LGBTI+ Inclusion in STEM

A discussion led by Clara Barker on the challenges and achievements of LGBTQI+ inclusion in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Clara Barker is a thin-film material scientist who manages the Centre for Applied Superconductivity, in the materials department at Oxford University. She is the chair of the LGBT+ advisory group to Oxford University and the Dean for Equality and Diversity at Linacre College, as well as a member of the Royal Societies Equality and Diversity Committee. In 2018 she won the first VC’s diversity role model award from the University. She runs a youth group for LGBTI+ young people, is a Stonewall school role model, and presented a talk at a TEDxWomen London event in 2018. For her volunteer work she won a Points of Light Award from the UK Prime Minister in 2017. Her work was briefly profiled in Nature in Jan 2021. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00024-z?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=crs-&utm_content=150121v1