Professor Cordelia Fine delivers the 5th Carnegie Lecture

On 31 May 2018, we were pleased to welcome Professor Cordelia Fine to give the 5th Carnegie Lecture, titled Science, Gender & Equality

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Professor Cordelia Fine is an academic psychologist & award-winning writer on sex, gender and science.

Studying at University of Oxford gained her achievements in Experimental Psychology followed by an MPhil in Criminology at the University of Cambridge. She was awarded a PhD in Psychology from University College London and is now a Professor in the History and Philosophy of Science programme at the University of Melbourne.

She recieved the 2018 Edinburgh Medal, a prestigious award that recognises scientists who have excelled in their field and have contributed significantly to our understanding and wellbeing of society. She received the award for her work in challenging gender bias in science and for her contributions to public debates about gender equality.

Professor Fine’s second book, Delusions of Gender, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, the Best Book of Ideas 2011, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the biannual cross-genre Warwick Prize 2013.

Her latest book, Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of our Gendered Minds, won the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize in 2017. 

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