Great start to the HEI Rural Development Symposium 2026 this morning, with opening remarks from Minister of State Jerry Buttimer and an opening session from Prof Felicity Kelliher and Dr Leana Reinl of SETU Faculty of Business and Dr Noel Murray of MTU. 🧵

If you know someone who should be part of this conversation, tag them below ⬇️

We're looking for women science graduates to share their career stories in the Irish pharmaceutical industry.

Research like this can actually shift how organisations think about retention and career development. If we can show what's working and what's not, we can make real change.

Billy Goodwin@billygoodwin1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Really happy to be part of @pharmacareers.bsky.social When women leave STEM careers, we blame pipeline or choice. PharmaCareers asks something different: what actually happens across a working life? Get in touch to participate, or @ anyone who may be interested #WomenInSTEM #PharmaCareers

PharmaCareers is based at SETU and funded by Taighde Éireann Research Ireland under COALESCE. 🔬 @setu-research.bsky.social @researchireland.ie #QualitativeResearch #GenderAndWork

That matters because careers are rarely tidy sequences of individual choices. They unfold through organisations, opportunities, place, relationships and caring responsibilities. BNIM gives participants room to show us what mattered and where the story changed direction.

1/ Most careers research asks people to explain their decisions. BNIM begins somewhere else: tell me the story, then listen. On @pharmacareers.bsky.social , we’re using it to study the career life-courses of women science graduates in Ireland’s pharmaceutical industry. 🎙️🧵

Getting women into science was the question a generation ago. What happens at year ten is the question now. @pharmacareers.bsky.social at SETU is interviewing women science graduates who stayed in pharma, moved sideways or left. Fieldwork open. #WomenInSTEM #PharmaCareers

Kevin White@kevin-white.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We’re recruiting participants for the PharmaCareers research project at SETU! 🔬 Funded by Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland under COALESCE, we’re exploring women’s career journeys in Ireland’s pharma industry and what employers can learn from their experiences. Interested? Get in touch or share!

Our fieldwork is in progress. We look forward to connecting with more women about their career story. Please do get in touch if interested in taking part

Our team are looking to connect with women science graduates to share their career stories from working in the Irish pharmaceutical industry. Please share across your networks

@aislingmurtagh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As a rural researcher and geographer, working on @pharmacareers.bsky.social is bringing to light new questions on what impacts the working lives of women in STEM careers and the pharma sector. Understanding the influences from across women’s lives and in different places are important to explore

Great to have you @billygoodwin1.bsky.social

Billy Goodwin@billygoodwin1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Really happy to be part of @pharmacareers.bsky.social When women leave STEM careers, we blame pipeline or choice. PharmaCareers asks something different: what actually happens across a working life? Get in touch to participate, or @ anyone who may be interested #WomenInSTEM #PharmaCareers

👋 Welcome to PharmaCareers. We're a research team at SETU studying the career life-courses of women science graduates in Ireland’s pharmaceutical industry. Funded by Taighde Éireann, Research Ireland, under COALESCE. 🧵