Professor Fay Dowker

Professor of Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics

“I work on quantum gravity and on the foundations of quantum theory. I am a socialist and a feminist and I have found it helpful to try to understand my experience of being a woman in an overwhelmingly male dominated field using the class concepts and the historical, material analysis inherent in socialism and feminism.

"I had brilliant and supportive female maths teachers at school, women who might have been able to be academics themselves had society not been so sexist. When I am discouraged, I use my feeling of responsibility to my foremothers who were denied their chances to be mathematicians and physicists and to the younger generation of women coming after me, to inspire me to keep going.”