Francesca Gale
Head of Science Engagement and Enrichment for Wellcome Connecting Science, based at the Wellcome Genome Campus near Cambridge. Interested in Genomics, biomedical science, and the natural world.
Location Hinxton, UK
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Francesca Gale made a comment
Some great thoughts here. You may be interested in some of our activities to highlight diversity in Science careers. For younger students we have www.Science4everyone.org, we also have https://mystemmfuture.org/ which has a speaker series discussing lots of different careers.
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Francesca Gale made a comment
If you are enjoying the course please do tweet about it and tag us in @engagewcs
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Nicola you are right about this, there is a lot of discussion at the moment about the best ways to introduce these concepts without leading students down a route of genetic determinism.
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Sorry about that we will look into why that is
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Francesca Gale replied to Laia Pérez Sorribes
There is a lot of discussion about when and how to start talking about genomics in the classroom. Depending on the students you could start at primary but talk in quite simple terms about DNA and how it is an instruction book and that changes or variations in the DNA can change the "instructions". Personally, I think the earlier we talk about it the more...
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Francesca Gale made a comment
Welcome to Week 2 everyone. I hope you are enjoying the course so far :) Please let us know if you have any questions.
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Francesca Gale replied to Pilar Gómez
Sorry you can't access the link. If you email engage@wellcomeconnectingscience.org we can send you a PDF of the article.
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Francesca Gale replied to Fergus Powell
POst-pandemic we are continuing to offer online talks (genomics lite - https://publicengagement.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/genomics-lite) as we found it provides opportunities for students / schools who would not be able to visit.
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Francesca Gale replied to Jon Hale
Would a virtual work experience offer be an option for students where local provision is limited? We are looking to develop this with the use of simulations , videos and potentially live talks and q and A (online)? Would be interested in the hive minds thoughts on this and anyone interested in helping us developing this. email...
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Francesca Gale replied to Sarah Saunders
One of our priorities this year is developing an up-to-date career resource package. If anyone has ideas or thoughts on resources or content that would be useful please let us know.
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Comments noted on the activity - we will review this. Thanks for letting us know.
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Francesca Gale replied to Richard Needham
@ThierryLints your resource sounds great, I will see if there is a way we can share this with the whole course. Tackling ethical issues is an area we hope to develop more resources on. We have a resource genome generation https://www.yourgenome.org/activities/genome-generation and https://www.yourgenome.org/activities/genome-generation-express which is a...
