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Discover resources and opportunities available to support women in STEM across their careers and promote gender equity.
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Have your say: Work and Care in the Time of COVID-19
Ongoing
The University of Melbourne is currently collecting responses for their 'Work & Care in the Time of COVID-19' survey.
TAS
Do you live in Tasmania and want to contribute expertise to the ABC?
Ongoing
ABC News has released a call for more expert women from Tasmania to join their growing database of expert sources. If you are based in Tasmania and would like to assist the ABC in adding diversity to its talent pool, please take a look.
National
Techgirls Competition
Ongoing
The Techgirls Competition is an annual program that changes the way girls perceive and engage in STEM. The program combines problem-solving through a social, business and technical lens, producing high-quality business plans, pitch videos and working app prototypes from girls as young as 7 to 17. Read the full evaluation report here.
Online
Telstra Business Women's Awards
Ongoing
The Telstra Business Women's Awards aim to celebrate outstanding business women who are innovating with a unique approach to how they do business.
National
Prime Minister's Prizes for Science
Ongoing
The Prime Minister's Prizes for Science recognise achievements in scientific research, research-based innovation, and excellence in science teaching.
National
Pint of Science
Ongoing
Pint of Science is an annual science communication event held over three days each May. The event, held in pubs across the country, brings science out into the community as researchers share their discoveries.
SA, Adelaide
Her Tech Path
Ongoing
HerTechPath is a grass-roots community of women in South Australia working in the tech sector who want to celebrate and inspire women and girls to consider rewarding and diverse careers in the technology sector. Our community runs free briefings for high schools in metropolitan Adelaide to showcase "Where can the tech industry take you?" with a panel of women working in the sector.
National
Young Indigenous Women's STEM Academy
Ongoing
The Young Indigenous Women’s STEM Academy (the Academy) will increase the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander females undertaking studies and careers in STEM. The Academy does this through targeted, long-term support to help overcome the barriers that discourage Indigenous women from pursuing STEM careers.The holistic, streamlined approach to support will promote access to STEM careers for high achieving Year 8 and Year 11 students.
National
Fresh Science
Ongoing
Fresh Science is a national competition helping early-career researchers find, and then share, their stories of discovery.
The program takes up-and-coming researchers with no media experience and turns them into spokespeople for science, giving them a taste of life in the limelight, with a day of media training and a public event in their home state.
National
FameLab
Ongoing
FameLab is a live science communication competition that aims to discover charismatic early career scientists who can inspire people to see the world from new perspectives. It is run annually in Australia and in over 25 countries across the world.
If you think you can explain a scientific concept to a general audience, in just three minutes, FameLab's the competition for you! You could become the new face of science, represent your country at the FameLab International final in the UK, and open doors to global opportunities in science communication.