Dr Jess Wade: Science Outreach & The Wikipedia Bias

The Scientistt Podcast

What's it like to be one of the most influential women in UK tech?

On this episode, we speak to Dr Jess Wade - a physicist, science communicator and champion for gender quality in science. Outside of her research in to polymer-based OLED's, Jess is involved with several outreach initiatives committed to improving diversity in science, both online and offline. Since the start of 2018, she has written the Wikipedia biographies of underrepresented scientists every single day. In this conversation we delve a little deeper in to the "why?" behind Jess' activism, and find out exactly what needs to be done to tackle systemic bias in science.

Find Jess here: https://twitter.com/jesswade