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Faculty of Medical Sciences

Meet the current Faculty lead for Medical Sciences, view current and past projects and interventions.

Thiru Surentheran

Dr Thiru Surentheran is Associate Professor (Teaching) and Programme Director at UCL Cancer Institute.

He is an experienced academic in Biomedical Science with teaching capacity at various levels of Higher Education (undergraduate & postgraduate courses) as well as significant research interest in understanding host-pathogen interactions and viral carcinogenesis. His research interest also include exploring novel anti-cancer and anti-microbial agents.

He has been a Student Success Lead since September 2024.

Current work

Intervention

Theme

Outputs, Outcomes and Impact

Status

Recruit student ambassador/s (Year 2) from different programmes. The ambassadors will help develop a survey about bariers to student success and work with student reps to send out to students in Medical Sciences.

Student belonging / Careers

  • Awareness, posters, co-design.
  • Creation of an inclusive learning. environment and building core skills.

Ongoing

Work with Nimesh Patel in MBBS (Data monitoring for Medical School)

Other

  • Hope to receieve date for the IBSE cohort.

Ongoing – By end of June 2025 for this year.

Student Curriculum Partners Programme for modules that are shared across medicine.

MEDC0010 and CINS0014

Curriculum changes - Student Curriculum Partners

  • Report, feedback.
  • Discussion with programme/module leads.
  • Potential changes increasing inclusive curriculum.

Completed 2024-25

Continue with careers panel discussions. Involve UCL careers lead (Apply for student success fund).

Careers - Careers initiatives  and Role models and representation

  • Reports and feedback.
  • Students to meet role models and be able to vision what their career pathways could be.
  • Long-term connections and career prospectives.

Ongoing

Continue raising awareness with committees and ensure membership. Provide updates at the Faculty Medical Sciences monthly meetings, EDI committee and UG steering committee.

Focus group with Vice Dean of Education, Diversity Lead, Careers lead etc.

Staff initiatives -Staff culture change

 

Ongoing

Ensure Chairs of the UG exam boards are engaging with awarding gap data. Analyse specific data relevant for the board.

Staff initiatives - Staff Culture Change

  • Liaise with programme leads and Chairs of exam boards to remind them about engaging with 2022-23 data in the exam boards. Share analysis and recommendations at Faculty Education meeting for feedback from Heads of Education

June 2025

 

Previous work*

  • Developed a workshop on Belonging and Identity to better understand student perspective
  • Organised and ran focus gruops with students to understand student experience
  • Faculty wide seminar series highlighting inspirational role models from BME backgrounds
  • Facilitated a seminar on BME attainment for all student-facing staff
  • Unconscious bias training workshop with BME focus

*previous Faculty Lead was Dr Alvena Kureshi