Avery Cunningham Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, Gb

Managing the team of Regional Coordinators and Student Representatives who are the direct points of contact for student members to support our university based chapters across the USA, UK, Canada & Mexico. I am also responsible for managing and distributing General and Conference funding, managing the membership mailbox, and supporting chapter resource development and engagement programming.

Act as the liason for chapters in the UK and New England to the main organisationLiason for membership team to the leadership and education teamRepresent oSTEM Inc. at events across the UK and work towards founding new oSTEM chapters

Oversee the widening participation project Levelling Up at the University which include streams for Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Materials ScienceOrganisation of site visits for participants of the scheme Management of the Physics Hub for the scheme including arranging and minuting the Steering Group meeting and working on recruitment of new universities to the schemeManaging recruitment of student mentors/tutors to the scheme Managaing communication around scheme

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Worked within the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences to map the framework of provision that enables disabled colleagues to access relevant support promptly. I then worked to identity gaps in provision to reduce the amount of hours lost by research staff each year due to poor implementation of reasonable adjustments. By surveying general staff as well as specific researchers within the College we identified barriers to the implementation of reasonable adjustments to offer recommendations to improve the process for staff. Case studies of other universities provision for disabled staff were also collated to offer further recommendations. I also worked with other students to develop a bank of disability resources for line managers and employees.Finally, I planned an event to showcase disabled staff's research and enable collaboration and mentoring between researchers to be ran in the summer post my contract ending.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Conducted tours and talks to alumni and prospective students for the Physics and Material Science departmentsManaged two Instagram takeovers for the Engineering and Physical Sciences InstagramFeatured in videos advertising the course and student society for Nuclear Engineering by recording week long video logsSelected to be student ambassador for Birmingham in Action campaign launch at the University of Birmingham and Kensington Palace

Great Malvern, Hereford And Worcester, United Kingdom

Malvern

Malvern

Over the course of my placement, I was entrusted with the responsibility of developing a new and novel component of an existing Operational Analysis model to allow the detailed representation of the effect of directed energy (laser) on unmanned air targets. The work involved a significant amount of research into directed energy technologies, physics and atmospheric effects; the abstraction of these to a suitable level of representation within the parent model; and the successful development of a prototype in MATLAB, along with its associated user documentation. The model was successfully demonstrated to the evident delight of the modelling team. My work will be taken forward as a key element in the development of a unique Operational Analysis capability for QinetiQ and, potentially, the wider MOD community.

Malvern

As part of my year industry I took part in trials planning for customer funded projects, including scheduling, risk assessment and accreditation. This included setting up simple trials area covering engineering hygiene, hazard analysis and mitigation. I also created various image processing MATLAB models and researched different techniques to advise and make recommendations on the effectiveness of various algorithms. I also produced GUIs, helped write technical documentation and attended customer and business strategy meetings.

Master Of Science - Msc, Nuclear Decommissioning And Waste Management

Nuclear Radiation, Dosimetry and Shielding, and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle - 79% Processing, Storage & Disposal of Nuclear Waste - 91%

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Nuclear Science And Materials, 2.1 Honours

The course is 60% physics and 40% materials science featuring modules such as Nuclear Physics, Quantum Mechanics and Fracture, Fatigue.

A Level, Mathematics, Physics, Further Maths, A*, B, C

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