Setting up your Homeward Bound Profile

The community pages and spaces are an important aspect of your HB9 platform experience, allowing you to expand your networks, discuss issues of shared interest and collaborate around impact projects with fellow participants and alumni.

So it’s important your profile fully demonstrate who you are; your STEMM field, your academic & work history, your achievements, your interests and current location. You may also like to add something about yourself.

HB9 Learning Platform Profile Template

Please follow this model:

  • Professional Or Academic Position/s

  • STEMM Fields

  • Biography

    • Your Name
    • Your current professional or academic role/s
    • Your pronouns, Current Location, Nationality
    • Your work and academic history including areas of interest.
    • Your relevant qualifications
    • Your interest or participation in Women in STEMM and women in leadership.
    • Other areas of interest
    • Your intention for joining HB9, your aspiration for HB9
    • Your personal interests/life (optional)

Please see the example provided below

EVA LEARNER
Researcher at University of [Name]; Lecturer at University of [Name]; Director of Science & Research at [Name] [Country]
She/Her, Amsterdam, English

STEMM Fields: Marine Biology

Hi there,
I’m Dr Eva Sample. I’m the Principal Research Scientist at the University of [name], Australia and a lecturer at University of [name] Sydney, Australia and head of [Organisation] NGO in [location].

For the past 20 years I’ve led numerous research projects on marine conservation and biodiversity including [examples]. I have particular interest in the impact of climate change on biodiversity and marine fauna at Sample Reef, Victoria Australia. I’ve published extensively on [topic].

I completed my PHD in [topic] in 2012. I have worked as advisory board member to [organisation] and other government and NGO organisations.

I am actively involved in mentoring women in STEMM including past role as Committee Chair of the Women in STEMM network.

I am interested in [STEMM topics and other areas of interest].

I joined HB9 with the vision to [write intention] and hope to achieve [write aspirations for program]. I look forward to meeting other participants and am particularly interested in discussions on [subjects].

I am an active snorkeller, and swimmer and spend most weekends on the beach with my partner and 2 children.