deputy Director of the Agrifood Innovation Institute at the Australian National University.
Laura is from the UK where she studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University. She completed her PhD in plant circadian rhythms at the University of Edinburgh, UK and then was a post-doctoral researcher at Duke University, USA and the John Innes Centre, UK before she started her group at the University of Leeds, UK. Her group specialises in understanding how plants respond to temperature and photoperiod signals with the aim of increasing crop sustainability.
Stéphanie comes from a rural community in Brittany, France. She is interested in understanding how plants integrate and respond to different environmental conditions such as nutrient availability and the presence of neighbour, including weeds. Her research aims to provide useful information for the development of crop varieties suitable for low input agriculture. She is passionate about training the next generation of scientists who can think clearly across scales from the gene to the whole field. Stéphanie currently leads the Crop Molecular Physiology group in the Plant Genetics Department at NIAB (UK) and is also the Janet Harker Fellow in Biological Sciences at Girton College- University of Cambridge.