zoologist | science communicator
My essay for the British Council’s collection “Crossing Points: UK-Poland Common interests, shared concerns” | When I first came to the UK, in 2006, two years after Polish accession to the EU and the opening of the British labour market to Poles, there was a popular joke going round. A British…
My article for the EAIE Forum – Our Gendered World | The metaphor of a glass ceiling, an invisible, often unacknowledged barrier that keeps a certain demographic from career advancement, is often used in the context of women in science. The phenomenon is so globally widespread that it has given…
Making Connections: What is the future for collaboration and mobility of Early Career Researchers across Europe? Together with Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff, I have taken part in a webinar organised by the British Council. We have discussed the future possibilities for early careers researchers in Europe. Here is a run-down of the…
A piece by Sylvia Hui, for Associated Press | Like many foreign scientists in Britain, Joanna Bagniewska was devastated when Britons voted to leave the European Union. The biology lecturer, a Polish migrant who found Britain a welcoming place to build her academic career over a decade, is suddenly seeing her…
My interview for the Soapbox Science blog. Dr Joanna Bagniewska is a zoologist working as a teaching fellow at Reading University’s School of Biological Sciences. Her research interests encompass ecology and conservation biology, particularly the subject of invasive species. She is a very keen science communicator – she won FameLab Poland, gave a…
An article by Peter Hughes in The Oxford Times AS 33,000 Oxford United fans packed the stands at Wembley this month, many were praying for victory. But a football-mad Oxford scientist has suggested that loving the beautiful game is more of a science than a religion. Science Oxford’s creative director…
When the organisers of the first Science Polish Perspetives conference (SPP) – held last year in Oxford – announced there was going to be a sequel, the expectations were running high. Those two autumn days spent in the neoclassical Magdalen Grove Auditorium, buzzing with popular science talks, panel discussions,…