The University of Oxford is asking the public for donations to support a new chemistry fellowship that will be awarded to someone returning to research after a career break.

The Dorothy Hodgkin fellowship named after the x-ray crystallographer and chemistry Nobel laureate who was the first woman at the university to receive maternity pay aims to help address the leaky pipeline of women leaving academia. The initial goal is to fund a five-year research post in the universitys chemistry department as well as a stipendiary lecturer to cover teaching.

The crowdfunding campaign is a joint enterprise between the universitys chemistry department and Somerville College, where Hodgkin was a fellow.

So far it has raised more than 162,000 of the 500,000 target. When the total reaches 196,500 it will be matched by a group of four anonymous donors. Eventually, the project hopes to raise enough money to ensure a continuous stream of fellows returning to chemistry.

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Public donations sought for career returners' chemistry fellowship - Chemistry World (subscription)