Formative years:  Born: Coventry 1972 Lived: Hinckley Home of Ada Lovelace  Aged 10 - programmed ZX Spectrum with brother.  Brother joined Demoscene and went on to working IT in the car industry I went back outside to be immersed in nature, growing trees and making things with my hands.  A career advisor advised me to be a children’s art teacher.  I was told ‘There is no point in educating a woman as she just grows up to get married and have children’.  I wanted to be a sculptor but couldn’t afford a kiln so I took up painting for commission in the evening while working in a surveyors office in a large corporation.  I developed a rudimentary database in a IBM mainframe run corporation where, using their first PC, I developed a rudimentary database to track reports using Lotus 1-2-3.  The organisation paid its female workers less pay and did not give credit for their work.  Married and had children (IPV)  Joined Coventry University as a l...