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Equivalent Too
by Dr. Shini Somara
Discussing with Women in STEM, how to survive and thrive in a male-dominated world. Hosted by Dr. Shini Somara.
Episodes
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Equivalent Too x Imperial College London Ep 1 FIND YOUR VOICE
In this episode, we talk to Dr. Kanta Dihal, a lecturer of Science Media at Imperial College and a co-author of the paper "The Whiteness of AI". We discuss some issues surrounding being a minority in STEM. Equivalent Too is a podcast for minorities in STEM. Its a place to discuss issues faced by...
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IMAD #3 Inclusion and Innovation with Minette Norman
Listen for a fresh and constructive take on how to be inclusive... You’ve tuned into Innovators Making a Difference - a podcast series where I meet daring disrupters, tenacious trailblazers and persistent pioneers, who are solving some of the globe’s trickiest challenges, using science…
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IMAD #2 Innovate UK with CEO, Indro Mukerjee
Innovation builds business, but what else do we innovate for? I chat to the current CEO of Innovate UK, Indro Mukerjee to find out..
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IMAD #1 Failure & Innovation
I meet Samuel West, the founder and creator of The Museum of Failure. We discuss how the reframing of failure is crucial for innovation.
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eSTEAMd Women: Ep 44 Engineering - Enjoy it! with Sita Morjaria
Sita is in her first year of Mechanical Engineering and already convinced that this is what she wants to do! This is what direction sounds like. She may not know the outcomes of her interests and where it will lead, but what is sure, is that she's enjoying every step of the way, even when times…
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eSTEAMd Women Ep 43 Enjoy the Spotlight with Ella Podmore
Ella Podmore exudes confidence and boldness through her transparency. It's inspiring to listen to a women who is so comfortable in her own skin, despite the occasional self-doubt and fear in standing-up for herself in a very male-dominated industry. What's most inspiring is that she speaks up...
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eSTEAMd Women: Ep42 Failure is Exciting with Yulia Getachew
This week I talk to Yulia Getachew about her experiences into Aerospace Engineering. It hasn't been easy as someone who was transplanted from Ethiopia to London at the age of 6 years old. Despite all the bullying, failures and obstacles of being under represented, she has emerged strong and...
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eSTEAMd Women Ep 41 Achieving Unity in Engineering with Vanessa Burton
Vanessa grew up in a bi-racial family and has strong opinions about diversity and inclusion in engineering. We have a chat about how to unite the industry, to provide skills necessary for harmony and innovation, not just in engineering, but also in life.
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eSTEAMd Women: Ep 40 How to Have it All with architect Kavita Dhande
Architecture - where science and art collides! I talk to architect Kavita Dhande, who thinks it's an industry that could support women one day, but today is very much dominated by men!
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eSTEAMD Women: Ep 39 What happens when science meets art? With Lara Lalemi
Speaking to Lara gave me goosebumps because we are so aligned. She is passionate about shaking up our educational system to combine science and art AND she is determined to incorporate cultural differences into the way we learn. Its a beautiful conversation about collaboration and open-mindedness...
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eSTEAMd Women Ep 38 How to lead a team of Men? with Sophie Harker
Sophie Harker was happily oblivious to the differences between school-life and work life as a mathematics student. She then found herself transitioning out of mathematics into Aerospace Engineering. Her leap into the unknown is courageous and daring and at the root of them all, has been a deep...
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eSTEAMd Women: Ep 37 Rashim Mogha - Be a Lighthouse
Rashim is a beacon of light, shining light on the path to female empowerment! Her approach to building one's confidence and resilience is smart, logical and inspiring!
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eSTEAMd Women Ep 36 Ramneek & Anureet Kanwar - The Pilot Twins
These twins are just 18, and they are about to embark on a solo flight each in a Diamond plane, following each other around the world. Their mission is to raise awareness of Women in STEM and the importance of education for women. The journey should take them a year. They're pretty badass. You…
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eSTEAMd Women Ep 35 Arielle Etoffe Pushing past all Negativity
Arielle has experienced the usual experiences, when under-represented. The Imposter Syndrome, being your own cheerleader, the loneliness and self-doubt. Despite that she pushes through because she is getting herself an impressive education for her own self-esteem and interest. That drive allows…
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eSTEAMd Media: Episode 34 Isabella Mascarenhas - Gems in STEM
Isabella Mascarenhas is pushing for more GEMs in STEM (global ethnic minorities) in STEM! She’s VP of @rsgrassroots #engineering that encourages more #bame into industry - they have loads of #stem initiatives and support on offer!
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eSTEAMd Women Ep 33 Fiona McGarry Empowered Through STEM
Fiona McGarry is really ahead of the curve when it comes to STEM engagement. She has led initiatives at MakeUK, which has showcased how powerful apprenticeships are for getting into engineering! Fiona is up to date in pushing for individuals to be themselves in STEM. We do need diversity, but…
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eSTEAMd Women: Ep 31 Dr. Samantha Strasser - Making Science open to All
There are very few sciences Dr. Strasser hasn't studied, from mathematics to engineering and biology. Now she is the CSO of Pepper Bio, a drug discovery company that uses AI and other clever algorithms to treat patients more effectively. In short, Dr. Strasser is using her gifts to help others…
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eSTEAMD Women: Ep 30 Sarah Chapman - Setting your own best standards
Sarah Chapman is so much more than a chemist, especially thanks to her day job as an Application Engineering Technical Manager. Sarah has many strings to her bow and believes that we should all speak out, because we never know who we may inspire into STEM. Sarah's TED talk is amazing and I love…
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eSTEAMd Women: Ep 29 Shireen Dooling - The Bigger Picture
Shireen loves learning and helping other people to learn. She does this through illustration and for me is a perfect vision of someone who applies all her skills, talents and interests into one career. She is doing what it takes to create her dream job, merging creativity and tech.
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eSTEAMd Women: Ep 28 Ashley Van Bryugom - Mindset Dressing
Ashley Van Bruygom is fast becoming one of the world’s experts on Hydrogen, a fuel which is set to become a major part of our future, particularly in aviation. We talk about some of the myths and hopes for hydrogen and how she has carried herself along in engineering, a discipline that is still...
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eSTEAMd Women: Ep 27 Khaoula Daoud -Questioning Every Moment
Khaoula has such a positive attitude towards equality and diversion in engineering. This comes from being in a nurturing work environment, where gender equality is encouraged and an openness to diversity is practiced. She also has healthy work/life boundaries, but this wasn't always the case....
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eSTEAMd Women Ep 26 Ujjwal Chahal - Experience Taught me Everything
Ujjwal Chahal is a data scientist stemming from an education in software engineering in India. Having qualified from Imperial College in London, she know analyses data to improve business. I got a chance to chat to her about her south east Asian roots and how that has affected her career path in…
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eSTEAMd Women - Ep25 Chinwe Odiliy Understanding your Heritage
Chinwe Odili is originally a civil engineer now working in offshore. She has taken the time to really get to know herself and her heritage, which has given her the confidence to stand strong as an under represented person in her industry. There is clearly so much power in truly knowing yourself.
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eSTEAMd Women - Ep 24 Abigail Berhane -Details and Bigger Picture
Abby is pretty outstanding. So passionate about her research with many strings to her bow! It's inspiring to hear her focus and determination. She's certainly someone who works hard and takes none of her talents and skills for granted. In today's world where everything is about the surface, she's...
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eSTEAMd Women: S3 Ep23 Dr. Cat Gardner - Proud of The Girl from Grimsby
Dr. Cat Gardner was a girl from Grimsby, who wasn't a straight A student, but now has a PhD in Physics and bags of experience to be able to command authority with her expertise amongst her 90% male-dominated team at Rolls-Royce. I'd say she's empowered. She opens up to us about her career journey...
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Innervation: S3 Episode 22 See me to be Me
Fiyin is just starting out on her own career journey, but she is already helping other women in Nigeria through a charity she started, which provides them with access to further education after secondary school. In her short career in Finance, she has already learned so much about resilience,...
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Innervation: S3 Episode 21 From Boredom Stems Breakthrough
I speak to family friend that I haven't seen in decades. We cover a variety of topics, including allowing children to discover their purpose and how the educational system can be shaken up! We put the world to rights in this heavily abridged conversation, where you get to be a fly on the wall, as...
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Innervation: S3 Episode 20 Megan Pormer - Scilenced No More
Megan Pormer has worked hard on her education, her emotional well-being, her health and her inner contentment and connection to a power greater than herself. As a strong Iranian woman, educated in the UK and currently living and working in the USA she has finally found independence. Megan…
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Innervation: S3 Episode 19 What do you WANT to do?
As a woman in STEM having completed a degree in Zoology, Laura now finds herself in the middle of a debate between government, education, industry and youth on encouraging people into STEM. It's a tough task to unite everyone in this discussion and Laura is tackling this firmly, one step at a…
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Innervation: S3 Episode 18 Make Things Happen
Fran Scott is a true engineer at heart. She loves making stuff and her work is highly visual and exciting at she plays with fire and makes things explode, in order to shows audiences how fun and wondrous STEM can be! Our conversation gets really honest and heartfelt as we discuss the discuss the...
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Innervation: S3 Episode 17 Flying High
Grazia Vittadini is a magnificent women and completely in her power. She's smart beyond comprehension speaking five languages with a penchant for the arts as well as the sciences. Yet her most alluring quality is her emotional intelligence. She knows exactly how to maintain her superiority when...
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Innervation: S3 Episode 16 Keeping Things Light
This conversation was more of a mentoring session for me! Judith is so accomplished yet so wise and chilled. Often as intelligent women, we want to prove our intelligence to the world and get angry when not acknowledged for our brains - Judith knows exactly how to handle such circumstances…
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Innervation: S3 Episode 15 Finding what you Love
Becky's journey into engineering hasn't been conventional! She didn't follow the classic maths physics route. However, she caught the F1 racing bug, ever since attending the UK Grand Prix - and now she's a design engineer working on the cars themselves! Find out how she fell into her dream job…
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Innervation: S3 Episode 14 Knowledge is Power
In this conversation, Dawn Bonfield, MBE and I get extremely honest about the problems that still exist in engineering. We are a long way off from being diverse and inclusive in this industry and there are still many things that need to change. We discuss why change is necessary and the small…
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Innervation: S3 Episode 13 Flexibility is Key
Talking to Claire Rose was up-lifting. Civil engineering finally seems to be changing for the better, to be more inclusive. Companies realise the positive impact of diverse teams on their success. Homogenous groups of engineers simply cannot not effectively design infrastructure for an entire...
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Innervation: S3 Episode 12 Purpose
Zainab Adigun, a structural engineer and mother of twin boys can do anything she puts her mind towards. After our conversation, it was clear that very little holds us back, other than what is between our ears. She has been through trails and challenges juggling motherhood and career, and what got...
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Innervation: S3 Ep 11 Unlimiting Beliefs
Dr. Leanne Armitage was recognised by HM Queen Elizabeth II for her charity, The Armitage Foundation, which aims to increase the diversity and inclusivity in medicine. She is also a very inspiring young woman who owns her underprivileged background, knowing that it gave her empathy and compassion...
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Innervation: S3 Episode 10 Ask Me Anything!
When Whitney Udigwe (a STEM A'Level student) reached out to me via my website asking for mentorship, she got me thinking about how mentorship might help others too. In the first of its kind, I aim to answer all questions that Whitney has about her own career direction and I'm sharing this...
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Innervation: S3 Episode 9 Turn Negatives into Positives
After we have laid our HM Queen Elizabeth II to rest, time seems to be revealing what she meant to me. She was a symbol of duty, service and purpose. I edited this conversation with Computer Engineer, Sanskriti Devi with this in mind and what I have learned from our Queen and see from Sanskriti…
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Innervation: S3 Episode 8 The Importance ofSisterhood
Women in Innovation and Technology share their experiences and what they have learned in order to survive and thrive in a male-dominated world. In this episode, we hear from sisters Abigail (scientists) and Donna (Engineer) about the network of STEM sisters they are trying to create. This...
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Innervation: S3 Episode 7 Be Fearless
5 years later and I still have weekly conversations with incredible women in STEM. why, because it keeps me humble and grateful as a human being. This conversation was no different. It took a sudden twist when I learned that she had lost her Dad. My own Dad has been such a massive influence in my...
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Innervation S3: Episode 6 I hear you
I grew up watching Maggie Philbin on Tomorrow's World, the stories she covered on this iconic BBC science and tech magazine show, were the core of many family discussion at the dinner table, about pie in the eye tech that would be part of our future. All of these ideas came true and now Maggie…
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Innervation: S3 Episode 5 Where you’re meant to Be
In this conversation we talk about striving to achieve it all and get realistic about the challenges and sacrifices involved in ticking all of the boxes as a woman in engineering and STEM. Its amazing how the first few years of our lives shape the rest of our futures too!
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Innervation S3: Episode 4 Bring Unique
UNIQ+ research internships are designed to provide students from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds who are ordinarily resident in the UK, with the opportunity to experience postgraduate study. Dr. Tom Crawford (mathematician/fluid dynamicist), Dr. Sagida Bibi (immunologist) and I…
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Innervation: S3 Ep 3 Your Difference is Your Power
This conversation gets really honest about under representation in STEM and life. We open up about cultural differences and navigating being different! This conversation offers so much solution, but also gets raw about the problems. This episode is an eye-opener to mental well-being and empowerment.
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Innervation: S3 Ep 2 Persistence is Key
It’s so inspiring meeting young women who have a strong drive and ambition to build careers in STEM. Thendral Kamal is one of those women. She is so focussed on becoming the first Indian woman on Mars, that she is leaving no stone unturned in getting there. Not only is she an aerospace…
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Innervation: S3 Ep 1 Input / Output
She is an engineer through and through. She sees the world through an engineering lens. Totally head led, totally, rational and loving protocol, because it allows her to think outside of the box and solve problems - like all great engineers do. She’s a mechanical engineer and more, who believes…
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Innervation: S2 Episode 51 Dependent on No One
Watch out boys, girls are increasing in empowerment. We want independence and don’t want to have to rely or report to men. Its time to level up to what women bring to the table! Prachi Gupta was raised in India, a place where women are still assumed to have a subordinate role to men, but the…
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Innervation: S2 Ep 50 I am my own Cheerleader
Anete Dowling is passionate about machine learning, especially when applied to social robotics. She works hard and pushes herself to be the best she can be in this field. At the same time, she has also been blessed with good looks because she is also a fashion model. I have a chat with her about...
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Innervation: S2 Episode 49 No One is Better
Chloe Sales is truly inspiring. Our conversation contained so many mic-drop moments because she has clearly done a lot of soul-searching. Her early 20’s were hard as she muddled around figuring out what to do. However, she has surely found her groove with work as a welder, and discovered a…
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