Monthly Archives: January 2012

A big thank you!

Posted on January 26, 2012 by | 1 Comment

Thank you everyone who attended “New Year New You: Building Confidence in the Workplace” yesterday evening and helped make it a fun and interactive workshop.   Kate’s tomato-sauce topped workshop definitely gave us plenty to think about and work on!  We’ll post on the blog some highlights of the evening soon (and an explanation of why tomato sauce and moving rocks are two of the key elements in building confidence).

We welcome the contributions of our members and friends on the CamAWiSE blog.  Please email me at (info@camawise.org.uk).
Catherine

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Excitement, excitement – Keep the date free!

Posted on January 24, 2012 by | Leave a comment

CamAWiSE are holding the second Career-Development Day on Friday 22nd June 2012:
WISE-UP : Strategies for Success in STEM or 101 ways to make the most of yourself!
Continuing the successful framework on which the 1st Day was organised in 2010, we are basing the day around the themes of ‘making the most of your personality’ and ‘getting your ideas across and acted upon – making your voice heard’.

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Profile: Penny Coggill – Protein Domain Family Database annotator, Sanger Institute

Posted on January 24, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Cambridge AWiSE Steering Group member – PENNY COGGILL

I currently work at the Sanger Institute, on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus at Hinxton, as an annotator for a database of protein domain-families. 

I have been there since I decided to return to work after nearly 30 years of living abroad, bringing up three children and a lot of voluntary work. 

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and if I had known in 1999 what I know now about all the opportunities for re-training in Cambridge that AWiSE has encouraged and championed …well, I might not be at the Sanger and I do love my job and its a great place to work. 

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Profile: Dr Tennie Videler – Programme Manager at Vitae

Posted on January 19, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Cambridge AWiSE co-Chair - DR TENNIE VIDELER

I currently work as a programme manager for a national careers organisation specialising in careers and development of researchers (called Vitae: www.vitae.ac.uk).  How did I get here from a science background and is it still of use?

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A very personal report on Professor Dame Sandra Dawson’s talk in November

Posted on January 5, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Professor Dame Sandra Dawson is a Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, professor of Management Studies at Judge Business School (which she pretty much founded and led for 10 years), and was the first female Master of Sidney Sussex College. She has previously worked in the civil service and as a researcher, lecturer and professor at Imperial College. She is now non-executive director of the UK Financial Services Authority as well as Oxfam.
I like to try and distill a talk I’ve listened to/ report I’ve read into a few ‘learning points’ (for historical reasons this has crystalised into 9, but I find it is just useful to have a number to whittle down to/ group into).  So here are my favourite 9 points….
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