Five Minutes with Professor Katherine Andrews | Getting Kids into STEM

There’s a significant shortage of people working in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). According to STEM.org.uk, this shortage is costing businesses £1.5 billion a year in recruitment, temporary staffing, inflated salaries and additional training costs. Trying to change that is Professor Katherine Andrews, a parasitologist and the Project Manager of ‘That’s RAD! Science’. The aim of which is to bring STEM careers alive for children through a series of fun and educational picture books. Katherine is the Author of one of the books in the series titled ‘My Mum is a Parasite Scientist, That’s Rad’. This is Five Minutes with Katherine Andrews.