EDI Committee Members
The Departmental committee for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion meets every three months to ensure that EDI goals and activities are met.
Meet the Committee
Our commitee is comprised of the following members:
- Dr Silvia Cipiccia - Associate Professor and EDI Committee Chair
- Dr Andre Altmann - Associate Professor
- Naomi Britton - Communications and Marketing Manager
- Bob Chan - Departmental Administrator
- Alexandra Condado De Abreu
- Dr Sean Doherty - Research Fellow
- Dr Michela Esposito - Research Fellow
- Dr Pilar Garcia Souto - Associate Professor (Teaching)
- Dr Charlotte Hagen - RAEng Principal Research Fellow
- Prof Jem Hebden - Professor of Biomedical Optics
- Dr Henry Lancashire - Lecturer
- Su-Lin Lee - Head of WEISS Operations
- Cindy Leung - Hawkes Institute Administrator
- Dr Elly Martin - Principal Research Fellow
- Aoife McDonald-Bowyer
- Prof Peter Munro - Head of Department
- Shaiyra Shaikh - EPSRC Doctoral Prize Research Fellow
- Ewa Shakir - Staffing Administrator
- Dr Alissa Silva - Research Fellow in Biomedical Photoacoustic Imaging Instrumentation
- Robert Stafford-Williams - WEISS Laboratory Manager
- James Vallerine - Departmental Manager
EDI Commitee Working Groups
Our committee is organised into 4 working groups:
- Data - by using data already available as well as with targeted surveys, the data group aims to identify and address barriers and biases faced by our staff and students, to create a community of best practice
- Culture - with the ambition of substantially increasing the diversity of our staff and students, the culture group activity focuses on providing training, creating opportunities for exchanging experiences, widening the participation of underrepresented backgrounds, recognizing and rewarding mentorship.
- Processes - the group works on the implementation of EDI principles in the processes of recruitment, promotion, as well as internal funding distribution and curriculum delivery.
- Communication - communicating and promoting the EDI initiatives, practice and goals is central to the Communication group. The group activity aims to make visible and effective our responsiveness to any worry, to collect new ideas and suggestions, and promote EDI related trainings in collaboration with the culture group and aligned with the Faculty communication strategies.
