About us

While empowering women in the bioeconomy is still the primary goal of the Bioladies Network, it is an inclusive and safe space for all those that work in any sector of the bioeconomy. The members of the network help each other in various ways including mentoring, introductions, personal development and career advice and sharing information at events and via regular communications. Please click here to find out more about the network or if you are interested in joining us.

Events

On Tuesday 1 October between 11:00 and 17:00 (drop in any time) at the University of Westminster in central London, we will be starting a new project. The Bioladies Collection: A Portfolio of Portraits Documenting the Bioladies Network will comprise a series of images which will be taken by BioLad Ram Shergill to document our wonderful members (BioLads and BioLadies) and sectors of the bioeconomy.

Don’t miss your once in a lifetime opportunity to be snapped by our famous biolad. It will be highly enjoyable for those who can attend; those who cannot make it on that day will be informed of other dates for the project to continue the project. We look forward to seeing you! Please contact ramshergill@hotmail.com for further details and to confirm your attendance.

Later on Tuesday 1 October, also at the University of Westminster, we will be holding a Mentoring workshop – please note that this has been postponed from 24 September. More details and tickets can be found on Eventbrite. Please do register and add it to your calendars so that you can find out why mentoring is important in all stages of study and career and then meet some of our more experienced Bioladies and lads and ask them any question for 5 minutes!

We meet up at least once a month to hear presentations and to network; we also occasionally get together via Zoom. You will usually need to register to attend the in person events but they are open to all so please feel free to share links with colleagues who may be interested. Details of how to access the meetings held via Zoom are circulated in our monthly email updates.

More detail on future events can be found here and of previous events here.

Information sharing

In addition to regular news updates on our twitter feed, the occasional image on Instagram and our monthly events and email updates, we publish a quarterly newsletter for members and make many of the presentations available on our Youtube channel.

Members of the network who have provided information to be included in the members’ directory also have access to a number of resources including the directory of fellow members who are willing to provide help, support and contacts, details of all presentations given to the network and the archive of all newsletters.

If you are an existing member of the network but have not yet provided information to be included in the members’ directory then please contact us to get a link to the questionnaire.

If you are not yet a member of the network, please complete the form here to apply to join. You will be sent the link to the directory questionnaire once your application has been accepted.