Alexandra Nance

PhD Candidate, School of Biological Science alexandra.nance@monash.edu

Biography

Allie is a PhD candidate in the School of Biological Sciences under the supervision of Dr Rohan Clarke and Dr Carly Cook. Her research is centred on optimising conservation outcomes for small human-inhabited islands, and involves conducting fieldwork on Norfolk Island, where she studies the reproductive ecology and threatening processes of Norfolk’s endemic perching bird species. Outside of her ecological research, Allie is also a passionate advocate for women in STEM.

articles

Deadlines, panic attacks, and the PhD student

“The submission date was looming, and I had been staunchly ignoring the bubbling magma of terror that was slowly rising within me the past few months.”

Education

'You don’t look like a scientist'

Times have changed, but the gendered stereotype that scientists are predominantly serious, professional, white men is one that persists.

Celebrating women