{"id":474,"date":"2013-10-15T15:40:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=474"},"modified":"2013-10-15T15:40:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T15:40:27","slug":"her-in-hero-professor-dame-wendy-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"HER in Hero: Professor Dame Wendy Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nominated by: Wendy McDonald \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’d like to nominate Professor Dame Wendy Hall – I only recently came across her and her work through listening to ‘The Life Scientific’. It was fantastic to hear her talk about her route to becoming such a prominent computer scientist having originally thought that computers had nothing much to offer her. Not only is she a hugely intelligent and successful scientist but she also sounds like an inspirational manager – leading the\u00a0School of Electronics and Computer Science from 2002 to 2007, during which time the department lost much of its work and infrastructure in a severe fire.<\/p>\n

I also had to nominate her as she shares my name and it’s not often that you come across another Wendy, especially in the STEM world.<\/p>\n

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