Sciencewomen

About SciWo

I'm an assistant professor of geosciences at Mystery University in Mystery City. I'm mother to Minnow and daughter to ScienceGrandma. I mostly blog about my experiences as a woman scientist struggling to balance the demands of academia and a family. I blog because when I was a graduate student contemplating the future, I felt isolated and alone in my ambitions to do good research and be a good mother/wife/person. I don't want other young scientists to feel that way.

The views expressed on this blog are solely my own and in no way should they be taken as the opinions of Mystery University or of Scienceblogs. Also, I am not Alice Pawley.

About Alice Pawley

I'm an assistant professor in the super-cool School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. I'm an engineer, but a comparatively weird engineer: a feminist, radical, social justice-y engineer. In my research, I combine theoretical frameworks from women's studies, sociology, science and technology studies to apply to the study of engineering and engineering education - I like to think of my work as feminist engineering research.

I'm also a local foodie, and a granola-y vegetarian cook and gardener trying to make a smaller carbon footprint. I'm a Mac person, a hiker and camper, a not-very-good sailor, a not-very-good-but-at-least-in-tune singer, and a photographer. I'm also married, no kids. My husband used to have an academic position in another state; now we've worked the spousal hiring system a little to get him a job at Purdue.

I blogged pseudonymously from the spring of 2006 until I started blogging under my own name here in February 2008. I used to blog because I was writing my dissertation alone in the city my husband worked in, not where my group or peers were, and I was trying to connect with others with the same interests.

My work website is here.

The views expressed on my part of the blog are my own and should not be taken as the opinion of the School of Engineering Education or Purdue University.