The Suffrage Science award is a prize for women in science, engineering and computing founded in 2011, on the 100th anniversary of

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by the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS). There are three categories of award: #

life science Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from that which does not, and is defined by the capacity for growth, reaction to stimuli, metabolism, energy ...

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engineering Engineering is the use of scientific method, scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad rang ...

and

physical science Physical science is a branch of natural science that studies non-living systems, in contrast to life science. It in turn has many branches, each referred to as a "physical science", together called the "physical sciences". Definition Phys ...

s # mathematics and

computing Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and development of both hardware and software. Computing has scientific, ...

. The life sciences award was founded in 2011. Every year there are 10 laureates from research backgrounds and one laureate for communication. The engineering and physical sciences award was founded in 2013. Every year there are 12 laureates from areas spanning

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which rel ...

, chemistry and more. The math and computing award was launched on Ada Lovelace Day, 2016. Every year there are five laureates from mathematics, five laureates from computing and one laureate for

science communication Science communication is the practice of informing, educating, raising awareness of science-related topics, and increasing the sense of wonder about scientific discoveries and arguments. Science communicators and audiences are ambiguously def ...

and the

public awareness of science Public awareness of science (PAwS) is everything relating to the awareness, attitudes, behaviors, opinions, and activities that comprise the relations between the general public or lay society as a whole to scientific knowledge and organization. ...

Laureates

Laureates have included:

2021

Engineering and Physical Sciences winners are: Dr_Hayaatun_Sillem

* , European Space Agency, The Netherlands *

Syma Khalid Syma Khalid is a British biophysicist who is a Professor of Computational Microbiology in at the University of Oxford. She was awarded the Suffrage Science award for engineering and physical sciences in 2021. Early life and education Khalid gr ...

, University of Southampton, UK * Natalie Stingelin, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * , Leiden University, The Netherlands * Hayaatun Sillem, CBE, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK * Ruth Cameron, University of Cambridge, UK * , Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden * , Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Spain *

Samaya Nissanke Samaya Michiko Nissanke is an astrophysicist, associate professor in gravitational wave and multi-messenger astrophysics and the spokesperson for the GRAPPA Centre for Excellence in Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics at the University of Amst ...

, University of Amsterdam and Nikhef, The Netherlands * Gerjo van Osch, Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands * Valérie Orsat, McGill University, Canada * Mary Anti Chama, University of Ghana, Ghana

2020

Life Sciences award winners are: * , MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology * , University of Toronto, Canada * Elspeth Garman, University of Oxford, UK * Veronique Miron, University of Edinburgh, UK * , I-STEM, France * Zena Werb, University of California, San Francisco, USA *

Samantha Joye Samantha "Mandy" Joye is an American oceanographer who is well known for her work studying the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. She is a professor (Athletic Association Professor in Arts and Sciences) at the University of Georgia in the Department ...

, University of Georgia, USA * Gisou van der Goot, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland * Karalyn Patterson, University of Cambridge, UK * , University of Texas Austin, USA * Claudia Mazzà, University of Sheffield, UK Wendy_Mackay

Maths and Computing award winners are: * , Cardiff University * , Lancaster University, UK, and ENSIIE, France * Apala Majumdar, University of Strathclyde * ,

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, Inria, Paris-Saclay, France * Yvonne Rogers, University College London * Alexandra Silva, University College London *

Nobuko Yoshida FBCS is the Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing in the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. Yoshida undertook her BSc (1992) and MSc (1994) at the Keio University, Japan, before completing her PhD (1996) jointly at the ...

, Imperial College London * Sue Sentance, King’s College London

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Anne-Marie Imafidon Anne-Marie Osawemwenze Ore-Ofe Imafidon (born 24 June 1990) is a British-Nigerian computer scientist. Imafidon founded and became CEO of Stemettes in 2013, a social enterprise promoting women in STEM careers. She was a computing, mathematics a ...

, STEMettes

2019

Engineering and Physical Sciences *

Moira Jardine Moira Mary Jardine is a British astrophysicist with an interest in young stars, particularly the structure of their magnetic fields and coronae, and the mechanisms by which they interact with their disks and planets. She was promoted to a Pers ...

* Sarah Harris *

Róisín Owens Róisín Owens is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. Her research investigates new engineering technology for biological applications with ...

* Tiny de Keuster Universiteit Gent * Karen Holford * Serena Best * Tara Garnett * Isabel Palacios * Amina Helmi *

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* Marzieh Moosavi-Nasab * Melinda Duer

2018

Life sciences: * Cathy Price * * Claire Rougeulle *

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* Jenny Martin * Anna Wu * Mikala Egeblad * * Anat Mirelman *Elizabeth Bradbury * Susan M. Gaines Maths and Computing * * Tereza Neocleous * Nina Snaith *

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* Eugenie Hunsicker *

Sally Fincher Sally A. Fincher (born 1959) is a British Computer Scientist and Emerita Professor of Computing Education at the University of Kent. She was awarded the Suffrage Science award in 2018 the SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer ...

* Julie McCann * Jane Hillston *

Ursula Martin Ursula Hilda Mary Martin (born 3 August 1953) is a British computer scientist, with research interests in theoretical computer science and formal methods. She is also known for her activities aimed at encouraging women in the fields of comput ...

* Hannah Dee *

Vicky Neale Victoria Neale (1984 – 3 May 2023) was a British mathematician and writer. She was Whitehead Lecturer at Oxford's Mathematical Institute and Supernumerary Fellow at Balliol College. Her research specialty was number theory. The author of th ...

2017

Engineering * Lyndsay Fletcher * *

Rylie Green Rylie Green is an Australian biomedical engineer who is a Professor at Imperial College London. She works on bioactive conducting polymers for applications in medical electronics. Education Green is Australian. She received her PhD in neu ...

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* * Marta Vicente-Crespo * Marileen Dogterom *

Sheila MacNeil Sheila MacNeil is a Professor of Tissue Engineering at the University of Sheffield. She works alongside NHS clinicians to use tissue engineered skin to benefit patients with burns, chronic ulcers and those recovering from surgery. She developed ...

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* Sharon Ashbrook

2016

Life sciences: *

Kia Nobre Anna Christina Nobre, FBA, MAE, fNASc (born 1963), known as Kia Nobre is a Brazilian and British cognitive neuroscientist working at the University of Oxford in England. Nobre holds the chair in Translational Cognitive Neuroscience shared ...

* Lori Passmore * Déborah Bourc'his * Uraina Clark * Michelle James * *

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* Pippa Goldschmidt Maths and computing: Professor_Christl_Donnelly_FMedSci_FRS

Christl Donnelly Christl Ann Donnelly (born June 1967) is a professor of statistical epidemiology at Imperial College London, the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford. She serves as associate director of the MRC Centre for Global I ...

* Jane Hutton *

Frances Kirwan Dame Frances Clare Kirwan, (born 21 August 1959) is a British mathematician, currently Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford. Her fields of specialisation are algebraic and symplectic geometry. Education Kirwan was ed ...

* Sylvia Richardson * Gwyneth Stallard * Ann Blandford *

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* Leslie Ann Goldberg *

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Celia Hoyles Dame Celia Mary Hoyles, ( French; born 18 May 1946) is a British mathematician, educationalist and Professor of Mathematics Education at University College London (UCL), in the Institute of Education (IoE). Early life and education Celia Mary F ...

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Marta Kwiatkowska Marta Zofia Kwiatkowska is a Polish theoretical computer scientist based in the United Kingdom. Kwiatkowska is Professor of Computing Systems in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, England, and a Fellow of Trin ...

* Emma McCoy

2015

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* * * Susan Condor , Loughborough *

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* Ruth Wilcox, Leeds *

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* Tamsin Edwards * Polly Arnold

2014

* Irene Tracey *

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* Xiaomeng Xu *

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* * Kate Storey *

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* * Jennifer Rohn

2013

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* Kathy Sykes

2012

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* Edith Heard * Marysia Placzek * Sarah Teichmann * Christiana Ruhrberg *

2011

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References

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