KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith
KEYNOTE TOPIC: Where can STEM take me?
We are excited to welcome the esteemed Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith to the keynote plenary of our Charles Sturt University Professional Learning event at Charles Sturt University, Port Macquarie!
For young people and their parents, STEM can sometimes seem like an impractical, academic set of disciplines with a narrow range of possible career outcomes. But government figures show that people with STEM qualifications are in high demand. They earn more than people who are not STEM-qualified, and STEM jobs are predicted to grow twice as fast as non-STEM jobs over the coming years.
Through storytelling about her own diverse career in STEM and beyond, and by sharing insights about Australia’s STEM workforce trends, Lisa Harvey-Smith explains how STEM qualifications set students up to have greater choice and freedom in their own career journeys.
Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith is an award-winning astrophysicist, author and science communicator with research interests in the birth and death of stars, cosmic magnetic fields and black holes. Harvey-Smith is a CEO, a Professor of Practice at the University of New South Wales and former Australian Government’s Women in STEM Ambassador. She has written more than 55 academic publications and six popular science books, with 5 more on the way next year. Her awards include the CSIRO Chairman’s Medal and the Eureka Prize for promoting the understanding of Australian science research. She has performed on stage with Apollo astronauts including Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke and Gene Cernan and was a presenter on the ABC’s hit astronomy show Stargazing Live.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith
KEYNOTE TOPIC: Where can STEM take me?
We are excited to welcome the esteemed Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith to the keynote plenary of our Charles Sturt University Professional Learning event at Charles Sturt University, Port Macquarie!
For young people and their parents, STEM can sometimes seem like an impractical, academic set of disciplines with a narrow range of possible career outcomes. But government figures show that people with STEM qualifications are in high demand. They earn more than people who are not STEM-qualified, and STEM jobs are predicted to grow twice as fast as non-STEM jobs over the coming years.
Through storytelling about her own diverse career in STEM and beyond, and by sharing insights about Australia’s STEM workforce trends, Lisa Harvey-Smith explains how STEM qualifications set students up to have greater choice and freedom in their own career journeys.
Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith is an award-winning astrophysicist, author and science communicator with research interests in the birth and death of stars, cosmic magnetic fields and black holes. Harvey-Smith is a CEO, a Professor of Practice at the University of New South Wales and former Australian Government’s Women in STEM Ambassador. She has written more than 55 academic publications and six popular science books, with 5 more on the way next year. Her awards include the CSIRO Chairman’s Medal and the Eureka Prize for promoting the understanding of Australian science research. She has performed on stage with Apollo astronauts including Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke and Gene Cernan and was a presenter on the ABC’s hit astronomy show Stargazing Live.