Yvonne Perrie: ‘Good research culture is about being able to learn and fail without judgment’

I wanted to become a fighter pilot, but in the late 1980s women were not allowed to fly planes. That was the first time I learned that my gender impacted my career. I’d never seen it before. I grew up in a world where I thought I was surrounded by female role models, and it never occurred to me that there would be a job I couldn’t do as a woman. It was a reality check.