Here’s how to showcase science careers students can aspire to

Introduce role models to give students a better understanding of different scientific jobs and what they involve. Role models from similar backgrounds to students are particularly motivating and those from underrepresented groups have the broadest positive effects on all students, regardless of the students’ own backgrounds. NUSTEM – an outreach and research group at Northumbria University – created resources that focus on scientists’ attributes because these employability skills provide a way for students to find things they have in common with the STEM role models and aspire to similar careers.