KBA Participants - Past & Present

Meet the inaugural KBA cohort: a dynamic group of UCL researchers and professional staff driving academic-policy engagement.

2024 cohort

The participants are an interdisciplinary group from 8 of UCL’s 11 Faculties, including both research and professional service staff across various career stages and with diverse policy engagement experience. They are:

Dr Meghna Nag Chowdhuri, Research Fellow – Education, Practice & Society, UCL Institution of Education 

Dr Sarah Dryhurst, Lecturer in Risk Perception and Risk Communication – Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR), UCL Faculty of Mathematical & Physical Sciences 

Prof Shirli Gilbert, Professor of Modern Jewish History – Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, UCL Faculty of Arts & Humanities 

Eva Lamorghese, Senior Global Engagement and Impact Manager – Institute for Global Prosperity Bartlett Faculty for the Built Environment’s Institute for Global Prosperity 

Siyabonga Ndwandwe, Research Fellow in Health Economics (HERCULES Project) – Research Department for Primary Care and Population Health, UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences

Miriam Nweze, Faculty Impact Coordinator, Mechanical Engineering – UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences 

Prof Caroline Oliver, Associate Professor in Sociology – Education, Practice & Society, UCL Institution of Education 

Dr Alexandra Perovic, Associate Professor in Linguistics – UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences 

Dr Igor Tkalec, Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Social Data Science – Department of Geography and Social Data Institute, UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences 

Carol Vigurs, Senior Research Fellow – EPPI-Centre, UCL Social Research Institute 