What is expected of you? How encouraged are you by your community to pursue an ambitious career pathway? How are your aspirations affected by society’s expectations of you? In a country where literacy rates are far lower for girls than for boys, empowering women to become entrepreneurs is no mean feat. The founder of Thinking Minds Ghana, Seth Panyin Boamah (p 04), tells us about the initiative that is challenging societal expectations to achieve just that. Based at Brunel University in the UK, bioscience lecturer Dr Chinedu Agwu introduces BioSci Toolkit (p 42), an information resource page set up to support more students – especially those from BAME communities – to think beyond the traditional STEM choices of medicine and engineering and pursue bioscience.