…e initial research assistant posts, a PhD in exactly my interest wasn’t readi*]}*ly available and I studied a more general nutritional epidemiology topic. However, as a post-doc, opportunity came knocking and from then on I have specialised in migration, ethnicity and health. I would not want to do anything else. What made you want to become a scientist/academic? As a child, learning the gory details about nutrient deficiency diseases – the swollen, b…
…edicts that the patient will go on to develop recurrences later. Subsequently, my findings were confirmed by other groups all over the world, and in a range of other cancers too, and that work has formed the basis for everything that I have done scientifically since. Having continued with a couple of post doc positions, I joined Oxford Brookes University as a lecturer in 1995. I teach undergraduates (mostly about health and disease, pathology and…
…this field and inspired me to take up research in building materials. Accordingly, I chose my post-graduate course. It was a postgraduate research program in engineering (PGRPE) in CSIR-Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), Govt. of India. This course experience in CRRI equipped me with the tools needed for research. After that I worked as an Asst. Professor in Madurai, India. Later I joined as a scientist in CSIR- Central Building Research Inst…
…are women. We have also introduced specific programmes such as BLOOM to support women entrepreneurs and an EPSRC Inclusion Matters grant has investigated the barriers and made a number of recommendations to improve the number of women founding or co-founding Spin Outs. Why is it important to empower women in science? Because society can benefit most when the best people work in teams to tackle the challenges facing us. We need to be as inclusive a…
…me accountable for my project and was strict but fair. That year was incredibly challenging but it shaped me into the scientist I am today. I then won a funded PhD to work on invasive species in Ireland, so this is what led me to move to the other side of the world. How would you describe your experience as a woman scientist? Whilst I have experienced negatives, I want to focus on the positives. In the conservation work I do, I have worked with m…
…and how you came to focus on your specialism. My research specialism is medical image analysis and my interest in this developed by chance. I was in the process of finishing my PhD in Optical Physics at King’s College London and a postdoctoral position became available in the Image Processing Group, also in the Physics Department. Even though this was in a different area to my PhD project, it still used the same research skills – which included p…
…dents that have not flourished in traditional education, offering a radically different approach to learning with no exams and no lectures. Learning is centred around the Team Company, a team of up to 20 students who develop their own entrepreneurial projects and ventures. A team of nine Team Coaches, each bringing a unique set of skills and experience, supports the development of their assigned Team Company and the development of the programme as…
…ay, 27th April, where a panel of speakers will address the importance of media diversity and how the higher education sector can take collective action to ensure greater representation in the academic voices within the media. Speaking at the event will be campaign champions, Professor Vini Lander – Professor of Race and Education, and Director of the Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality at Leeds Beckett University, and Marverine Duffy, Cou…
…m until they turn 25 when all statutory support will stop. Every year, nearly 10,000 young people leave care when they turn 18. Only 20 per cent will remain with their foster carers, with the majority (40 per cent) moving into semi or fully independent accommodation, regardless of whether or not that young person feels ready for that step. If you think back to when you were 18, how ready were you to be fully independent? Most people are fortunate…
…vironmental exposure to asbestos, although 20% of patients have never been directly exposed to the asbestos fibres. In nearly 95% of the cases the life expectancy is poor, with only 9-12 months survival post-diagnosis. We are looking to improve this prognosis by developing a new bioanalytical method of fibre detection and diagnosis. To achieve this, we are using in vitro mesothelioma models and cutting-edge analytical techniques. This project is c…
