RaNT showcased at annual Women in Science event.

Soapbox Science returned to Princesshay Shopping Centre in Exeter today, where Dr. Priyanka Dey was on the podium representing RaNT, and showing shoppers that really great science isn’t just the purview of male researchers.

Priyanka Dey talks to the crowd in Exeter’s Princesshay Shopping Centre. Photograph by: Suzy Eldershaw

Starting at London’s South Bank in 2011, Soapbox Science has grown into an annual event hosted by 40 cities in 8 countries across the world. Since 2015, 59 fantastic female scientists have taken to the podium in Exeter, bringing their incredible frontline research out of the lab and onto the pavement.

Soapbox Science aims to eliminate gender inequality in the sciences by increasing the visibility of Women in Science, and growing public access to the best active scientific research.

Learn more about the initiative here.

Dr. Priyanka Dey on the soapbox. Photograph by: Suzy Eldershaw

Priyanka revealed the cancer detecting superpowers of her gold nanostructures, and spoke to the crowd about how these tiny little superheroes might be used to treat a whole range of different diseases.

Read Priyanka’s Science Story here.