Dr Nina Baker

Dr Nina Baker has had a varied career, becoming a merchant navy deck officer on leaving school and later gaining an engineering design degree as a mature student, from the University of Warwick, followed by a PhD in concrete durability from the University of Liverpool. She has lived with her family in Glasgow for many years, working mainly in promoting STEM careers for women returners and in research administration in the university sector. From 2007-17 she was a Glasgow city councillor. Now retired from all that, she is an independent historian researching the history of women in engineering.