Scientists & Co was born out of the desire to give every child an equal start in life by raising their aspirations and training them to build successful careers in STEM subjects. In short span of 3 years, our team has worked with over 35 schools across the UK and India, reaching over 1000 less-advantaged pupils from various socio-economic backgrounds. We are now 200+ volunteers strong, with a track record of placing our pupils into some of the most prestigious universities.
There is a persistent gender gap in STEM disciples when it comes to academic publishing. Averages across the last 60 years, only 27% of the research publications across all fields of STEM we authored by women (Huang et Al, 2020). This gap worsened during the first wave of the pandemic (Swuazzoni et al 2021).
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, India witnessed increasing social taboos imposed on COVID-19 patients and a rise in the burden of TB cases, from urban poor and rural households. The lack of adequate medical aid, resources and accomodation, several 1000s of people became homeless or were left to fend for themselves at shelters.