Possibly useful for a number of reasons (especially if you are convening a conference):
http://sites.google.com/site/scienceprofsuk/the-list
Things that I noticed while compiling (note this is based only on RAE-18 returned departments):
There are 36 female Chemistry professors/180 total female academics (unless I miscounted/mistyped [Ed 19/04/11: I had - I'd managed to miss Liverpool, now corected]). UCL does the best with 5 of these.
23 hold research fellowships, mostly Royal Society, EPSRC or Dorothy Hodgkin. There are 2 FRS’s.
York does really well on total representation. I had heard good things about their activities with Athena Swan too.
Alison is a popular first name, as is Christine.
Crystallography and solid state inorganic chemistry seem fairly popular, as is computational chemistry.
Some university websites are diabolical if you want to find the staff pages, and there are interesting things departments have done to look like they had more staff. Others were very easy to navigate – these tend to have followed a standard format and have probably bought a package from an outside provider (as they were quite similar).
I’m sure there is a lot more analysis that could be done, but I really need to procrastinate less.
[Ed 19/04/11]: Also, let me know if there are any additional corrections, and if you want to generate an extended list – then I can link to it from here.
There are more than 175 female chemistry academics – did you just count in chemistry departments? What about chemistry divisions in schools or departments of physical sciences (think Nottingham Trent, Kent or Keele)?
Thanks for the comment KJHaxton. I agree there are other departments (and thus other academics), which is why I specified that I was listing only RAE-submitted departments in the summary of how the data was compiled. I might also have missed some people even then. If you wish to extend the list to other departments, please feel free. One might also consider Chemical Engineering departments, or picking out the Chemists from amongst Natural Sciences/Bio & Med Sciences departments.
Interesting list, and I can see that many institutions are doing better than mine (Liverpool), but there are two women at Liverpool Chemistry not included here, who fit your criteria, Helen Aspinall and Rasmita Raval. We also have at least one woman on a fellowship, though she does no teaching at present (as far as I know), so may not fit the full criteria.
Hi Simon – thanks for picking up the glaring omission! Liverpool should now be on the list.
How could I have forgotten Heike? Unforgivable! :)
I haven’t met Heike yet, but I’m mortified that I forgot Helen! Part of the reason I tried putting all the caveats on …
Have you missed Keele of the list? We have 3 female academics in Chemistry. Also, Liverpool (with 2) seems to have been missed. But very interesting.
Hi Rob – Keele was not on the RAE listing, so was not included. As mentioned in the reply to kjhaxton, if you have time to compile an extended list, this would be great.
Liverpool was on the RAE, but I’d inadvertently missed it! Hopefully corrected now :)