Author

Karel Green

Karel Green is a contributing columnist for Physics World and an astrophysics PhD student at the University of Nottingham, UK. She founded and currently runs a social enterprise called POC², which works to remove the systematic biases that prevents people from marginalized backgrounds progressing in academia and also works to decolonize the current STEM curriculums.

Author archive

How do things work? It all comes down to forces

Karel Green reviews Force: What It Means to Push and Pull, Slip and Grip, Start and Stop by Henry Petroski

Journey to the stars: the personal stories of women in astronomy

Karel Green reviews The Sky Is For Everyone: Women Astronomers In Their Own Words edited by Virginia Trimble and David A Weintraub

Watercolour illustration of six students struggling alone with workload and stress

Stress, overwork and no support: what happens when your PhD funding runs out

Karel Green highlights the struggles PhD students face if their degrees don’t go to plan

The danger of contaminating the night sky

Karel Green says that while private space endeavours are to be welcomed, we should not ignore the social and ethical concerns that they raise

The importance of taking time out

With the pandemic resulting in widescale burnout among academics, Karel Green says that stepping away from the office has never been so essential

Protect the scientists of tomorrow from the impact of the pandemic

Karel Green says that funders must support all PhD students due to the devastating impact on research caused by the COVID-19 pandemic