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London, England, United Kingdom

London

I lead on the policy and public affairs component of the Health Equals campaign to improve health and wellbeing by changing the narrative and perception of the wider determinants of health.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Maternity cover heading up the UK policy team.Responsibilities include:
• Oversight of working groups and implementation activities, including projects on COVID-19 and clinical research in the NHS.
• Oversight of the FORUM programme of events and associated network.
• Representing the Academy in engagement with senior stakeholders.
• Ensure team performance with suitable reward and recognition and training and development.

• Manage the FORUM programme of science policy events and the associated FORUM network of stakeholder organisations across industry, academia, the NHS and beyond.
• Lead on the policy team's engagement with industry including supporting colleagues in engaging with industry stakeholders.
• Lead on the Academy's health data and data-driven technologies policy, including engagement with Government and the wider data/digital sector.

• Manage long-term policy projects that develop evidence based policy recommendations through stakeholder engagement and expert working groups.
• Coordinate the Academy’s FORUM programme of high impact policy events covering a diverse range of scientific and policy relevant issues such as regulation, evidence and data, funding and investment, skills and.
• Liaise and engage with stakeholders across academia, industry, NHS, charity and regulatory sectors to build… Show more
• Liaise and engage with stakeholders across academia, industry, NHS, charity and regulatory sectors to build innovative policy for biomedical research and healthcare.
• Scoping and horizon scanning of pertinent policy issues through evidence synthesis, literature review and stakeholder engagement.
• Produce high quality, impactful policy reports directed at key stakeholders. Show less

London, United Kingdom

EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) 1+3 course. First year MRes was awarded a Distinction. Worked on Single Cell Proteomics of post-translational modifications of p53 within the Microfluidic Antibody Capture chip technology (DOI: 10.1039/C0LC00613K) under the supervision of Prof. David Klug, Prof. Ed Tate and Prof. Oscar Ces. Work produced a publication.

Houses Of Parliament

Three month RSC funded fellowship writing a parliamentary briefing on the topic of the Carbon Footprint of Heat Generation (see http://goo.gl/sw7aWZ). Writing the briefing involved interviewing a range of stakeholders and developing the policy issues in to a concise and non-technical document that could be used by non-experts to educate themselves and.

Graduated with a First from the University of St Andrews. Final year Master's project in asymmetric organocatalysis, titled 'Asymmetric isothiourea mediated organocatalytic formation of di-esters via ammonium enolates' under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Smith. The thesis contributed towards a publication (see below).

Horsham, West Sussex

12 month industrial placement as a Medicinal Chemist. Role involved design and synthesis of small molecules for novel targets for the treatment of the symptoms of chronic respiratory and gastro-intestinal conditions. Additional experience with computer assisted drug design, combinatorial techniques and extensive structural elucidation and spectroscopic.

Villigen, Switzerland

3 month summer internship in Radioanalytics. Analysis of radiocarbon levels in organic plant matter for environmental protection purposes using liquid scintillation counting. Additional experience with isotope ratio mass spectrometry and solid-state gamma spectroscopy, as well as off site air, soil and water sample collections.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Chemical Biology

Mchem With External Placement, Chemistry, First

Education record