Meezaan Tanveer a physics student within the division of natural sciences attended the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics a three-day conference bringing\u00a0together undergraduates who identify as women.<\/p>\n
Meezaan\u00a0Tanveer,\u00a0a\u00a0Kent Physics student\u00a0attended\u00a0the\u00a0exclusive\u00a0Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics.\u00a0<\/span>Designed to\u00a0encourage undergraduates to continue in physics by focusing on their development as a scientist and showcasing options for their educational and professional futures, the\u00a0three-day\u00a0event\u00a0bought\u00a0together undergraduates who identify as women<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The\u00a0<\/span>CUWiP\u00a0UK<\/span>\u00a0conference was included\u00a0<\/span>presentations by distinguished physicists on their cutting-edge research and personal career paths, and those interested in attending has to apply for a place. Meezan explains why she applied and tells us a bit more about the event:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI r<\/span><\/i>eceived\u00a0an email from my\u00a0Academic Advisor about the conference, and it piqued my interest since all the speakers were female physicists. What also caught my attention was that the speakers were all in different lines of work, but all did physics\u00a0undergraduate\u00a0degrees.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n I wanted to understand more about potential career paths for physics students and how other people ended up on different career paths as well as learning more about the experiences of women in physics. I felt like many of my peers knew what fields they wanted to do in the future, but I didn\u2019t really know what I wanted to do in the future. I wanted to explore what I could do, and I thought this conference would be a great place to start!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n The\u00a0event covered a wide range of topics and talks, as well as\u00a0expert panels\u00a0on\u00a0graduate study and career opportunities outside of academia; workshops on effective assertiveness and successful marketing through CVs, cover letters, and interviews.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n I also got to experience\u00a0online lab tours of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider where explanations of experiments that the labs were conducted and how they work took place.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n The experience was empowering and interesting and in particular I was really inspired by learning about what each speaker was doing with their career, from theoretical particle physicists to leading unmanned space missions to the current Chief Executive of the MET office!\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If you have been to a conference and would like to share your experience, contact us at NatsNews@kent.ac.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meezaan Tanveer a physics student within the division of natural sciences attended the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics a three-day conference bringing\u00a0together undergraduates who … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40702,"featured_media":487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[99361,20367,28766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/physastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/physastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/physastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/physastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/physastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/physastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/physastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/physastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/physastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/physastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/physastro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}