Publications

On this page you can find a selection of my publications, talks, and public outreach.

Space skills publications

• Heidi B. Thiemann, Joseph Dudley (2024). What is the government doing about space skills?, Space Skills Alliance
• Heidi B. Thiemann, Joseph Dudley, Will Lecky, Ewan Dallas (2023). Space Sector Skills Survey 2023, Space Skills Alliance
• Joseph Dudley, Heidi B. Thiemann (2023). How and why people join the UK space sector, Space Skills Alliance
• Joseph Dudley, Heidi B. Thiemann (2022). 5 Solutions to the Space Skills Gap, Space Skills Alliance
• Heidi B. Thiemann, Joseph Dudley (2021). Women in the UK space sector, Space Skills Alliance
• Joseph Dudley, Heidi B. Thiemann (2021). Pay in the UK space sector, Space Skills Alliance
• Joseph Dudley, Heidi B. Thiemann (2021). Demographics of the UK space sector, Space Skills Alliance
• Joseph Dudley, Heidi B. Thiemann (2020). Assessing the quality of space job adverts, Space Skills Alliance
• Heidi B. Thiemann, Joseph Dudley (2020). Skills demand for early career space jobs, Space Skills Alliance
• Joseph Dudley, Heidi B. Thiemann (2020). Towards a space competencies taxonomy, Space Skills Alliance

Space skills tools

• The Space Skills Problem Map
• The UK Space Skills Landscape Map
• Space Skills Literature Library
• SpaceCRAFT Competencies Framework
• The Space Training Catalogue
• Space Recruitment Toolkit

Space skills posters and articles

• ASTRAIOS Project (2024). How and why people join the UK space sector: Results of the 2024 Space Census, International Astronautial Congress
• Heidi B. Thiemann, Joseph Dudley (2024). The role of first degrees in encouraging students to enter the space sector: Analysis by the ASTRAIOS project, International Astronautial Congress
• Joseph Dudley, Heidi B. Thiemann (2023). The UK Space Skills Problem Landscape, UK Space Conference
• Catarina Baldaia, Alex Godfrey, Joseph Dudley, Heidi B. Thiemann (2021). The UK Space Skills Gap, AEROSPACE Magazine, Vol.48 (No. 5, May), pp.26-29
• Aine O’Brien, Anuradha Damale, Joseph Dudley, Lewis Lappin, Heidi B. Thiemann (2019). Diversity in student space activities in the UK, 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

Space education/diversity publications

• Sally Jordan, Sarah Bakewell, Wendy Sadler, Heidi B. Thiemann, Julie Wardlow, Carsten Welsch (2023). Women in physics in the United Kingdom: Successes, challenges, and wider diversity, Women in Physics: 7th IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics
• Anastasia Pesce, Artemis Westenberg, Cécile Deprez, Cessy Karina, Heidi B. Thiemann, Justyna Pelc, Leah-Nani Alconcel, Marcelle Laliberté, Rebecca Harwin, Xenia Pattberg (2022). Visibility of Female Experts, Women In Aerospace - Europe
• Daniel Robson, Henry Lau, Áine O’Brien, Lucy Williams, Ben Sutlieff, Heidi B. Thiemann, Louise McCaul, George Weaver, Tracey Dickens (2019). Assessing the Impact of Space School UK, Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Space Educational Activities, pp. 138-144

Astronomy publications

My ADS publications library can be found here.

• Heidi B. Thiemann, Andrew J. Norton, Ulrich C. Kolb (2024). Discovery of Near Contact Red Giant Eclipsing Binary Stars, (in prep)
• Heidi B. Thiemann, Andrew J. Norton, Ulrich C. Kolb, Hugh J. Dickinson, Adam McMaster (2022). SuperWASP Variable Stars: Classifying Light Curves Using Citizen Science, ADASS XXX
• Jonathan McDowell, Rob Seaman, Cees Bassa, David Galada Enriquez, Oliver Hainaut, Courtney Hodgson, Matt Holman, Moriba Jah, JJ Kavelaars, Keith Poletti, Morgan Schmitz, Pat Seitzer, Jan Siminski, Rachel Street, Hossen Teimoorinia, Heidi B. Thiemann, Connie Walker, Jaffrey Hall (2021). SATCON2 Algorithms Working Group Report, SATCON2
• Heidi B. Thiemann (2021), Variable Stars in the SuperWASP All-Sky Survey, The Open University
• Adam McMaster, Andrew J. Norton, Hugh J. Dickinson, Heidi B. Thiemann, Ulrich C. Kolb (2021). VeSPA: The SuperWASP Variable Star Photometry Archive, Res. Notes AAS
• Heidi B. Thiemann, Andrew J. Norton, Ulrich C. Kolb, Hugh J. Dickinson, Adam McMaster (2021). SuperWASP Variable Stars: Classifying Light Curves Using Citizen Science, MNRAS
• Rawls, M. L., Heidi B. Thiemann, Chemin, V., Walkowicz, L. M., Peel, M. W., Grange, Y. G. (2020). Satellite Constellation Internet Affordability and Need, RNAAS
• Heidi B. Thiemann, Andrew J. Norton, Ulrich C. Kolb (2020). The stellar rotation–activity relation for a sample of SuperWASP and ASAS-SN field stars, PASA

Astronomy posters

• SuperWASP Variable Stars: Classifying Light Curves Using Citizen Science, 2021, STEM for BRITAIN 2021
• SuperWASP Variable Stars: Classifying Light Curves Using Citizen Science, 2020, ADASS XXX
• Red Giant Binary Stars: A new discovery?, 2020, The Open University
• Red novae candidates: An investigation of long-period near-contact giant binaries, 2020, RAS Early Career Online Poster Exhibition
• The rotation-activity relation, 2019, National Astronomy Meeting
• Initial results of the rotation-activity relation, 2018, Time-Domain Astronomy: A High Energy View

Examples of recorded talks and public engagement

• “Attracting, Developing, and Retaining the UK’s Space Workforce”, December 2023
• “NEC Presents: Careers in space”, July 2022
• “BIG GUEST”, November 2021
• “Thinking Women”, November 2021
• “Women in Space: Ada Lovelace Day”, October 2021
• “Women who are out of this world: Heidi Thiemann”, October 2021
• “Space Talk: Searching for Strange Stars!”, January 2021
• “An expert discussion about Venus”, October 2020
• “Ask The Expert: Things that go Bump in the Night…Sky”, September 2020
• “Careers Launch Online - Course Choices panel discussion”, September 2020
• “Red Giant Binary Stars”, July 2019