The April episode of The States of Matter Podcast is now available. 

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Self-belief, determination and role models. Three things that led both Catarina Marques and Nasheen Basha to have successful academic careers.

This month's guests discuss the importance of women realising they don’t have to be perfect, the advantages of working in diverse teams and how learning through failure is not as scary as it sounds.

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