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As part of the Athena SWAN team’s commitment to highlight successful female scientists, we invited a selection of undergraduates to an academic career session.

Fourth year undergraduate students studying immunology, microbiology, parasitology and virology had the opportunity to listen to Anne Cooke, Professor of Immunology at Cambridge, talk about how key mentors, and serendipity, had shaped her successful research career.

3I’s PhD students, Síle Johnson and Imogen Herbert, and post-doc Daniel Paape also shared their experiences and advice on working in academic science. A key theme from all four was the need to be resilient in the face of the many hurdles in science and to find good mentors and to listen, and act, on their advice.

Those who attended all found the event to be useful, with one student commenting that it had been "a motivational session, which has pushed my hopes to a new height.”

First published: 8 March 2017

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