The Women of Outstanding Achievement Photographic Exhibition was an annual event organised by the

UKRC The UKRC (UK Resource Centre) is a UK organisation for the provision of advice, services and policy consultation regarding the under-representation of women in science, engineering, technology and the built environment (SET). It is funded by the ...

. It recognised women within science, engineering and technology (SET). The exhibition was created in 2006. Between six and eight women were chosen each year to be photographed by Robert Taylor. Nominations occur in the Autumn of each year and the recipients were announced at a ceremony in March of the following year. Many of the portraits from previous years are on permanent loan to institutions such as the

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and The

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. The portrait of scientist

Nancy Rothwell Dame Nancy Jane Rothwell (born 2 October 1955) is a British physiologist. She has served as president and vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester since July 2010, having served as Deputy President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor until Janua ...

was purchased by the

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. In March 2010 the exhibition opened at The Royal Academy of Engineering.

Evan Harris Evan Leslie Harris (born 21 October 1965) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford West and Abingdon from 1997 to 2010, losing his seat in the 2010 general election by 176 votes to Conservative ...

, MP for the Liberal Democrats, unveiled the portraits.

Recent Award Recipients

Recent recipients include: * 2010

Helen Atkinson Dame Helen Valerie Atkinson (born 29 April 1960) is Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Cranfield University's School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing. She was previously Head of the University of Leicester's Department of Engineering and later Le ...

, Professor of Engineering and Head of Mechanics of Materials Research Group,

University of Leicester , mottoeng = So that they may have life , established = , type = public research university , endowment = £20.0 million , budget = £326 million , chancellor = David Willetts , vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah , head_labe ...

* 2010 Sarah Baillie, Inventor and creator of the Haptic Cow and Senior Lecturer at the

Royal Veterinary College , mottoeng = Confront disease at onset , established = (became a constituent part of University of London in 1949) , endowment = £10.5 million (2021) , budget = £106.0 million (20 ...

* 2010 Amanda Fisher, Director of the Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre at

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and Professor and Head of Division of Clinical Sciences,

Imperial College, London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

* 2010

Julia Higgins Dame Julia Stretton Higgins (née Downes; born 1 July 1942) is a British polymer scientist. Since 1976 she has been based at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, where (since 2007) she is professor and senior r ...

, Former Principal of the Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London * 2010

Jackie Hunter Ann Jacqueline Hunter Order of the British Empire, CBE Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom, FMedSci FBPharmacolS Royal Society of Biology, FRSB is a British scientist who is a board director of BenevolentAI. Hunter is also a visiting pr ...

, Senior Vice President and Head of Science Environment Development,

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* 2010 Helen Mason, Astrophysicist and Senior Tutor at

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and lead on th
Sun, Trek
Project * 2009

Ann Budge Ann Cochrane Cook Wallace Budge (born 21 February 1948) is a Scottish businesswoman and company director. Career Budge graduated with a psychology degree, and became the first woman appointed to a senior position in Scottish & Newcastle after start ...

, Founder and Former Chief Executive of the

Sopra Group Sopra Steria is a Paris-based consulting, digital services, and software development company. Sopra Steria has a new consulting wing under the “Next” brand. It employs 3,400 consultants across Europe, including 1,900 in the group’s native ...

* 2009

Carolin Crawford Carolin Susan Crawford is a British communicator of science and astrophysicist. She is an emeritus member of the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge and an emeritus fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Education Crawford studied the Mathem ...

, Senior Outreach Officer at the Institute of Astronomy at University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College * 2009

Lynne Frostick Lynne Elizabeth Frostick, (born 2 February 1949) is a chartered British geographer and geologist. She was a Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Hull until 2014. Her research interests include sediment and flow dynamics in riv ...

, Professor of Geography at the

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* 2009 Jenny Gristock, Research Fellow at

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, the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy * 2009 Barbara Jones, Founder and Director of amazonails * 2009

Linda Partridge Professor Dame Linda Partridge (born 18 March 1950) is a British geneticist, who studies the biology and genetics of ageing (biogerontology) and age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Partridge is currently W ...

, Weldon Professor of Biometry and Director of the

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Institute of Healthy Ageing

References

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External links

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