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Pulsar maintains a regularly updated list of online STEM learning and careers resources and information on available support.

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Why Pulsar?

Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS FRSE FRAS FInstP is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, co-discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. She was credited with “one of the most significant scientific achievements of the 20th century”.

The discovery was recognised by the award of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics, but despite the fact that she was the first to observe the pulsars, Bell was not one of the recipients of the prize.

In 2018, she was awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Following the announcement of the award, she decided to give the whole of the £2.3 million prize money to help female, minority, and refugee students seeking to become physics researchers, the funds to be administered by the Institute of Physics. The resulting bursary scheme is known as the “Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund”.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an inspiration to all women working in STEM.

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A young Jocelyn Bell Burnell pictured in an office

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We are currently running three pilot programmes to help encourage young people in Northern Ireland into STEM careers - our most experimental (and challenging!) pilot is now at its halfway point so we wanted to let you know how [...]

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Reports on Women in STEM

Selected reports which highlight or address the skills shortage in STEM and how greater gender diversity could help solve the problem.

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Women in engineering

Although engineering continues to be a male-dominated profession, since 2010 both the percentage and number of women in engineering roles has increased. This report from Engineering UK uses data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to explore this trend in more detail, focusing on which engineering roles and industries have seen the most progress, in terms of gender balance – and which have seen the least.

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