One of the great privileges of being a science journalist is getting to talk to fascinating, passionate, engaged, brilliant scientists.
So when the State Library of New South Wales, Australia asked if I was interested in being the interviewer for an oral history project they were interested in establishing, focusing on women in STEM in NSW, I jumped at the opportunity.
It’s a multi-year project, interviewing extraordinary women in science about their lives, their careers, the challenges they have faced and how they overcame them, what they have learned over the course of their careers, and what motivates and drives them.
The first two of those oral history recordings are now live on the State Library NSW website, with Professor Emma Johnston AO FAA FTSE, Professor of Marine Ecology and Ecotoxicology, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research at the University of Sydney, and Emeritus Professor Lesley Hughes, Distinguished Professor of Biology, ecologist and climate scientist, and a Councillor and Director with the Climate Council of Australia.
Bianca Nogrady 