This project is a follow-on from Electrifying Women International, and is led by Prof Graeme Gooday of the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds UK. INWES is collaborating with Prof Gooday and his team including Dr Emily Rees Koerner to help develop a toolkit for gathering oral histories of the many hidden women in STEM around the world.
During late 2022 and early 2023, Prof Gooday, Emily Rees Koerner and students from University of Leeds developed a toolkit and piloted on several interviews of INWES members and other women in STEM. This page will hold the toolkit and first initial stories as created.
The goals of this programme are
- to create and disseminate an oral history toolkit to be used by anyone to record, ethically and accurately, hidden voices and stories;
- to develop a safe and reliable repository of the stories gathered by INWES members of invisible women in STEM around the world;
- and ultimately to make our hidden history more visible.
For more on the work already carried out, see this INWES blog post. INWES has held webinars on this work such as this INWES event.
Our next Herstories event will be held at ICWES19 5th Sept
and this is open to all INWES members! Click here for more on the event.
The Toolkit
The toolkit provided here can be used by any group, in STEM or not.
INWES Toolkit for Recording Histories of Women in STEM
Do let INWES know if you are using this toolkit and we would love to include the stories you collect of women in STEM in our repository! For more information: communications@inwes.net
Our Stories
The stories listed below are given in chronological date order so that the latest additions appear at the top of the list.
Note on privacy and confidentiality: Please note the individuals featured here can at any time request that their story be corrected, amended or removed from this webpage and indeed from the record. To request a correction, amended or removal please contact communications@inwes.net with the subject including “IMPORTANT: Data Request”, and copied to info@inwes.net.