The Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit of the University of Vigo presented one of its latest projects at the event commemorating International Women’s Day: the publication “I want to be a researcher“. They are ten short stories, in the style of a story, through which the experience and experiences of ten scientists who have committed to doing what they love and to collaborating in the advancement of society by working from the University of Vigo are disseminated. Among them, Elena Ojea, researcher at the Future Oceans Lab of the CIM-UVigo.
The fundamental objective is to value and make visible contemporary women scientists, pioneers in many cases, and to awaken the research vocation among the youngest, with female figures from their environment as a reference. This is because, in recent years, the scientific field has been focusing on making women visible to encourage their participation in this field as part of a strategy that aims to favor a more just and egalitarian world where women have a presence in the primary areas of knowledge in the coming years. However, in these cases, reference is always made to women of great talent such as Marie Curie, Jane Godwall, Ada Lovelace, etc., who are not the same age as the girls and boys and who are even very far away, geographically speaking, from these girls and boys.
The Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit intended that this project would break the mold, aiming to offer new generations examples of current female researchers who are much closer than is usually thought. These are Julia Armesto González, Lola Dopico Aneiros, Francisca Fariña Rivera, Ana Garriga Domínguez, María Lameiras Fernández, Elena Ojea Fernández Colmeiro, Lorena Otero Cerdeira, María Concepción Paz Penín, Elena Sánchez Trigo and Diana Valverde Pérez.
The aim is for boys and girls to get to know these people and, to this end, it will be distributed in secondary schools throughout Galicia in collaboration with the Vice-Rectorate for Student Recruitment, Students and University Extension. It will also be available on the university website and will be accompanied by a simple teaching unit that will facilitate working with this tool in class.
Meet the protagonists of “I want to be a researcher”
Fonte: Unidade de Cultura Científica da Universidade de Vigo
