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SUMMARY:Give Me Inspiration! The Paradigm Shift with Professor Dame Carol 
 Robinson - Dame Professor Carol Robinson
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DESCRIPTION:A series of conversations with distinguished academics hosted 
 by Professor Dame Athene Donald.\n\nWhat do academics actually do? What mo
 tivates them to get out of bed each morning and to deliver what is — or 
 in many cases what isn't - expected of them?\n\nFor a student setting out\
 , the life of senior academics may seem very mysterious\, particularly as 
 many may end up taking on responsibilities and activities far removed from
  where an individual started. The trajectory from student to senior academ
 ic is rarely a straight line\, with twists\, setbacks\, time out and/or op
 portunities (taken or declined) all to be combined with a personal life.  
 \n\nThis series of conversations aims to explore the individual paths of s
 ome eminent academics who have made it to the top in their own particular 
 ways. How have they found their own solutions to 'life'\, what tips do the
 y wish they'd been given earlier on\, and what might they view\, retrospec
 tively\, with most pleasure or regret? \n\nThe first in this series will f
 eature Professor Dame Carol Robinson\, DBE FRS and L’Oreal Woman in Scie
 nce 2015.\n\nCarol Robinson is recognised for pioneering the use of mass s
 pectrometry for her research into the 3D structure of proteins. Her most r
 ecent work is concerned with examining how small molecules\, specifically 
 lipids\, impact on the structure and function of membrane assemblies.\n\nC
 arol is a Royal Society Research Professor and Doctor Lee’s Professor of
  Chemistry Elect at the University of Oxford. She is the first woman to ho
 ld a Chair in Chemistry at the University of Oxford and was previously the
  first female Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.\n\nA 
 graduate student at Churchill College\, Cambridge\, she completed her PhD 
 in two years. Following an eight-year career break to begin raising her th
 ree children\, she returned to research at Oxford\, later becoming a titul
 ar professor in 1999.\n\nIn 2001 she moved to Cambridge to continue her re
 search into mass spectrometry and was elected a Professorial Fellow at Chu
 rchill College Cambridge\, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004 and a Roy
 al Society Research Professor in 2006. In 2009 she was elected Doctor Lee
 ’s Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and in 2013 was aw
 arded the title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre\, Churchill College
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