Maria Vieira

Maria Vieira is a Lecturer in Education Futures and PhD Candidate in STEM at the University of South Australia.
She coordinates gender equity programs in the Outreach team involving more than 500 schoolgirls in South Australia and Victoria.
She is passionate about delivering innovative education experiences that cultivate creativity, critical thinking, and communication skills in STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths - to educate and inspire females in this field.

Politics

Here’s the good news in the federal government scrapping the Women in STEM Ambassador program

- June 5, 2024 3 MIN READ

Last week, Science and Industry Minister Ed Husic announced with little fanfare that the position of Australia’s Women in STEM Ambassador would be discontinued, effective three days later. The role was created in October 2018 “to encourage girls and women to study and work in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields”. Astrophysicist Lisa Harvey-Smith… Read more »