Menu

Diversity

“Combining life and a career can be challenging. The women in these conversations have all found a way to thrive and have achieved great things.”

Medical Women Talking podcast

Medical Women Talking features interviews with inspiring women doctors from diverse specialties and backgrounds, showcasing their successful medical careers.

“Diversity brings much more than equal participation, it makes us stronger and more innovative.”

Professor Muzlifah Haniffa

Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science, Lister Institute Prize Fellow, Professor of Dermatology and Immunology at Newcastle University.

“Seeing a problem in practice is the best way to identify meaningful research questions.”

Professor Lucy Chappell

Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department of Health and Social Care.

“You don’t have to follow one standard ladder into clinical academia, there are multiple routes and more flexibility than people often realise.”

Professor Debbie Sharp

Professor of Primary Health Care at the University of Bristol and Head of School of Clinical Academic Training at the Severn Deanery.

Medicine
Video

“I probably haven’t taken the most typical route to become a clinical academic.”

Dr Jamie Read

Professor of Medical Education and Dean of the Lincoln Medical School at the University of Lincoln.