 On how she will encourage more women to become scientists and engineers
Professor Wendy Hall, an innovator in the early forms of the internet, has been made a Dame in the New Year’s Honours List for her services to science and technology. Throughout her career Dame Wendy has achieved a lot of firsts: she was Southampton University’s first female professor of engineering, the first woman to be appointed senior vice president of the Royal Academy of Engineering and in October 2006 she was the first non-US woman to receive the Anita Borg Award for Technical Leadership. She joins Jane to discuss how she wishes to use her new status to encourage more young women to become scientists and engineers. |
