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= A/Professor Caroline Ford (medical researcher) = Associate Professor Caroline Ford is an Australian scientist at the University of New South Wales and advocate for women in science. Her research aims to understand why gynaecological cancers develop, how they spread and how best to treat them, and she leads the Gynaecological Cancer Research Group at the University of New South Wales, which established in 2010.

Education
Ford completed her PhD at the University of New South Wales in oncogenic viruses. She also has completed a Graduate Certificate in University Learning & Teaching. She completed her first postdoctoral research appointment at the University of Toronto, Canada and her second position was at Lund University, Sweden, and returned to the University of New South Wales in late 2009.

Research
Ford leads the Gynaecological Cancer Research Group at the University of New South Wales. Her team has a particular focus in the Wnt signalling pathway, which is involved in cancer metastasis.

Teaching
Ford is an experienced university lecturer, including convening Australia's first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on ‘Personalised Medicine’, which attracted over 20,000 students from 158 countries in the past 2 years.

Science Communication
Ford is a passionate science communicator. In 2017 she was selected as an inaugural Superstar of STEM, a program delivered through Science and Technology Australia, to increase the public visibility of women in STEM and create a critical mass of celebrity Australian female scientists and technologists.

Awards
In 2018 Ford received the Women's Agenda Award for Female Leader in Science, Medicine & Health, for being an emerging leader in science, medicine & health.

STEMinist Book Club
Ford started the global STEMMinist Bookclub in early 2018. This is a bimonthly bookclub discussing feminism and inclusion and diversity in STEM and the broader community, as well the experiences of being a woman in STEMM today. Since its establishment in January 2018, it has amassed more than 1,700 members from 25 different countries, with online discussions on Twitter which facilitates flexibility to join online. Members meet up physically in cities around the world, including Sydney, Dublin, Istanbul, Montreal, and Oxford (often in a pub).