👩🏿‍🎓 Currently building and developing key organisational processes and digital infrastructure for the Black in Academia X product. 📄 Alongside our Director, I develop strategies, infrastructure, and products (including events and resources) to help the organisation be successful in the short- and long-term.

Provide expert research support services regarding open research practice and research data management to all researchers (staff and students) at University of Salford Creating and delivering training both general and bespoke for specific disciplines and needsManaging the university's institutional open data repository, Figshare: https://salford.figshare.com/Providing data reports and presenting research insight to evaluate impact with other senior staff Developing researcher engagement strategies and manages projects to advance open research practice across the universityTechnical systems/skills used: Microsoft SharePoint sites, Microsoft Forms, HTML web coding, OpenAPI, Oleeo, DMPonline, Jisc's Sherpa and Online Surveys.

Designed and developed a year-long charitable programme (In2research) to support people from low-income and disadvantaged backgrounds progress to PhDs and research careers. I led a large project involving managing dozens of stakeholders in universities and industry, working with 50 students and their mentors, whilst managing teams to deliver the programme's subprojects. Throughout I managed all aspects of the project, including programme design, programme development, programme promotion, staff and participant recruitment, staff retention/HR practices, participant communications, relationship building (including funder management), event management, data analysis/visualisation, impact and evaluation, logistics, shortlisting, and interviewing.

I created an alumni community via newsletter, events, developing an online platform, and relationship building.The alumni community of In2scienceUK features over 1000 students from disadvantaged backgrounds. In my work, I strove to provide excellent career and development opportunities through relationship building with organisations compatible with our vision.

Designer of online summer course for young people pursuing STEM educationIn my role I develop an accessible and innovative online course in Canvas LMS to ensure that students can access resources, attend live lectures, sign up for workshops, enter competitions, and participate in the online community. I enhance my work through integration with my own code repositories, gamification via digital badges, and an emphasis on strong visual design.

Worked in AQA’s Research and Development team with a specialism in technical writing andmulti-stakeholder communication in research projects about making exams fairer and more modern.This involved conducting systematic literature review, writing research reports, designingquestionnaires and testing environments in schools, managing large datasets, conducting dataanalysis, and reporting findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders within and outside AQA.

Worked in AQA’s Research and Regulation team as a general editor (with a specialism in editing research) and a communications and research impact specialist.This involved editing technical documents, website & intranet editing (in WordPress & Drupal), coordinating content for printed and web distribution, running training workshops, and more.I specialised in content creation (poster/presentation creation, a fortnightly newsletter, business reports, technical documents, etc.) and community building (coordinating culture activities, communication with stakeholders within and outside the business, etc.).

Worked on a project researching the psychology behind driver training to improve road safety.This involved interviewing participants regarding drives, transcribing and coding interviewrecordings, analysing transcripts, and using a driving simulator to test experimental ideas.At Southampton, I also worked as an Exam Invigilator and a Demonstrator for Open Days,presenting driving simulator research to the general public.

I conducted research into human responses to vibration in the Human Factors Research Unit of the Institute of Sound & Vibration Research in University of Southampton's Faculty of Engineering and the Environment as funded by Nissan under the supervision of Professor Michael J. Griffin and Dr Miyuki Morioka. Title: "Discomfort at specific body locations during lateral vibration exposure"People experience vibration in vehicles as a typical occurrence, but we still lack a complete understanding of the human perception and body response to this. It is common to experience discomfort and even pain due to vibration in a vehicle, yet predicting how this occurs or stopping this after it has occurred is not always easy. In many instances of vibration exposure, people will typically localise discomfort to specific body areas – e.g. their back, their shoulders or another location. Yet the research does not provide complete understanding of the experiences of discomfort at certain affected major locations of the body. There is knowledge, however, that the experience and localisation of discomfort to the body changes with different conditions during lateral vibration exposure. Research indicates that the primary location of discomfort changes as a result of different frequencies, magnitudes and duration of exposure of lateral vibration. Furthermore, research shows that different styles of seating can alter the primary location of discomfort. Nonetheless, it is still unclear what mechanisms drive perception of discomfort at specific body regions, and how these are affected by lateral vibration rather than merely static conditions. Understanding of how humans experience discomfort at different body areas during vibration would allow for predictions of sensations in various vibration environments, and could be used to improve environments where humans are exposed to vibration.

The Science Room is a not-for-profit community organisation created to provide interaction between scientists and the wider community. The way in which we do this is by encouraging everyone to ask science questions online and in person - these are then matched to appropriate scientist(s) who will provide a scientific response with podcasts, art, music, videos, and writing at www.sciroom.orgOur primary focus is to reach out to everyone wanting to engage in science, worldwide, with this website as an interactive online platform for dialogue. We also conduct events around Hampshire (UK) where scientists lead a creative discussion on community questions. Our vision with our events is that The Science Room is a portable discussion platform able to be boxed up and taken into any small community in the world.

I founded and led PhDs of Southampton, a social media and community project designed to showcase the people behind PhD research with photography and written stories. This work involved collaborating with student volunteers with a university partnership and funding, running live events alongside providing online content in order to best expand the community. Along with relationship management with the university, my role involved finance and projectmanagement, as we delivered an ambitious social media and events-based project that involved researchers at all six University of Southampton campuses.

I joined TEDxSalford's team in early September to host their fourth event as a Marketting, Logistics and Events Officer. TEDxSalford is a not-for-profit conference held in Salford Quays which hosts talks and discussion-oriented 'breakout sessions' by some of the world's leading intellectuals. It is one of the largest TEDx events in the world with over 1900 attendees taking part in the 2014 event. The event is viewed all over the world via live-stream and its uploaded videos. My role was in marketting, promoting and organising - I hosted many events to promote TEDxSalford in the community, particularly the academic and student communities in Salford/Manchester. I also did some online promotion along with leading and coordinating a number of volunteers in effective promotion. I also organised the logistics of dinners and some collection and coordination with the speakers. On the day of the event, I took reception, PR and welcoming duties, and was involved in troubleshooting the problems faced by the many members of the public.

I founded and ran a project called Café Scientifique Durham City, a platform for talks and discussions about scientific issues in a non-academic setting open to people interested in science from all backgrounds, with another member of the Natural Sciences Society in Durham. I focused on getting speakers, who have included academic scientists from all fields, as well as other science communicators such as from the media. We held these events weekly in Empty Shop in central Durham – usually having a 20 minute talk followed by a discussion or task which is often co-hosted or wholly hosted by myself as I explored a scientific issue to incite communication (usually related to the main speaker’s area). This gives me the ability to talk confidently to people of all kinds, regardless of titles and honorifics, as a main principle of the project is to decrease the divide between the public community and the scientific/academic community, but also between people in academia such as undergraduates and lecturers. Resourcefulness, spontaneity and particularly strong communication skills are also required to hold discussions in a very varied setting given demands of the bar setting and diverse nature of the guests (undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and the public). My partner and I have since handed down Café Scientifique to two new organisers, who continue to run the project with high popularity in Empty Shop.

My work in the lab of Dr. Matthew Haigh was concerned with many psycholinguistics problems, including conditionals, indirect meanings and other language mechanisms. To conduct this research, I was awarded with funding from the Experimental Psychology Society. My roles included writing vignettes (some requiring independent research on linguistic theory), using corpus (an online language database) to extract data from the real world (and cleaning it up for use in an experiment), using the Eyelink 1000 Eyetracker (as well as E-prime and Survey Monkey), and collecting and testing participants in lab settings.Here are a list of one paper currently in review, two papers in preparation and one project that has been presented in a conference (also in press) that are a result of my research in Northumbria: Haigh, M., Kinsella, J., Shepherd, L. & Stewart, A.J. (in preparation). Does prior risk and perceived wealth influence the degree of sympathy for victims of natural disasters?Haigh, M., Taylor, L., & Kinsella, J. (in preparation). Does ‘if’ prime participants to think about the future or the past?Stewart, A. J., Wood, J. S., Le-luan, E., Kinsella, J. & Haigh, M. (in review). “It’s hard to write a good article.” The online comprehension of face saving indirect replies. In: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.Wood, J., Haigh, M., Kinsella, J. & Stewart, A. J. The online comprehension of indirect replies: Evidence from eye-tracking. In: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference 2014, 4th-6th September 2014, Edinburgh, U.K..

I worked as a research assistant to Dr Robert Kentridge, on a study looking into attentional cueing effects on awareness. This involved programming in MATLAB with the CRS visual displays (including ViSaGe) and eye-tracking equipment, as well as collecting data from undergraduate participants in the university. A poster of this work was presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 16th Conference in Brighton in 2012. I then presented the work in my undergraduate dissertation, titled 'Exogenously-cued metacontrast-masked colour primes in generating attention and awareness'.Abstract: The link between consciousness and attentional processes has been challenged by empirical evidence, yet the dissociation of awareness from exogenous (or ‘bottom up’) orienting, where an external cue to fixation ‘captures’ and demands attention to a location not predictive of target location, is less well-documented. Using an exogenous cue (a flash around an upper/lower location) and a pair of metacontrast-masking stimuli, by which two non-overlapping targets (same colour) masked the two colour primes (of both a congruent/incongruent colours), a non-significant trend was found to speedier reaction times to congruent-prime-cued targets. Participants showed in a signal detection task some ability to detect primes, despite lack of awareness of doing so. This is discussed with reference to attention and consciousness theories.

I worked with Dr Paul MacNeilage in the Center for Sensorimotor Research as well as in the Integrated Center for Research and Treatment of Vertigo, Balance, and Oculomotor Disorders (IFB) as part of LMU's hospital, Klinikum Großhadern on a series of projects in computational neuroscience. The program was funded by the Amgen Foundation as part of the Europe Amgen Scholars Programme 2012. My primary project was focused on a computational neuroscientific approach to spatial orientation, titled 'How does the brain know how its host is moving?'Abstract: In humans, vestibular cues contribute to spatial orientation, i.e. self-movement and orientation relative to the environment. Yet how the brain is able to infer states of orientation (linear head motion and head orientation) using ambiguous vestibular stimuli received from the otoliths (linear acceleration) and the canals (angular velocity) is largely understudied. These stimuli and states are measured using a miniature integrated inertial measurement unit (MTx sensor) that consists of an accelerometer, rate gyro and magnetometer to calculate orientation in real time during natural physical activities and to characterise their most common frequencies and amplitudes. The activities performed by participants were: biking, running, walking, football, disc throwing, and dancing. Each is performed for six minutes whilst the MTx sensor is mounted against the temple. The MTx sensor measures the three degrees of freedom of angular velocity, linear acceleration, linear head motion and head orientation. Correlations received after producing histograms and power spectra illustrate how the brain may infer states directly from sensed stimuli for some degrees of freedom. These data provide empirical justification for prior probabilities on linear acceleration, angular velocity and head orientation proposed in the context of Bayesian models of vestibular processing.

I was a founding member of five for the literary e-magazine Inkapture, as inspired by author Fadia Faqir's ideas that we learned from her creative writing class, Several Stories High. I was fully involved in the creation of the first three issues, yet left partway through the fourth due to focusing on my science career. It was a pleasure to edit and enjoy each of the submissions we received (poetry, short story fiction and non-fiction), and I wish the team the best of luck in their endeavours.www.inkapturemagazine.co.uk

My work in the lab of Dr Andrew Stewart focused on cognitive and linguistic biases, investigating the cognitive biases made in judgements regarding money and numbers. I acquired a Nuffield Science Bursary (as given by the British Science Association) to study for 6 weeks at Manchester University, earning a Gold CREST Award in Science. My role included designing questionnaires for participants that asked them to make compound interest estimates (manipulating variables savings/losses and high/low money, in a Latin Square independent measures statistical design) and filler questions. I then tested them in lab settings, and produced results that showed people estimated significantly different mathematical answers depending on whether the numbers were high or low in the equation, fitting cognitive load theory.