Dr Mert and Dr Çizakça write about Professor Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı: A prominent Turkish Psychologist whose theories on ‘The Model of Family Change’ and the ‘Autonomous-Related Self’ gave her much recognition in the field of Psychology. Continue reading
Category Archives: Contemporary
An Interview with Professor Teresa Anderson MBE
Rebecca interviews Professor Teresa Anderson MBE the Director of Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre about women in physics Continue reading
A Conversation With Playwright Flo Read
By Emily Oldham. Since Flo Read’s Twin Primes won Best Script and Best Production in the 2015 Oxford New Writing Festival, she has gone on to develop several more acclaimed plays. Her work has been performed both nationally and internationally, including at the Edinburgh Fringe 2015 and 2016. She recently graduated from Oxford University with … Continue reading
Doris Salcedo’s Untitleds
By Emily Oldham. Picture a room: spacious, with blank-white walls, it seems the height of impersonality. From this coldness loom dozens of furniture pieces, every crevice suffused by cement, figures of unapologetically brutal beauty. Some contain embedded hair, bone and even clothing. The absence of a body becomes starkly physical; concrete seeps into every inch of … Continue reading
Finding an inner voice through outer expression in the music of Meredith Monk
By George Chambers “Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn’t work.” Meredith Monk The compositional … Continue reading
Project Juno: Trudy Coe and Women in Physics
Click here to read the extended version of this interview. Gaia Donati talks to Trudy Coe, Project Juno Officer in the Department of Physics, University of Oxford, 26th January 2011. I am very grateful to Carrie Leonard-McIntyre for putting me in touch with Trudy Coe, who is currently working for the Department of Physics at the University … Continue reading
Elinor Ostrom and Economic Governance
By Eleanor Connolly. This year Elinor Ostrom became the first ever female recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Ostrom’s win was revolutionary for her gender, but more importantly because the research she was awarded for has overturned commonly held assumptions about basic human economic interaction. The prize was shared Oliver E. Williamson for … Continue reading
