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Turing’s children: Representation of sexual minorities in STEM

15 Dec 2020

On the 15 December 2020, Dr. Dario Sansone presented a webinar on the under-representation of sexual minorities in STEM fields, based on research he conducted with Christopher S. Carpenter, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. The findings were published in Turing’s children: Representation of sexual minorities in STEM (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241596).  

Dr. Dario Sansone is a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Exeter, UK.  He is an applied microeconomist with interests in LGBTQ issues, Machine Learning, Gender, and Education. 

The webinar was co-hosted by the ISS21 Genders, Sexualities and Families (GSF) Research Cluster, the UCC LGBT+ Staff Network, and Athena SWAN. Dr Fiachra Ó Súilleabháin (co-convenor of the GSF cluster) chaired the event.

A recording of the presentation is available here

A PDF of the presentation slides is available here 

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