What are the benefits of being a mature student?

In the penultimate episode of Stemettes Say What?, Head Stemette and CEO Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon and co-host Lauryn Mwale continue to ask the important questions. This week, they spoke to Professor Sue Black OBE and asked her: what are the benefits of being a mature student?

Sue is a Professor of Computer Science at Durham University. Life-long learning is the theme of the day, and Professor Black gets deep and shares her personal story about her journey in education. The topics covered in this episode include applying for courses, loans, accommodation, ageism, work-life balance and much more!

You can also connect with Professor Sue Black on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dr_Black and on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sueblack/

Listen to Sue’s podcast, ‘100 Moments That Rocked Computer Science’ here: https://podfollow.com/1570420393

For more information about The Institute of Mathematics (IMA), visit: https://ima.org.uk/

Find out more about Stemettes and this podcast at https://stemettes.org/podcast/. You can follow @Stemettes on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok, as well as on Linkedin. We have a newsletter that you can join too: bit.ly/StemettesNewsletter.

Join us at our next Stemettes event: www.stemettes.org/events

On the importance of mentorship: https://stemettes.org/zine/articles/how-important-is-mentorship-ideas-from-a-panel-of-experts/

On whether it’s hard being a woman in STEM: https://stemettes.org/zine/articles/is-it-always-hard-being-a-woman-in-the-workplace-doing-stem/

On internships for your future career: https://stemettes.org/zine/articles/how-important-is-an-internship-for-your-future-career/

Produced by Sarah Myles and assisted by Christopher Mitchell for Unedited.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.